Updates for Anyone Interested Out There…
I am pretty boring these days. If you run into me, don’t be surprised if I am monosyllabic, or tend to be self-involved and only talk about my website and my business. My brain is preoccupied with many things these days, things like what free advertising can I find online? How many names can I remember from high school and college that I can Google and find on Linked In or can use as a business connection somehow? Where else can I put out my website and email address so I can get orders in for resumes, cover letters, and proofreading and copy editing? When will I be able to pay my phone bill? Should I finally take Johnny Depp off my voicemail and put on a more business-like message? How long will it be before I can pay my parents and friends back? Will I ever be able to afford to pay for advertising and will it be worth it? What can I do to keep my talents and skills at the forefront of everyone’s minds so that I’m the first one they think of when they need writing, proofreading, or copy editing help? How can I get Pye to sleep on the bed and NOT on the desk? Does he understand I still love him if I move him out of my way? Should I keep trying to sell stuff on Amazon, or should I give up and sell at a loss to Amoeba?
I wake up with these questions. They run through my brain all day. I go to sleep with them. As a result, I am not doing any reading (I just can’t – my brain is not there). I do skim through the blogs and leave a comment occasionally, so even if you don’t hear from me, I am reading you (you out there with the blogs….). Another result is that I am writing less because I am so preoccupied with trying to get more writing jobs. Backwards, I know. But I sit down to work on an article, or story, and the next thing I know I’m wondering if one of the guys from my graduating class who is a writer now has a website or is online somewhere so I can connect with him, or maybe there’s one more free online directory I haven’t checked out yet, and I’m off.
So, I am really going to need to buckle down to get this writing done, and the reading, if I can get my brain to settle down enough to do it. I may need to cut out any blog reading altogether. Doesn’t mean anything other than I’m just pretty darn busy. Don’t worry, you’ll hear from me when I re-emerge from the business/writing/organizing fog. It just may take a while.
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on August 22nd, 2008 at 10:19 AM
I promise you used some double syllable words the other day in person.
on August 22nd, 2008 at 12:23 PM
*snort*
on August 28th, 2008 at 8:17 AM
Rachel, I’m totally with you. I too am so focused on my books – selling them, marketing them, writing the next one and selling THAT – that I can hardly deal with anyone else’s stuff. I have been forcing myself to read fiction and that’s helped a lot – especially good stuff that gets me excited to write my own work. But it does get disheartening sometimes.
on August 28th, 2008 at 3:58 PM
there are days when all I want to do is sit in the quiet and watch the trees sway back and forth. Then I snap out of it and I head back to the computer and start working. What has really been working for me is riding my bike up to the observatory at 630 am, it’s quiet and the city is just about to wake. It clears my mind and I get a great workout. Then I am ready to start my day.
:O)
on August 28th, 2008 at 5:32 PM
If only I could drag myself out that early. But that’s a good idea.