Archive for January, 2008
Addicted To Books & Addicted To Reading
There has hardly been a day that has gone by when I haven’t read something. I’m addicted to reading, writing, and books. I have an old copy of Shakespeare dating back to the 1700’s also I have and old book of poetry. I believe it was published in 1742. Those are two of my most [...]
Freelance Writing Job: When It Rains It Pours
Yesterday, I received another freelance writing opportunity. Although it’s not what I decided to place my focus on as a freelance writer it’s a topic I know well. Check out Jim’s post titled Specialist or Generalist. Which one are you?
Whatever interests me I learn as much as possible about the subject. That usually requires [...]
Freelance Writing: To Query Or Not To Query?
Recently, I discovered a great opportunity. It’s writing for an upcoming magazine. The topic is something I’m very knowledgeable about, alternative healing. It seems like a great opportunity. A little background I’m a business owner. I create natural beauty products. I’m pursuing my Masters degree in Traditional Naturopathy. I’m also an aromatherapist. It’s not [...]
How Can I Improve My Writing?
How can I improve my writing? I asked myself that question several years ago. I kept waiting for an answer, but I never received one. About a year later I became pregnant, and I discovered that I had a reason to write. I wrote every day in a journal documenting my pregnancy. My pregnancy was [...]
Writing, Editing, and Proofreading
Printing is something I now do on a daily basis. Scrivener is my word processing software of choice. I love Scrivener it fills the entire screen, no distractions just me, my thoughts, and a swoonworthy software program. Heck I love saying & typing the name. It rolls deliciously off my tongue, and it feels good [...]
Addicted To Writing: Minor Updates
Over the next few weeks, I’ll be making updates to addicted to writing. Tomorrow, I’ll hit the two-week mark for addicted to writing. Funny it seems as if I’ve been writing on here a lot longer. I have written a fair amount of posts.
New Page Added
A new page that I’ve added feature some of my [...]
Freelance Writing: Conquering My Fears & They’ll Pay Me To Do What?
December 10, 2007 will make one month that I’ve been a freelance writer. It seems like just the other day when I made the decision to finally start freelance writing. Now that I think of it I’m not sure what took me so long? Okay, that’s not true I know why I didn’t make [...]
USPS, I Want My Books Dang It!
On December 30th I logged onto Amazon and saw this screen. My heart sank when I saw where my books were. Capitol Heights, MD. I call it the Holding Place from Hell. When I talked to my local USPS post office, I was told that the Capital Heights are a distribution center for mail. The [...]
Conquering Writer’s Block
The past few days I had a few articles that were near completion but for some reason I convinced myself that I couldn’t complete them. That’s self-fulfilling prophecy! Every time I looked at these articles I became frustrated. I didn’t want to touch them so I avoided them at all cost. Early this morning I [...]
Freelance Writing: My Daughter Writes…
This past holiday while I was visiting family I heard my father proudly tell my sister in laws grandfather, “My daughter writes!” He’s always been able to explain my business to people. He’ll say, “Opal creates and sells natural skin care products. She named her business after my granddaughter!” He’s always [...]
