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Google is very useful sometimes. But still I think that if you don’t know what you’re looking for you probably won’t find it. Any way I would like to get something published eventually so I was nosing around the internet looking at publishers and so forth. I found quite a lot of nothing much. Several places charged you a bit of money to have your book published then gave you royalties if and when the book sold. I also found a book I might want to get, it’s a comprehensive guide on publishers. I suppose the important thing is to write something worth getting published and since longer books are the type that get published I probably should work on one or two. However, many shorter stories shoved together into a collection could also work.

For example perhaps a story that followed the adventures of a prince who later becomes a king and then has seven sons and then the story follows the adventures of all of the seven sons and perhaps their children. That could be a long and confusing book. So instead I think that just inventing a kingdom and having several stories that take place in different parts of that kingdom would probably be best and I’ll probably write up a lot of short stories in the near future.

At some point I do want to have a book published but I am not in a hurry and I will definitely do a lot of writing and research before I submit anything. Also I am well aware of the great and mighty Letter of Rejection. You know “The Great and Mighty Letter of Rejection” would make a good book title, so would “Ten Easy Steps to Attain Great Wealth”. And the ten steps would probably be
1. Work hard
2. Start a savings account
3. Find ways to save money, like home schooling, eating healthy inexpensive food, not going to the movies and just wait until the DVD comes out, Don’t go to the mall and find a very nice thrift store, don’t eat candy since it is expensive and makes your dental bill go up.
4. Work some more
5. Be patient while your savings account grows
6. Still work and save
7. Early to bed Early to rise makes a man healthy wealthy and wise
8. Consider doing profitable hobbies, like making things that sell for a profit.
9. Don’t worry, number ten is near so just continue working hard.
10. Eventually you may Attain Great Wealth but it all depends on your definition of great wealth, in olden days and to certain people a quarter was great wealth and even a million dollars is no longer considered great wealth to some.
MORAL: It is better to live a happy and contented life than to be filthy rich and unhappy.

Now how did I get on this subject? I suppose it doesn’t really matter, but I do have a lot of writing planned, I might do some more commercials, they’re rather fun but I do need to start memorizing my lines. Any way, maybe a year or so from now there will be a book out with “By Elizabeth J. Von Fange” on it that can be bought in stores and maybe I’ll actually get some money back from my writing. But I will probably always write for the pleasure of writing, and the pleasure of seeing people read what I write and the pleasure of getting compliments on it and maybe later, for the pleasure of getting a check for it!

Oh, and I am beginning typing class(Translation, I’m using Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing again) so I hope I’ll be able to type really fast soon. Currently I am at about fifty words per minute but I’d like to be faster.