It’s been an exhausting month! I have a brand new Valentine this year: my amazing daughter, born mid-January. Now that everyone is acclimating to life together, I’m slowly returning to freelance work.
And just in time for Valentine’s Day, I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be blogging regularly for a new romance site from Tor!
As I dust off my sadly neglected blog, you’d be forgiven for thinking that I’d been
kidnapped by aliens, or fallen into a well and not been able to climb out again. Fortunately, neither is the case.
The truth is, I’ve been working – a lot. This is good, but it’s only half the reason I’ve been less focused on my blog and writing business than I would have liked to be. Maybe just one-third the reason, even.
Last year I signed up for NaNoWriMo and pounded out twenty thousand words for an absolutely terrible novel during the month of November.
(For the uninitiated, NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month. You sign up to write 50,000 words during the month of November. It doesn’t have to be good; in fact, sloppy is expected. The other eleven months of the year are for editing the garbage you produce into something resembling a novel.)
Thinking about starting a part-time or full-time freelance business? Great!
I assume that anyone considering a freelance career already knows that they need a computer and internet service. I also assume that most people also have a desk and chair associated with that computer.
There are several tools that have proven invaluable in setting up my own freelance business, which I hadn’t considered when first starting out. Keep reading for the five tools no freelancer should be without. Continue reading
Whew! Where did the summer go?
I’d love to be able to report that I’ve enjoyed a relaxing summer off or that I’ve been up to my eyeballs in lucrative work, but sadly, those would be lies. Blog posting has fallen off my radar for that time-honored yet inexcusable reason: poor time management.
This has been my summer of wrestling with some serious productivity killers, including:
