One and a Half Spinsters in a Dorm Room
Hi all!
I'm Samantha, 3/4 Spinsters and half of the partnership One and a Half Spinsters. Who wants to hear a fun origin story? None of you? Then why are you here?
One and a Half Spinsters has progressed from a mere idea in an astounding amount of time. Some time in the summer, I had the idea to do writing commissions. I knew a lot of people these days have managed to make their money through art commissions. However, I was still at the point in my art where I was not fully comfortable with the idea of trying to sell my art. However, if there's one thing I can do, it's write (hopefully)! People seem to enjoy reading things I wrote, including essays. With essays my main problem is that proofreaders would enjoy reading it, but remark on how informal the language is. I have too much love for colloquialisms, as well as for the word colloquialisms itself. I'm off track. Where was I?
That's right. The bare bud of an idea. Anyway school started. I go to a magnet school way in the North, a lovely little community complete with dorms, snow, and biting wind. My roommate, Grace, and I were already writing a novel together. We had figured out that we enjoyed playing with ideas together, and over the course of the previous year had created a world that begged to be written down. I figured if I was going to do this writing commission thing, I might as well do it with her. The moment I mentioned it, ideas started flying. We could not just do short story commissions, we could also do children's books. Why not make an Etsy shop for it? Grace pulled up a self publishing site that we could use for printing the children's books and started talking prices.
What about a name? If it were just me, I could have used my screen name Saminthea, which I use for everything. But it was the two of us. In the previous year, we had decided that, despite the fact we both had boyfriends, we each had multitudes of qualities normally associated with the stereotype Spinster. We were both 3/4 spinster, and between the two of us we made 1 1/2 spinsters. Grace suggested it for the partnership and I was hooked.
I am sorry to say I have done very little in the way of seeing my whim to reality. Grace was the one who drove us, who reminded me to make a PayPal, who organized our Etsy, who researched taxes and legality. I've drawn some pictures and organized my Quotev.
I look forward to serving the customers of One and a Half Spinsters.
~Samantha
I'm Samantha, 3/4 Spinsters and half of the partnership One and a Half Spinsters. Who wants to hear a fun origin story? None of you? Then why are you here?
One and a Half Spinsters has progressed from a mere idea in an astounding amount of time. Some time in the summer, I had the idea to do writing commissions. I knew a lot of people these days have managed to make their money through art commissions. However, I was still at the point in my art where I was not fully comfortable with the idea of trying to sell my art. However, if there's one thing I can do, it's write (hopefully)! People seem to enjoy reading things I wrote, including essays. With essays my main problem is that proofreaders would enjoy reading it, but remark on how informal the language is. I have too much love for colloquialisms, as well as for the word colloquialisms itself. I'm off track. Where was I?
That's right. The bare bud of an idea. Anyway school started. I go to a magnet school way in the North, a lovely little community complete with dorms, snow, and biting wind. My roommate, Grace, and I were already writing a novel together. We had figured out that we enjoyed playing with ideas together, and over the course of the previous year had created a world that begged to be written down. I figured if I was going to do this writing commission thing, I might as well do it with her. The moment I mentioned it, ideas started flying. We could not just do short story commissions, we could also do children's books. Why not make an Etsy shop for it? Grace pulled up a self publishing site that we could use for printing the children's books and started talking prices.
What about a name? If it were just me, I could have used my screen name Saminthea, which I use for everything. But it was the two of us. In the previous year, we had decided that, despite the fact we both had boyfriends, we each had multitudes of qualities normally associated with the stereotype Spinster. We were both 3/4 spinster, and between the two of us we made 1 1/2 spinsters. Grace suggested it for the partnership and I was hooked.
I am sorry to say I have done very little in the way of seeing my whim to reality. Grace was the one who drove us, who reminded me to make a PayPal, who organized our Etsy, who researched taxes and legality. I've drawn some pictures and organized my Quotev.
I look forward to serving the customers of One and a Half Spinsters.
~Samantha
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