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Hot, Hot, Hot
Jun. 23rd, 2009 06:33 pmThe temperature hit 90 today, which was probably harder on our Malamute than it was on me. I'm finding myself busier and busier and yet I'm not sure I ever really accomplish very much, which concerns me, being as how I'm home all day freelancing. I write A LOT but is it lucrative?
No. Not really.
However, I see progress. The first year I tried to write for money I made a couple hundred bucks. The next year I made a couple thousand. This year I am on track to hit $9,000 or so, and that's writing three or four hours per day, some days more, some days less. It's hardly impressive, but I see it inching up year by year and I get to work at home. That works for me.
Right now I'm learning about ad revenue and trying to focus more on that, even though it is labor intensive and the financial gratification is delayed. I have vague plans to link this diary at Dreamwidth to a web site (eventually) and make it all congeal. Meanwhile, I have regular clients and my work at a popular blogging site. I should be earning enough for a monthly Google Adsense payout by July, and then there's whatever I can pick up on the job boards.
I'd also like to write a book. I keep talking about it, and I keep not doing it.
Anyway, that was today for me in the not-so-frozen north.
The vegetable garden likes this weather. I like vegetables.
No. Not really.
However, I see progress. The first year I tried to write for money I made a couple hundred bucks. The next year I made a couple thousand. This year I am on track to hit $9,000 or so, and that's writing three or four hours per day, some days more, some days less. It's hardly impressive, but I see it inching up year by year and I get to work at home. That works for me.
Right now I'm learning about ad revenue and trying to focus more on that, even though it is labor intensive and the financial gratification is delayed. I have vague plans to link this diary at Dreamwidth to a web site (eventually) and make it all congeal. Meanwhile, I have regular clients and my work at a popular blogging site. I should be earning enough for a monthly Google Adsense payout by July, and then there's whatever I can pick up on the job boards.
I'd also like to write a book. I keep talking about it, and I keep not doing it.
Anyway, that was today for me in the not-so-frozen north.
The vegetable garden likes this weather. I like vegetables.
