I thought I’d have nothing to say, but then I have to celebrate those small writing successes. Actually this was a big one. I successfully updated all of my blogs today. I was spreading the Mother’s Day greeting on all my blogs. Certainly there were a few other places I would have loved to write but to update all my blogs in one day, one twice even and Penned in Vain on top of that, is a great success.
If you visit this week and want to catch up on the writely applied Mother’s Day celebration visit:
Writely Applied
Big Shoes
God’s Fingers
The Inside Soap
TVScape
Happy Mother’s Day!
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Monday, May 4, 2009
The Writely Applied To Do List
My writing and blogging to-do list is long this week. I’ve less time for writing and blogging but want to write fast and get it done in whatever tiny amount of time I can seek out.
A few forums I frequent each have the dedicated members who post their writing or blogging goals for the week or month. I need writing goals for each day since a day can go by fast and before you know it that week or month is gone and sometimes I have nothing to show for it. That has to change for me as I am on a goal to be writely applied. I want to apply what little bit of energy I can to my writing each day.
My biggest goal for the past weekend was to launch my Christian blog God’s Fingers. It didn’t work out for me since there is a bug in the backend giving me trouble but my heart is filled with words I hope to get out soon.
What to do? What to do? At the very least to fill the time I wasn’t using to trouble shoot the problem, I monetized our dear Penned In Vain here with some Amazon banners and widgets. Hey, what is a writing blog without book ads? Time to shop people!
So, instead of doing much writing this weekend when I wasn’t working, I did some little blogging duties, like setting up advertising pages on my network blogs and adding some products to sell in my sidebars. Now I’ve contemplated my busy week.
So name your poison. Daily, weekly or monthly to-do lists? Or all of the above?
A few forums I frequent each have the dedicated members who post their writing or blogging goals for the week or month. I need writing goals for each day since a day can go by fast and before you know it that week or month is gone and sometimes I have nothing to show for it. That has to change for me as I am on a goal to be writely applied. I want to apply what little bit of energy I can to my writing each day.
My biggest goal for the past weekend was to launch my Christian blog God’s Fingers. It didn’t work out for me since there is a bug in the backend giving me trouble but my heart is filled with words I hope to get out soon.
What to do? What to do? At the very least to fill the time I wasn’t using to trouble shoot the problem, I monetized our dear Penned In Vain here with some Amazon banners and widgets. Hey, what is a writing blog without book ads? Time to shop people!
So, instead of doing much writing this weekend when I wasn’t working, I did some little blogging duties, like setting up advertising pages on my network blogs and adding some products to sell in my sidebars. Now I’ve contemplated my busy week.
So name your poison. Daily, weekly or monthly to-do lists? Or all of the above?
Saturday, May 2, 2009
My Freelance Writing Story
Tick, tock, tick, tock…a month goes by and I’m back…now what was I saying about years go by?
Lucky for me a husband and three children later didn’t kill the dream. What has happened to me in that time? Writing in dribs and drabs, volunteering desktop publishing and creative church endeavors, some small but relevant stuff and then one day my daughter asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. She was interviewing me for a school project and I was in the midst of considering work at home options related to previous admin and database management work. I knew I didn’t want to go back to an office with a toddler, a preschooler, a middle-schooler and a husband that travels a lot.
“What do I want to be when I grow up?”
“…a writer.”
She said, “That’s cool” and I thought yeah, that’s cool.
Needless to say, my work at home job search took a u-turn from the original plan of web research, etc. I was going to be a cool mom. Yeah, let’s see how long that lasts.
Coolness wasn’t part of the dream, just doing what I love. So I set forth on a realistic plan, ever with that practical bent, I thought I’ll get my feet wet with online writing and ease myself back into creative writing.
To my surprise I started with creative writing when I partnered with a gentleman to write scripts for web animation Christian stories. We are still in the start-up phase but Purpleseed will come to fruition in good time.
I then immediately moved from the Telemarketing forum at WAHM.com to the WAHM’s Who Write forum. Somewhere around that time while I was looking for writing jobs on Craigslist (where I found my Purpleseed gig) daily and had just started visiting Deborah Ng’s Freelance Writer Jobs, Freelance writer Sue LaPointe of Working Writer Happy Writer was looking for a handful of guinea pigs at WAHM to give the recommendations in her new book on becoming a freelance writer a spin for thirty days. I was one of the lucky guinea pigs.
If there were three things I would advise you do to become a freelance writer, besides write, I would have to say visit WAHM, Freelance Writer Jobs Network and Sue LaPointe at Working Writer Happy Writer and Build a Thriving Writing Business. These are great places to start. And if you have somewhat of a creative bent like me add Absolute Write to that list. Whatever you do, start making a list.
Lucky for me a husband and three children later didn’t kill the dream. What has happened to me in that time? Writing in dribs and drabs, volunteering desktop publishing and creative church endeavors, some small but relevant stuff and then one day my daughter asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. She was interviewing me for a school project and I was in the midst of considering work at home options related to previous admin and database management work. I knew I didn’t want to go back to an office with a toddler, a preschooler, a middle-schooler and a husband that travels a lot.
“What do I want to be when I grow up?”
“…a writer.”
She said, “That’s cool” and I thought yeah, that’s cool.
Needless to say, my work at home job search took a u-turn from the original plan of web research, etc. I was going to be a cool mom. Yeah, let’s see how long that lasts.
Coolness wasn’t part of the dream, just doing what I love. So I set forth on a realistic plan, ever with that practical bent, I thought I’ll get my feet wet with online writing and ease myself back into creative writing.
To my surprise I started with creative writing when I partnered with a gentleman to write scripts for web animation Christian stories. We are still in the start-up phase but Purpleseed will come to fruition in good time.
I then immediately moved from the Telemarketing forum at WAHM.com to the WAHM’s Who Write forum. Somewhere around that time while I was looking for writing jobs on Craigslist (where I found my Purpleseed gig) daily and had just started visiting Deborah Ng’s Freelance Writer Jobs, Freelance writer Sue LaPointe of Working Writer Happy Writer was looking for a handful of guinea pigs at WAHM to give the recommendations in her new book on becoming a freelance writer a spin for thirty days. I was one of the lucky guinea pigs.
If there were three things I would advise you do to become a freelance writer, besides write, I would have to say visit WAHM, Freelance Writer Jobs Network and Sue LaPointe at Working Writer Happy Writer and Build a Thriving Writing Business. These are great places to start. And if you have somewhat of a creative bent like me add Absolute Write to that list. Whatever you do, start making a list.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
