Unusual Opportunities Knock

Cleaning my desk a couple of days ago, I came across three e-mails that I'd printed out and put on the rising tide of papers on my desk. Each e-mail held the possibility of more writing work, but each was unusual in some way. At first I dismissed them, assuming that since they came over the transom, they must be bogus. Who would want to hire me anyway! In the process of the desk-sweep they came to my attention, and I've followed up on each one. And that is in no small part due to Tahir Shah's blog. He wrote that writers need to keep open to new opportunities and to have many projects going at once. One never knows what is going to grow into something worthwhile.