WDC25 - Day one

Blog week entry

I have been with WDC long enough to no longer hide behind my pen name. I am blogging from my secondary account which is in my real name - scook - the s is for Sue if you have not met me before.

The Abba song 'Money, money, money' comes to mind when I think about the ups and downs of my time here. Mainly the lack of it by the way. When I joined in July 2013 I was skint. I was also bored and lonely, my daughter having just left home. I found friends here. My free account portfolio was soon full so I moved around the site chatting to anyone and every one. I had found a new family here in cyberspace.

By September I had saved enough pennies for a basic membership. My internet came from a hotspot on my phone or sometimes the local library. (It's not easy when a group of pre-schoolers are having rhyme time a few feet away.) I soon learned to save often. There is nothing worse than getting half way through a story when the internet cuts out.

2020 was a real roller coaster. When the pandemic hit my provider gave free internet to NHS workers and the rest of us had to pay more for less. I got my pension later that year and I could finally get proper broadband. I made the most of it, writing, writing, writing while I had the chance. I moved to upgraded membership to allow for my prolific work.

In the beginning I wrote anything and everything. I entered multiple contests, won a few, lost a few - hey ho. You can't win if you don't enter. I entered NanoWriMo every year but never quite made the wordcount. Eventually I ran out of book space. A big decision - premium or secondary. Money reared its head again and I chose the latter.

The one mistake I made was to sign up for Unstabled writers. I burned myself out trying to write the equivalent of four Nanos in a year. I've still got novels that need to be finished. They are on my bucket list. Now if this laptop will just keep working until they are finished ...

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