VioletL's profile

I got my BA in English Lit decades ago and have always been a writer wannabe.  I have a nice fat sheaf of rejection letters to attest to my attempts to get published, some with  encouraging handwritten notes on them.  I have published 50 or so short articles in workplace publications and I’ve edited several books. It was a blast getting fan letters for eBay ads I wrote a while back. Also, I was lucky enough to get a scholarship to a writing workshop in France. Most of the writing I do now is professional reports and there are a lot of those.  When I joined Urbis a while back, I hoped it would get me writing something else again.  It did, to the point that I had no time for Urbis. I have written a novel of about 80K words, that is now in …

I got my BA in English Lit decades ago and have always been a writer wannabe.  I have a nice fat sheaf of rejection letters to attest to my attempts to get published, some with  encouraging handwritten notes on them.  I have published 50 or so short articles in workplace publications and I’ve edited several books. It was a blast getting fan letters for eBay ads I wrote a while back. Also, I was lucky enough to get a scholarship to a writing workshop in France. Most of the writing I do now is professional reports and there are a lot of those.  When I joined Urbis a while back, I hoped it would get me writing something else again.  It did, to the point that I had no time for Urbis. I have written a novel of about 80K words, that is now in the polishing phase. I think, in a couple of weeks (or months—however long it takes to hear back from my proofreaders), it is almost ready to submit for publication. Whew!