The Dangers of Full Time Freelancing (add your own!)

[Will]

Example #2 was a "writer's boot camp" where the top two or three applicants would supposedly get freelancing gigs from a major d20 company. To my knowledge no one ever got a gig.

Maaan. Did that happen recently? I received an invite to a 'writer's boot camp' thing a few months ago, and gave it a pass. I'm wondering if I dodged a bullet.

 

[HellHound]

LOL.

I hate telivision enough that the thought of turning it on never even crosses my mind. Honestly... I thought of it when I read this thread, Wil, and it seemed a COMPLETELY alien and strange thing to do.

On the other hand, bootin gup the PS2 and loading in Dance Dance Revolution Max 2 and bouncing around on the dance pads for an hour and a half straight, that doesn't seem odd to me at all. Good thing I am alone at home... 300 pounds of Hound "dancing" to DDR pop tunes is not a pretty sight. Denise nearly died laughing when she first heard the game announcer yell out "You're no ordinary fellow!" as I'm desperately trying to do a 12 step combo with four quarter-beats in it.

The big time-waster for me is of course the forums.

And surfing web radios looking for JUST the right mix of music for writing.

 

[Will]

I realize this still isn't quite in the spirit of the thread, but the other thing I love is hearing people chat about a book I worked on, months after it came out, and wondering what it's like.

Since I don't have any copies. Grumble.

As for working from home... hmm. Other than waste time on fora, I'm generally swiffering or doing laundry in a desperate bid to justify my being at home...

 

[Belen]

I loved the ability to read who novels while waitng for your partner (that you had no choice in choosing) to turn in work. Then the guy does turn something in and you have to rewrite etc and he claims it as his own.

I ranted a lot on EnWorld when I was going through that.