then comes marriage. Then comes baby in the baby carriage!
You might think that I'm just being random now; that I am stretching for an interesting opening to my posts on this site. You might think this is my desperate grab at increasing and maintaining readership.
You'd be wrong. It's Hambone.
No, seriously. I have some rather surprising news that is actually related!
I wasted an entire afternoon at a friggin' oil and lube joint. Got there at 2:50PM and left there at 4:25PM. This is my first wasted afternoon in ages, and to me it was a surprise. And um... oil.. is used to lubricate the carriage of an engine?
Hmm.. that's a stretch.
How about this: After the lube joint, I went to IFA to pick up two more chicks, since we had called and they had reported that they had new ones. So I went to get baby chickens. That's related right?
Of course, they didn't have sexed chicks (in other words, the gender hadn't been determined yet), nor did they have any that they could say for sure were laying hens. So I didn't get any. Maybe tomorrow.
Okay, not as bad of a stretch, right? Try this last on for size: I reported to my temporary sponsor for the first time. Not my AA sponsor, I report to her on Thursday evenings (only kidding). No, this was my temporary sponsor in the Master's program which I will be beginning in the Fall. At BYU. Studying IP&T. (Instructional Psychology and Technology)
So now I covered carriage, baby and report. Good enough.
Wait, did you think I was going to announce that we were going to have another baby? Not any time soon, nope. In case you didn't know: we have five kids, the youngest of which is ten months old.
On to my writing report. (Hallelujah! Hope you've stuck around til now.)
I got a financial fitness article onto LDSLiving.com's website yesterday. They also sent it out as part of their e-mail to subscribers. Apparently that e-mail goes to about 50,000 people.
Very happy thing yesterday, no?
I sold two articles to a Real Estate website a few days ago. They sold for $10 each. Not terrible. Not tons, but hey, what can you do.
I added another personal finance lesson to http://personalfinancegym.blogspot.com. Check it out!
And this blog had over 100 hits in under a week. Awesome!
I have a lot more writing to do over the next week. I'll probably be back next Thursday to update.
May I impose upon any reader(s) of this blog to please share the link on your Facebook, on Digg, Reddit, or on your own blog? I am always happy to link to other quality blogs as well. My intention is to build this blog so that I have 100 hits/day, rather than per week. Then, well, the sky's the limit.
Above this post, you will probably have already seen today's writing exercise. Share it too!
Showing posts with label LDSLiving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LDSLiving. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Who wants to see a byline?
Come on, you know you want to.
Here's the goal: overload LDSLiving.com's server.
http://www.ldsliving.com/magazine/show/1988/How-to-Avoid-Foreclosure:-Loan-Modification
Yes, that is an article of mine on the LDS Living website. It was also sent with their e-mail to some tens of thousands of eager readers.
Share it and share it and share it! Link to this post, to the article.. whatever.
carpe somnium
Here's the goal: overload LDSLiving.com's server.
http://www.ldsliving.com/magazine/show/1988/How-to-Avoid-Foreclosure:-Loan-Modification
Yes, that is an article of mine on the LDS Living website. It was also sent with their e-mail to some tens of thousands of eager readers.
Share it and share it and share it! Link to this post, to the article.. whatever.
carpe somnium
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Work Update
Right-o.
Right-O?
Whatever the case (get it? hehe) may be, it's time to update Quit and Write, so grab your tasty beverage and perhaps an oreo or two; it just might be a long and mildly wild ride.
Ooh, assonance. Love it.
Incidentally, I'm in love with punctuation. The semi-colon particularly. I love that puny piece of punctuation (alliteration!) so much I sometimes fabricate ways to use it.
Anyway, back to the task at hand. At fingertips. On lap.
I've been busy of late. Last week I shared how I had been kept quite busy with some writing of long, multitudinous passages. Well, I got paid for that, so that's freakin' awesome. Love getting paid to write.
I have since spent time reviewing passages and doing some revising, for that same project. All of which I will be getting paid for as well.
Now I have some more work to do for that company. All good, no?
