tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-155948982011-07-28T14:53:55.395ZWriting tips and advice on writing as a home businessAnniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10332742931248440319noreply@blogger.comBlogger71100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15594898.post-58418938375116804422010-04-23T11:44:00.003Z2010-04-23T12:01:33.028Z

After two years devoted to teaching and nothing but teaching, I am back in the book world with a vengeance.Yes, I do think about my own book every day. I have the folder open and my revision notes to hand.But it is much more fun --dare I say it--working for someone else. And especially when that someone else is editor and now publisher Lea Schizas.This is a new publishing house with a philosophy

Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10332742931248440319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15594898.post-35521357697724671472008-02-21T12:25:00.004Z2008-02-21T12:44:28.329Z

Starter or a finisher? Which one are you?Most of us are one or the other. We either have great ideas, some of which even get through to the proposal stage, and then, already bored, feel the job is done and move on to the next great idea.Or we hate the early anguish of submitting our precious idea. We simply want to write the article and then find it a home.To make money freelancing, focus on

Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10332742931248440319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15594898.post-57943802402176874362007-01-09T14:37:00.000Z2007-01-09T14:41:54.702Z

Writing success is when you power up the dreaded machine and find two emails with contracts attached.Happy New Year to me.The articles were submitted in November and to be honest I had moved on.I had heard nothing and just assumed editors were too overworked to reply.Now to write and submit some more.

Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10332742931248440319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15594898.post-1163154741510535522006-11-10T10:18:00.000Z2006-11-10T10:32:21.536Z

Have been consistent in forcing myself to submit two items a week this month. It seems to be paying off already. May be beginners' luck but I am developing a thicker skin and writing faster.I spend less time agonising over query letters and just get on with the job.I have given myself a financial target to aim for per week. No slacking, then?!I read guidelines very carefully before submitting.

Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10332742931248440319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15594898.post-1160048409370572162006-10-05T11:30:00.000Z2006-10-05T11:41:59.493Z

Just looked through my first two posts. No writing, no business, huh!I've been scribbling like a maniac for months --am even about to sign up for nanowrimo, mad as I am, in an attempt to push out more words on my novel. It should be easy for me now --2000 words a day -- a dawdle, surely?I doubt it as I keep blowing up with mental exhaustion. The one thing that is true is that ideas beget ideas

Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10332742931248440319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15594898.post-1151316487473664432006-06-26T09:58:00.000Z2006-06-26T10:12:09.580Z

With the demise of Suite 101 as we once knew it, I had no reason to keep up the articles.What do I know of business anyway? I know how to query, how to sell, how to write but....it may be biological clocks ticking. I just felt the time had come to follow a dream for the next couple of years.Have been very remiss about money-making this year in the hope of completing and publishing my first

Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10332742931248440319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15594898.post-1124487116740935242005-08-19T21:17:00.000Z2005-08-19T21:42:46.730Z

I am editing this topic on www.suite101.com in order to keep focussed on the business side of writing. I truly believe it is feasible to earn a reasonable living writing from home. If this is your dream too, please join the journey.Every helpful site, every successful submission I shall share.I shall also share the rejections to prove that we can survive them. We certainly can't avoid them if we

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