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![June 2018 Writer’s Life: Great (full) month back at it! [#yearofwriting]](http://irinagonzalez.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/june2018.jpg)
Please subscribe to my newsletter: Self-Care For Writers. Well, I finally had a month that went pretty well! My writing goal since the beginning of the year was to make $5,000 a month and I FINALLY did it. I’m really excited about this, to be honest, because …
![July Writer’s Life: Why I write about alcoholism recovery [#yearofwriting]](http://irinagonzalez.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/writerslife-July.jpg)
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Well, after a very successful first six months of the year in terms of pitching, I am flailing a little bit (as you will see later). Predictably, most of my time these days is taken up …
![June Writer’s Life: My GLAMOUR piece and Q2/YTD totals [#yearofwriting]](http://irinagonzalez.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/June.jpg)
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. So it’s officially been 6 months since I started my #yearofwriting challenge. It’s been a really interesting road since then. At the beginning, I hired a writing coach to reach the next level of my career and ended …
![May Writer’s Life: My first month at Romper was huge [#yearofwriting]](http://irinagonzalez.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/18161547_1780244255622950_8229199442700402688_n.jpg)
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Hello there, May. In my fifth month of the #yearofwriting, I’ve done spectacularly well. As I announced last month, May 1st was the start of my new Lifestyle Writer role at Romper — a part-time gig that involves …
![April 2017 Writer’s Life: My new blog & new gig at Romper [#yearofwriting]](http://irinagonzalez.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/AprWritersLife.jpg)
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Well, here we are! It’s April in my #yearofwriting adventures and I have not one but TWO big announcements, so let me start with those… 1. I started a new blog, The Cookie Dough Life! The first …