Free Words
Imagine words untamed,
without publishers looking over their shoulders.
Writers wild, readers in charge,
books, stories and poems for free.
This is the place.
This site presents writing that has not yet been published by conventional means.
Join to read or to showcase your own writing. The only requirement is that writing be imaginative. So, hopefully, there will never be anything boring on this site.
I remember attending the Maui Writers Conference one year when we lived there and hearing some big wig from a Publishing House say that his job was to make it as difficult as possible for first time authors to get published.
I never forgot that. I’m sure it’s provided some impetus to get this site up.
If you have stumbled on this site as it is being constructed, I would love to hear from you. If you are a writer with something finished and you would like to post it here, let me know so we can discuss it.
What I am really aiming for is to have a whole lot of writing on this site, all free to readers as pdf downloads. AND, to give readers the option to purchase with one click (everyone will be a member so their info will already be in the system). Imagine, being able to sell your unpublished book to anyone… all they do is click.
The back-side of that is an agreement with a Print on Demand company who will immediately bundle up the book, print it and mail it off.
There’s something tantalizing about this idea – inviting readers to decide for themselves what gets published and what doesn’t.
I’m hoping this will also become a meeting place for unpublished writers and that we can celebrate each other’s wins – like, one of us getting published.
It may also grow to be a great prospecting site for agents and publishers. Imagine them surfing content, looking for books to represent or print. Of course, we will have the rip off issue to worry about, someone scooping our ideas. But, as we know, ideas are easier than execution, so, I’m not worrying about that very much.
I hope to hear from you, enjoy the site as it develops.
Samurai Editing
Quick editing via email.
It’s web copy, it’s an email, it’s a letter, a memo, song lyric, essay or column. And, you’re stuck. Hopelessly stuck.
It happens to all of us. We get emotionally embroiled / paralyzed, the brain fog rolls in, and we’re stuck. With a deadline. So, we stare at the wall, pace the room, inhale, pour another one, bargain with God.
But what you really need is a professional writer, someone detached from your problem solving who can apply imagination to some instant word smithing. I call this getting your writing “imagifi’d.”
For example: You’ve got to respond to an email and you’re struggling with how to remain politically correct and be honest. That can burn an hour and leave you hesitating over the SEND key.
Don’t send it to them, send it to me. I’ll revise it and email back within 24 hours, often quicker. I charge a dollar a minute and I can often imagifi something short in twenty minutes or less. Of course, everything remains confidential (I erase files after each job unless instructed not to do so and keep no copies) and, best of all, my billing provides what I call “customer control.”
Customer control payment means that you decide what my work is worth to you. I invoice you, according to the time the job took. But you massage that number. You may send me less, you may send me more, it’s up to you. And you never pay a cent for something that has no value to you. So, there’s absolutely no risk.
Here’s how Imagifi’ing works:
- Download and fill out my one pager (link this to word doc ImagifiForm, coming soon) and email back, along with your copy (200 words or less).
- You’ll get an email confirmation when I receive the piece (with an estimate of the time I’ll budget).
- You email a comment about the budget (fine, you want less, you want more).
- I email when I actually begin working on your piece.
- I email the imagifi’d version shortly after that, with my invoice.
- You review the work, pay the bill.
Get the Form (click to the word doc, coming soon)
Before and After Samples (click to a pdf, not ready yet.