Also, I've been working furiously on getting some more web-based writing revenue coming in. First, I wrote a couple real estate articles for www.helium.com. I can't share them because they are currently being considered for purchase by www.realtor.com. I wrote two, and if they choose both, that's a $400 payday. I pray often for this to work out.
I even did serious research for those pieces. Called real estate agents and stuff.
Now I'm working on a piece about the growing movement to keep chickens in suburban yards. I'm considering making it an expose on cities who have their heads stuck in the sand. Cities like Provo.
So in the last week I've written three financial fitness lessons. Two of them are on http://personalfinancegym.blogspot.com. I also put together some sales e-mails, and...
(how to embed a drumroll soundtrack?)
a piece that should be appearing in LDS Living's April e-mail to subscribers. That would be about 50,000 people. Worldwide.
I'm excited about that. (No pay, but exposure is nice, eh?)
I am pushing hard with trying to get others to link to my blogs on other websites. This is beginning to pick up some with my financial fitness blog. I've got a link shared on the Best Friends Network. Best Friends Animal Society is a large animal shelter in southern Utah.
I'm going to start learning about grant writing soon... just as soon as I finish mastering the art of the white paper. I'm nearly done with that, so shortly any companies who need white paper written up, contact me because I will be crafting meticulous and magnificent white papers.
A white paper is a long brochure, essentially. 3000 words or so about a company's offering.
As for novel writing, I haven't been able to make time, what with trying to pay bills and increase my non-fiction exposure. However, I do have a writing exercise for the next post. That post will arrive tomorrow. I call this the trickle-in method.
So now I must go. I need to get today's http://powersderived.blogspot.com piece finished and posted.
Check out my other sites. Share on networking sites. Digg, reddit, and stuff are all good places to share.
Right-O?
Whatever the case (get it? hehe) may be, it's time to update Quit and Write, so grab your tasty beverage and perhaps an oreo or two; it just might be a long and mildly wild ride.
Ooh, assonance. Love it.
Incidentally, I'm in love with punctuation. The semi-colon particularly. I love that puny piece of punctuation (alliteration!) so much I sometimes fabricate ways to use it.
Anyway, back to the task at hand. At fingertips. On lap.
I've been busy of late. Last week I shared how I had been kept quite busy with some writing of long, multitudinous passages. Well, I got paid for that, so that's freakin' awesome. Love getting paid to write.
I have since spent time reviewing passages and doing some revising, for that same project. All of which I will be getting paid for as well.
Now I have some more work to do for that company. All good, no?
Also, I've been working furiously on getting some more web-based writing revenue coming in. First, I wrote a couple real estate articles for www.helium.com. I can't share them because they are currently being considered for purchase by www.realtor.com. I wrote two, and if they choose both, that's a $400 payday. I pray often for this to work out.
I even did serious research for those pieces. Called real estate agents and stuff.
Now I'm working on a piece about the growing movement to keep chickens in suburban yards. I'm considering making it an expose on cities who have their heads stuck in the sand. Cities like Provo.
So in the last week I've written three financial fitness lessons. Two of them are on http://personalfinancegym.blogspot.com. I also put together some sales e-mails, and...
(how to embed a drumroll soundtrack?)
a piece that should be appearing in LDS Living's April e-mail to subscribers. That would be about 50,000 people. Worldwide.
I'm excited about that. (No pay, but exposure is nice, eh?)
I am pushing hard with trying to get others to link to my blogs on other websites. This is beginning to pick up some with my financial fitness blog. I've got a link shared on the Best Friends Network. Best Friends Animal Society is a large animal shelter in southern Utah.
I'm going to start learning about grant writing soon... just as soon as I finish mastering the art of the white paper. I'm nearly done with that, so shortly any companies who need white paper written up, contact me because I will be crafting meticulous and magnificent white papers.
A white paper is a long brochure, essentially. 3000 words or so about a company's offering.
As for novel writing, I haven't been able to make time, what with trying to pay bills and increase my non-fiction exposure. However, I do have a writing exercise for the next post. That post will arrive tomorrow. I call this the trickle-in method.
So now I must go. I need to get today's http://powersderived.blogspot.com piece finished and posted.
Check out my other sites. Share on networking sites. Digg, reddit, and stuff are all good places to share.
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