Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Well, we’re officially in the last quarter of my #yearofwriting and I do believe I am doing pretty well… But not as well as maybe I thought I would be by this point in time? Let’s see. After last month turned out to be a kind…
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September Writer’s Life: Hurricanes & a real vacation [#yearofwriting]
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. What can I say about the month of September? To be honest, I don’t even know where to start. The truth about this month is that I almost didn’t work. First of all: I had a pre-planned vacation for a good chunk of the month. My…
August Writer’s Life: New gig, letting go & mental health [#yearofwriting]
Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. I don’t know how to say this other than to say it: August has been a very, very difficult month for me. It’s not because I didn’t have any work and was suffering financially (thank goodness) but because there were some changes and adjustments at Romper…
July Writer’s Life: Why I write about alcoholism recovery [#yearofwriting]
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 by my food editor job and my PT writing gig…
June Writer’s Life: My GLAMOUR piece and Q2/YTD totals [#yearofwriting]
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 up spending a lot of time pitching new stories. In…