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….one giant leap for his publishing career.

Oh yes my friends, I am no longer a person who says they want to be a writer and pretends to be a writer and when asked if I am a writer I can say with a coy smile, “Oh yes, I am a writer.”

As my new Editor told me in an email I just received not five minutes ago, today I just lost my publishing virginity..

And before you ask, oh yes it was good for me.

What started as a somewhat New Years Resolution for me to become a paid Published Journalist/Writer is now one step closer to realization.  As Neil Armstrong was stepping onto new territory, new worlds, I so am stepping into new territory and new worlds.  No long I am sitting on the sidelines of life saying “I wonder if.” I can now pick myself up run onto that field and be a part of the game.  I may not be the Quarterback, but hey at least I'm not a Sub sitting on the bench.

How is this feat possible you ask?

Well, for the past few weeks there has been something brewing on the Snowball home front that I've been dying to tell everyone here on Vox, but I didn't want to talk about it, if for whichever reason it was not going to happen.

As I mentioned before I got a volunteer job writing the blog over at labrats.tv.  I love it, so far I have made a total of 10 posts since the 8th of December and I'm happy about that.

Now cut to a few weeks later and I'm thinking about trying to become a Freelance Writer.  After sending emails and applications up the wazoo applying for Writing jobs, no nibbles.  Nothing.  I felt like a lonely fisherman saying he was a fisherman but catching no fish.  There was only one hope and that was my friend Andy Walker.  He owns his own Technology help site called Cyberwalker and he has articles about how to make the technology in your life that much easier.  So, I email him up, seeing if there was some suggestions he could make as to how to go about being a freelance writer.  I even asked if Cyberwalker was needing writers.  He told me that although he could not right now recommend any particular job at the moment he did recommend working for Cyberwalker and then at least that will get me started.  So I took him up on his offer.   It's not paid, however a person has to start somewhere.  Now, I just need to keep on writing so that by the end of this year I can write on this blog that I am an official Paid Published Writer.  Won't that kick a little ass?

Cut to to the present with a flashy Cross Dissolve and as of today, January 17, 2007 my very first article as a Tech Journalist is now online!!!!!!!!

You can check it out here and see for yourself.

Now as my editor Peter just told me in a response to the email he sent me five minutes ago, I must go and write, write and write some more, eh?

Wow, this is a hawesome feeling!

Toodles!

Steve “Snowball” Saylor

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