I need to get rolling. I just received another project from the same guy who I did the gardening articles for. That is fine, I like it, but I need to treat this more like a job rather than a hobby. I need to get a lot done:
The new 25 lawn care articles project
The revising of my Mars Betrayal proposal
Another science fiction short story
Rewriting Brothers in Arms
Writing The Cabin
Today I did some work on the lawn articles and I did some writing on www.helium.com
But I just need to get more work done. I am going to give myself deadlines.
Today is Tuesday. I will have the 25 articles done by Thursday, hopefully earlier. I would like to do them all in a five to six hour day of writing, which I hope to try out tomorrow, but I will have them done for sure by the end of Thursday.
Friday will be the day I work on my revision of the Mars Betrayal proposal. I cannot say when I will get it done. Hopefully early next week.
Writers of the Future sent me an e-mail saying Song of the Wind sucked. Just kidding. They just sent me an e-mail saying that they got my submission.
I gotta do some stationary bike then sleep. That's all for now.
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Friday, September 14, 2007
Friday, September 14, 2007: Got it done
Well, the last few articles in that project were rather difficult, as I really knew very little about them. They were about garden furniture and accents and such. So I had to go to the library to get some research done.
In any case, I got it done. Next week I will be working on revising my proposal for Thomson Heinle. I hope to have that done by Wednesday. Then I want to get to writing The Cabin.
I wrote no articles for Helium today, but got two articles published on Associated Content:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/378750/what_should_president_bush_say_about.html
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/377547/why_no_child_left_behind_should_not.html
That's all for now.
In any case, I got it done. Next week I will be working on revising my proposal for Thomson Heinle. I hope to have that done by Wednesday. Then I want to get to writing The Cabin.
I wrote no articles for Helium today, but got two articles published on Associated Content:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/378750/what_should_president_bush_say_about.html
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/377547/why_no_child_left_behind_should_not.html
That's all for now.
Thursday, September 13: Productive
Well, not much to say except that I made progress on that project today. I actually am still working on number 20, so I did not get the minimum yet. But let's see how much gas I have left after posting this.
That's pretty much it. Oh! I wrote an article for www.helium.com this morning as well. I am very pleased with it. This is an article that suggests a speech for President Bush to have used tonight when he addressed the nation. If you are reading this and want to read my article, click on this: http://www.helium.com/tm/592979/president-george-addresses-nation
I like it.
I will be back tomorrow. I am going to try to calculate about how many words I have written in my life. There is a great author who suggests that only after writing a million words is a person any good as a writer. I am curious now.
See you later.
That's pretty much it. Oh! I wrote an article for www.helium.com this morning as well. I am very pleased with it. This is an article that suggests a speech for President Bush to have used tonight when he addressed the nation. If you are reading this and want to read my article, click on this: http://www.helium.com/tm/592979/president-george-addresses-nation
I like it.
I will be back tomorrow. I am going to try to calculate about how many words I have written in my life. There is a great author who suggests that only after writing a million words is a person any good as a writer. I am curious now.
See you later.
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
September 12, 2007 Wednesday (Been a while!)
Well, silly me for not reporting back for so long. I need to do better with this. Here's what is going on.
Thomson Heinle has asked me to make some revisions and then resubmit my proposal for "The Mars Betrayal". I will do that as soon as the next thing in this post is done.
I have been browsing online freelance websites and have made some bids here and there. Thus, I won a freelancing job to write 25 gardening articles. I hope to finish that tomorrow, then I can work on my revisions for the graded reader project mentioned above.
I won second place in a www.helium.com contest, thus getting a paycheck from them. What is more, I have continued to add to my article list there. I am pleased to be approaching seven hundred articles over there. Feel free to see my stuff there, by clicking on:
http://www.helium.com/user/show/45690
or you could even read a recent editorial-style article I wrote up this morning:
http://www.helium.com/tm/590836/child-behind-should-reauthorized
I feel I expressed my thoughts on this issue well and thoroughly.
I have also been steadily selling articles to www.associatedcontent.com , which has been a pleasant surprise. I make about $3-4 each time I sell one, and I can possibly make more as I build my content there and get traffic to read it. I got some nice comments on a few articles last week, so hopefully that will continue to grow as I plug at it.
And finally, to end this long post, I had an article on how to prepare good corn on the cob picked up by a local online homeschooling mag. I don't know what the distribution of this mag is, but I am calling this a writing cred. What is more, the editor has asked me about regularly contributing, or even having a column of some kind. I hope to have an idea of how that will work out sometime next week.
All in all, so far so good. Oh! I also finally finished the major overhaul of Song of the Wind and sent it off to Writers of the Future, the L. Ron Hubbard contest for new writers. My friend, Dave Wolverton, won this many years ago and it basically made his career. I don't expect it to do the same for me, but I am hoping to perform well in it. I feel good about the story, and have had several acquaintances on www.helium.com read it, to much praise.
So I need to buckle down and get to work on this gardening articles project tomorrow. I will either be done or have finished twenty of them when I report tomorrow. Until then!
Thomson Heinle has asked me to make some revisions and then resubmit my proposal for "The Mars Betrayal". I will do that as soon as the next thing in this post is done.
I have been browsing online freelance websites and have made some bids here and there. Thus, I won a freelancing job to write 25 gardening articles. I hope to finish that tomorrow, then I can work on my revisions for the graded reader project mentioned above.
I won second place in a www.helium.com contest, thus getting a paycheck from them. What is more, I have continued to add to my article list there. I am pleased to be approaching seven hundred articles over there. Feel free to see my stuff there, by clicking on:
http://www.helium.com/user/show/45690
or you could even read a recent editorial-style article I wrote up this morning:
http://www.helium.com/tm/590836/child-behind-should-reauthorized
I feel I expressed my thoughts on this issue well and thoroughly.
I have also been steadily selling articles to www.associatedcontent.com , which has been a pleasant surprise. I make about $3-4 each time I sell one, and I can possibly make more as I build my content there and get traffic to read it. I got some nice comments on a few articles last week, so hopefully that will continue to grow as I plug at it.
And finally, to end this long post, I had an article on how to prepare good corn on the cob picked up by a local online homeschooling mag. I don't know what the distribution of this mag is, but I am calling this a writing cred. What is more, the editor has asked me about regularly contributing, or even having a column of some kind. I hope to have an idea of how that will work out sometime next week.
All in all, so far so good. Oh! I also finally finished the major overhaul of Song of the Wind and sent it off to Writers of the Future, the L. Ron Hubbard contest for new writers. My friend, Dave Wolverton, won this many years ago and it basically made his career. I don't expect it to do the same for me, but I am hoping to perform well in it. I feel good about the story, and have had several acquaintances on www.helium.com read it, to much praise.
So I need to buckle down and get to work on this gardening articles project tomorrow. I will either be done or have finished twenty of them when I report tomorrow. Until then!
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