Mar
The QRW Makes a Schedule
I like knowing what to expect. Call me a creature of habit, but I like knowing that almost every Wednesday night I have date night with J, that Friday nights we’re probably going to order sushi, that Saturday afternoons we hit LaBamba for a burrito lunch and then go book shopping. Patterns and routines can be boring if you let them, and it may be surprising to see someone that enjoys being quietly rebellious profess a love for habit. But I find routine can be constantly made new and exciting, while still being comforting.
Same goes for my web reading and blog visiting. I like knowing what to expect. I like knowing, for example, that although the insights will change and tidbits differ, I will find something freelance friendly and helpful everyday at Freelance Switch or Freelance Folder. I will find snarkiness and feminist quirk aplenty at Jezebel. And the list goes on throughout my blogroll.
I want to offer that same sort of quiet joy and comfort to my readers here at QuietRebelWriter. My goal with this blog is to spark freelance success for writers and creativity for all, by showing ways to flout the rules and thereby enrich your life. I want to be on your daily reading list, zipping into your RSS reader through subscription and into your Firefox or Explorer. So I’m telling you what you can expect. I’m telling you now, clearly and decisively, with excitement and a little scaredy-cat flutterings, what you will find here, and when.
Need more background? Wondering where the hell you just landed? Here’s some help, and here, and here.
Quiet Rebel Writer List of Contents:
Monday: Mondays are tough: ease into the week with a Monday Date, using lyrics, excerpts, poems, scenes and more to break the block and get a creative kick.
Tuesday: Freelancing lifestyle, issues, frustrations and joys in Tuesday’s Freelance Frenzy. Plus, tune in for a handy link round-up. Some of the best and the brightest from the past week.
Wednesday: Live vicariously through my attempts to get that damn novel published in Publishing Aspirations, and learn about tips, resources, and more in your own efforts. Plus, find a book to add to your case with Books to Read.
Thursday: Marketing successes and failures in Marketing Maven. Read about the transcendent power of writing with Writers who Matter.
Friday: At the end of week, all restraint is gone. It’s time for a well-mannered Rant, plus the new crazy sweeping the nation (or at least my office): Word Porn.
Until tomorrow.
UPDATE March 14: Ah geez. So the first week of the schedule is done, and I biffed it. I missed a few promised postings. Stupid loft closing. It eats up some time to own a piece of Chicago, all 1600 sq ft of it. But at least you know my plan, dear readers. And I’ll do my best to stick to it. 
I’m so envious of your ability to have a planned posting schedule. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t: art imitates life on my blog, so it’s somewhat chaotic and random most of the time. It’s also a good way to build unconscious anticipation in your readers, as I know that there’s going to be some well-written, slightly passive-aggressive rant waiting in my feedbox.
You’re such a good writer that you caught me off-guard with the sentence leading up to Word Porn. Since I don’t have to mentally edit your writing while reading it, I envisioned a recently released (or escaped!) person sweeping your office–all the while plotting on how s/he was going to extend her cleaning domination to the entirety of the Nation. That followed by pr0n…I’m sure there’s at least a short story to be had out of it. :p
I hope you find that last bit amusing and not mean, but the image was too ripe for me not to share it.
March 15th, 2008 at 9:44 amAbsolutely, that was amusing. When I read it again, I too was wondering where the hell it was heading
Now I’m thinking I should leave the mistake there so others can get your image too!
March 16th, 2008 at 2:12 pm