Irina Gonzalez

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Category: Year of Writing

June Writer’s Life: My GLAMOUR piece and Q2/YTD totals [#yearofwriting]

Posted on June 30, 2017July 2, 2017 by Irina Gonzalez

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…

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May Writer’s Life: My first month at Romper was huge [#yearofwriting]

Posted on May 31, 2017June 14, 2017 by Irina Gonzalez

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 writing mostly about sex, love and relationships for the millennial…

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April 2017 Writer’s Life: My new blog & new gig at Romper [#yearofwriting]

Posted on April 30, 2017June 11, 2017 by Irina Gonzalez

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 week of April was not good for me. I hadn’t…

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March 2017 Writer’s Life: My piece for VICE and Q1 totals [#yearofwriting]

Posted on March 31, 2017June 11, 2017 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. If you’ve been following my #yearofwriting post here for the months of January and February, then you know that I am determined to do a LOT more writing this year and I’m also determined to track everything. This month, to be honest, hasn’t gone quite as smoothly…

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February 2017 Writer’s Life: What I wrote, how I pitched & money I made [#yearofwriting]

Posted on February 28, 2017June 11, 2017 by Irina Gonzalez

Please subscribe to my newsletter to get writing news and updates. Last month, I decided to write about what it is really like to be a freelance writer these days… As part of my commitment to the #yearofwriting, my January 2017 Writer’s Life post included all of the hard numbers (meaning how many words I actually wrote…

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Irina Gonzalez is a journalist, editor, and sober bisexual Latina mom with ADHD. She is the author of the Parenting in Hard Mode newsletter—for those of us who are raising social justice-minded families and getting real about mental health for parents navigating life on the difficult setting. She is also working on an upcoming book on impactful Latinx Americans with The Quarto Publishing Group.

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