It's been a little while since I've posted, mostly due to Real Life getting busy all of a sudden. For the last couple of weeks I've been on a writing hiatus, trying to clear everything else so I can have a nice and relaxing, writing-filled holiday.
One of the things I've been doing is gearing up to go Duotrope free next year. While I won't go into details - enough writers have already done so - I don't feel that what they're offering is value for money. So I exported all my data into Sonar, backed up my spreadsheet, and made a note of some free tracker websites to look into. I'll miss having a searchable database of markets, but to be honest I should be aiming for the pro markets first and I have a list of those anyway.
I intend to be more productive next year. To this end I've bought myself the Mslexia diary, which is full of writery goodies and will hopefully keep me motivated. This afternoon I went through and wrote "Write 1:" and "Sub 1:" on the first page of every month, since I plan on doing the monthly Write 1 Sub 1 challenge. Part of this will involve going over to Liberty Hall to do the Flash Challenge more often - no doubt there will be months that I need to in order to reach my goal!
Other goals include to finish my proofreading course, and to spend some time every week looking into and for different types of freelance work. I want to dye my hair purple, and I can't do that with an office job!
One of the things I've been doing is gearing up to go Duotrope free next year. While I won't go into details - enough writers have already done so - I don't feel that what they're offering is value for money. So I exported all my data into Sonar, backed up my spreadsheet, and made a note of some free tracker websites to look into. I'll miss having a searchable database of markets, but to be honest I should be aiming for the pro markets first and I have a list of those anyway.
I intend to be more productive next year. To this end I've bought myself the Mslexia diary, which is full of writery goodies and will hopefully keep me motivated. This afternoon I went through and wrote "Write 1:" and "Sub 1:" on the first page of every month, since I plan on doing the monthly Write 1 Sub 1 challenge. Part of this will involve going over to Liberty Hall to do the Flash Challenge more often - no doubt there will be months that I need to in order to reach my goal!
Other goals include to finish my proofreading course, and to spend some time every week looking into and for different types of freelance work. I want to dye my hair purple, and I can't do that with an office job!
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