Personal Finance, Writing, and Blogging
Posted in Blogging, Getting Published, Writing on Sep 4th, 2008
After running through last month’s stats, it got me thinking about how much money is in writing. As most people know, there isn’t much unless you hit the big time. And it’s especially little when you’re starting out. According to the Department of Labor, the median writer/author makes around $48,000, but that includes copywriters and [...]
Posted in alternative income on Jul 30th, 2008
I’ve been posting my alternative income for every month lately and while it’s nice to chart how well I do from one month to the next, I started to wonder how much alternative income I’ve made total since I started to monetize my blog and keep track of this stuff. So I decided to count [...]
Posted in Finance, Freelancing, Uncategorized on Mar 28th, 2008
I’ve talked and thought about alternative income and diversifying my income for a long time but I’ve never really counted up all the pennies to see how much I’ve been making. It was just such an “insignificant” amount that I never gave it much thought.
Then last month I saw some actual amounts of money in [...]
Posted in Freelancing, Writing on Feb 8th, 2008
I’ve been freelancing for this one client for a few months now. The deal was one big project at the beginning and some small upkeep on a month-to-month basis. Everything was fine until last month, when that upkeep became more than just minor. I spent five hours working on something that usually took around two.
This [...]
Posted in Blogging, Freelancing, Happiness, Writing on Nov 20th, 2007
Finally this is finished and I am so happy. I had underestimated how much work it was going to be and how much time it was going to take up. This is the first day in a couple of weeks where I really felt like I could devote myself to writing and not think about [...]
Posted in Finance, Freelancing on Nov 19th, 2007
I’ve mentioned the importance of diversifying your income before. So after seeing so many blogs listing their alternative income streams, I’m happy to announce my own “ticker.”
I received an advance for this freelance job I’m about to finish (today, actually). So that’s $80. And this week I should get paid the rest ($170). I [...]
Posted in Blogging, Freelancing on Nov 13th, 2007
So last week I had a week to go until deadline and the parameters were changed on me. Very casually. All of the sudden there was more work—WAY more. So I fidgeted and hemmed and hawed and just plugged away. Well Thursday is the deadline and I have been killing myself to get it all [...]
Posted in Finance, Freelancing, Jobs on Nov 7th, 2007
So last week I officially got my first ever freelance job. The timing is horrible: it’s the busiest time of the year at work, it’s National Novel Writing Month (I’ll have to abstain), and I am dedicating a lot of time to this here blog while I build my portfolio and look for another job.
But [...]
Posted in Freelancing on Oct 23rd, 2007
So here’s an exciting bit of news: Yesterday I got my very first freelance contract sent to me (right after I wrote about it, too). I will be proofreading a medical book and the accompanying website, as well as a monthly newsletter that comes with it.
I’m curious what kind of fees people out there [...]
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