By Cheryl Rushing

As part of my plan to show my willingness to actually do this thing called writing, I decided to do something that might be considered a bit drastic: I started applying for freelance jobs.

I get emails from several different sources that include writing opportunities, but for some reason I just end up leaving them in my email with all of the other junk, then end up deleting them en masse a few weeks later.  Perhaps I should open and read those?

So I did.  I applied for two separate opportunities, as well as for what looked to be a content mill.  The content mill work looked to be the most promising, though it requires an application process to get started.

I am a darn good writer, so I wasn’t too concerned.  The fact that they made me send a resume left me cold, since I don’t have a writing resume per se.  I just have my regular work resume.  I sent it anyway.  The writing speaks for itself, right?

Apparently not.  Within about 4 hours they e-mailed me back to say “Thank you for submitting your writer application to xxxxxx. After careful review of your resume and writing sample, we are unable to offer you writing assignments at this time.”

So much for that.

Trying and failing still counts as trying, though, right?

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