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millionreasonsI have some paid writing work thanks to my exceptional networking skills chum Tanya. £8 an hour, which is less than the people putting carrots in the bags earned at my last job, but still, I have just been given £12 for sitting on my bum for 90 minutes writing about cycling, Naomi Klein and whether the shape of a country influences its national identity and politics. It's for a linguistics textbook, so students can pull apart the various components of the sentences. When I worked in a deaf school, one of the tasks I enjoyed was helping the deaf teachers put together good sentences for school documents* (although it used to annoy me when I had to re-draft the (hearing) Deputy Head's letters), and I thought then that I'd quite like to write sentences for a living.
*profoundly deaf people whose first language is BSL often have poor English writing skills.
*profoundly deaf people whose first language is BSL often have poor English writing skills.
