Tag: getting paid to write
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August: When to abandon a goal?
At the beginning of 2023 I set myself quite a few writing and freelance goals. Having last month reviewed my income for the first half of the year as well as the 2022/2023 financial year in Australia, I thought this month it would be good to look back on my goals and how they’re tracking…
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July: In which I catch up
I missed May and June… whoops. I’m pregnant, remember, and I will blame that for everything (forever). So this is going to be a catch up post. In Australia, July marks the start of the new financial year, and is also roughly a year since I left my part-time job to pursue freelance. I think…
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May: In which I don’t really remember
This post is coming in a few weeks late. As a result, I’m not really sure what happened in May and what happened in early June. I also had a horrendous two week cold and am in the 1st trimester of pregnancy, s things have been a little chaotic. But I’ll try and cast my…
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April: In which things changed
April was such a whirlwind of a month that I almost forgot to write this blog post. There were job opportunities to consider, life stuff that transpired. Easter happened. It was a month and I lost track of a lot of things, however I did catch up on some writing goals so lets check out…
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March: In which targets we’re forgotten
Wow what a month. We all had RSV for two weeks. I saw Hamilton in Brisbane (it lived up to the hype). We saw penguins in Tasmania (and a platypus too). And I started working on the education writing commission I mentioned last month. In the whirlwind my pitching and submission targets dropped off, but…
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February: In which I leapt ahead
February was a strong month in terms of submissions and pitches. I had a weekend getaway early on which coincided with an exciting opportunity resulting from last months mass LOI send out. I was commissioned for an wrote an article which will be published and paid for in March. Freelance Pitches and follow-ups sent: 4…