Progressing?
I think I am.
I've submitted five works to AC this week. Three are still pending, but the two that are available can be viewed HERE.
I've written two new articles (each over 1000 words) and have selected five possible magazines to send each one to (making it a total of 10 magazines combined). I must confess that I'm a little behind on sending those out too. My original plan was to send them by today at the absolute latest. Sending them out tomorrow isn't a bad thing though. Actually, it's a good way to wrap up my week.
And, of course, I started this blog and have managed to square the proper business away in order to create a path to generate a stream of revenue from it. I still need someone to show me how to get my profile back up near the top of my sidebar here instead of all the way at the bottom like it is now. I have no idea what I did, but that's a minor detail that's been bugging me. I've put a call out to a friend who's a whiz at this sort of thing, so hopefully I'll have that fixed in a little bit. If nothing else, though, this blog helps me keep my focus and organize my thoughts. Also gets me back in the habit of daily writing.
I've also learned quite a bit from all of the blogs, message boards, websites and private emails I've collected from other writers.
Yep, I'd say it's been a pretty good week so far.
I'll still complete my novels and other works that I've been working on, but it's nice to delve into the other working markets available for writers. I honestly had never considered half of them. The half that I had considered, I'd just dabbled in before, but am now taking them a lot more seriously. I love grantwriting and fiction, but it's nice to know that I can do more if I so choose.
I have an old 2000 edition of Writer's Market, but am updating to the online version for $29.99 per year. If anyone else would like to do so, you can access their site from HERE. Because of the type of writing I was doing before, I didn't use my last copy much. However, now, I'm finding it an invaluable tool and recommend that (if you don't have a recent copy already) you either get the print or the online version immediately.
I got the writer's guidelines for Blue Mountain Arts late last night. I'm excited to learn that they pay up to $300 for prose or poetry and $50 for submissions to be included in their anthology. Funny thing is that, as I drifted off on Tuesday night, Blue Mountain came to my mind. I absolutely love their cards and write in a similar style anyway, so I thought they'd be a perfect market for me. I made a mental note to get their guidelines, but then forgot about it by the time I woke up. God is good though and I came across a listing requesting submissions to Blue Mountain yesterday. I had no idea that they paid so well, but I'm anxious to submit some things to them. I have dozens written already, but plan on writing several more to add to a my submission to them. If you'd like their guidelines too, you can request them HERE.
I think I'll check out other greeting card companies too. If anyone knows of any, please post them here or email them to me.
Eventually, I'd like to get back into songwriting too. I guess that's not entirely correct, since I've never stopped, but this time I need to get serious with it and take it to the next level. I'm not quite ready yet, but soon...very soon, I'll start posting on my experiences in that arena. For now, I'm just putting it out there. ;)
Anyway, everyone have a great one and thanks for tuning in.
~BabyBlogger
I've submitted five works to AC this week. Three are still pending, but the two that are available can be viewed HERE.
I've written two new articles (each over 1000 words) and have selected five possible magazines to send each one to (making it a total of 10 magazines combined). I must confess that I'm a little behind on sending those out too. My original plan was to send them by today at the absolute latest. Sending them out tomorrow isn't a bad thing though. Actually, it's a good way to wrap up my week.
And, of course, I started this blog and have managed to square the proper business away in order to create a path to generate a stream of revenue from it. I still need someone to show me how to get my profile back up near the top of my sidebar here instead of all the way at the bottom like it is now. I have no idea what I did, but that's a minor detail that's been bugging me. I've put a call out to a friend who's a whiz at this sort of thing, so hopefully I'll have that fixed in a little bit. If nothing else, though, this blog helps me keep my focus and organize my thoughts. Also gets me back in the habit of daily writing.
I've also learned quite a bit from all of the blogs, message boards, websites and private emails I've collected from other writers.
Yep, I'd say it's been a pretty good week so far.
I'll still complete my novels and other works that I've been working on, but it's nice to delve into the other working markets available for writers. I honestly had never considered half of them. The half that I had considered, I'd just dabbled in before, but am now taking them a lot more seriously. I love grantwriting and fiction, but it's nice to know that I can do more if I so choose.
I have an old 2000 edition of Writer's Market, but am updating to the online version for $29.99 per year. If anyone else would like to do so, you can access their site from HERE. Because of the type of writing I was doing before, I didn't use my last copy much. However, now, I'm finding it an invaluable tool and recommend that (if you don't have a recent copy already) you either get the print or the online version immediately.
I got the writer's guidelines for Blue Mountain Arts late last night. I'm excited to learn that they pay up to $300 for prose or poetry and $50 for submissions to be included in their anthology. Funny thing is that, as I drifted off on Tuesday night, Blue Mountain came to my mind. I absolutely love their cards and write in a similar style anyway, so I thought they'd be a perfect market for me. I made a mental note to get their guidelines, but then forgot about it by the time I woke up. God is good though and I came across a listing requesting submissions to Blue Mountain yesterday. I had no idea that they paid so well, but I'm anxious to submit some things to them. I have dozens written already, but plan on writing several more to add to a my submission to them. If you'd like their guidelines too, you can request them HERE.
I think I'll check out other greeting card companies too. If anyone knows of any, please post them here or email them to me.
Eventually, I'd like to get back into songwriting too. I guess that's not entirely correct, since I've never stopped, but this time I need to get serious with it and take it to the next level. I'm not quite ready yet, but soon...very soon, I'll start posting on my experiences in that arena. For now, I'm just putting it out there. ;)
Anyway, everyone have a great one and thanks for tuning in.
~BabyBlogger
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