![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mmerriamSo I got a few (three) takers on the "ask me a question post."
Here are your answers:
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pameladean: I first started back in the 1980s. I got some nice, personal rejections from George Scithers and Ed Ferman amongst others. They both tried to encourage and coach me, but I stopped as my first marriage crumbled (remind me to tell you the story about my old Underwood #5 typewriter, if you haven't heard it). I took up mainstream fic and poetry in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I also wrote some non-fiction. Little of it survives today, but I did make a decent number of poetry sales, appearing in lit journals and such. I put it away again, mostly because I was working in a vacuum out in rural Oklahoma. I got serious about it after my vision faded to the point that I could no longer do the type of work I had in the past. This time I had a spouse who supported my crazy; encouraged it, even. I'm dedicated to it because I love it and its one of the few marketable skills I have.
pezwitch: Lighthouse Keeper. Which would drive careswen crazy, so it's a good thing I'm not.
hkneale: Allergies or other health concerns. And then I'd still try to find a way around it, because I'm stubborn like that.
If anyone else wants to play, you can still comment on the old post and I'll answer
Here are your answers:
pameladean: I first started back in the 1980s. I got some nice, personal rejections from George Scithers and Ed Ferman amongst others. They both tried to encourage and coach me, but I stopped as my first marriage crumbled (remind me to tell you the story about my old Underwood #5 typewriter, if you haven't heard it). I took up mainstream fic and poetry in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I also wrote some non-fiction. Little of it survives today, but I did make a decent number of poetry sales, appearing in lit journals and such. I put it away again, mostly because I was working in a vacuum out in rural Oklahoma. I got serious about it after my vision faded to the point that I could no longer do the type of work I had in the past. This time I had a spouse who supported my crazy; encouraged it, even. I'm dedicated to it because I love it and its one of the few marketable skills I have.pezwitch: Lighthouse Keeper. Which would drive careswen crazy, so it's a good thing I'm not.hkneale: Allergies or other health concerns. And then I'd still try to find a way around it, because I'm stubborn like that.If anyone else wants to play, you can still comment on the old post and I'll answer
