researching reality

One thing I am working on is learning about the publishing industry by reading quite a bit from authors, literary agencies, and other professionals in the business. It has given me a bit of insight as to what I should expect, how I should act, and what I should focus myself on. I have never wavered myself on writing fantasy novels. It is my interest in reading and gives me the ability to be as creative as I want. But my focus in editing was general. I did not know how many different types of editors there were. Of course I still have a lot of researching to do, so easily I could change my mind some time in the future.

My ideas are to find a job in a publishing house as an editor. I think that my interests (and hopefully strengths) are leaning towards the line editor type of career. I like critiquing the writing itself, the plot, characters, setting. Of course, that is if I am even describing the right type of editor. If I cannot find this sort of job in a publishing house, I can always be a freelance editor, possibly. However, I still need to research more.

Reading blogs by those already in the industry also helps me in my writing career. I shouldn't expect to have agents and publishers drop at my feet for my novels. I have to work extremely hard to get them to look at my work and think they could use it. I probably won't be able to survive on my writing career. But even though my reality check helps me to not expect quite so much, I will still try. To assume I am the best on earth will only hamper my career.

So I need to research, research, and research some more. It's the best thing to immerse myself into the industry.

the editor mouse pokes her nose out of the mousehole for the first time

If you've managed to find this small little corner of space that is inhabited by this little mouse, then I welcome you! I am an author in training, and editor in training, and what I mean by in training is that I am no where near to being any sort of published author or professional editor yet. I'm mostly just a hopeful that is working to one day have the title of author and editor behind my name. It might not happen but we're all hopeful for such a dream, right?

So if you happen to stick around for a while, you'll get to see me struggle through my attempts to become a REAL writer as I flounder through the wonderful days that are college in hopes that maybe, just maybe, I'll be picked up by a kind company to let me look at and destroy other people's books to make them (hopefully) better. Won't that be fun? But that's a long time in the future, I think. I first have to learn to write properly and what makes a book good.

Just maybe, maybe, I might actually succeed. But until then, I'm just a small little in training mouse with a small space to record my journey.