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By: Writing Roundup, October 9 « Uncategorized « Jen's Writing Journey

Writing Roundup, October 9 « Uncategorized « Jen's Writing Journey — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:04:27 +0000

[...] Where Is Your Freelance Writing Career Going? Jennifer Mattern reminds us that, with the year drawing to a close soon, it is a good time to review our goals and beginning planning for the upcoming year. [...]

By: Allison Whitehead

Allison Whitehead — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:44:38 +0000

Great post! I’ve certainly looked back on this year recently, and while it has been good on the work front I haven’t achieved as much as I would have liked. This is mainly due to the family nursing a close family member through their final illness. Needless to say, that and the subsequent grief has had an impact. My writing has provided a worthwhile escape however.

Next year I have one major resolution I want to achieve for myself with my writing. It has to do with making myself a new client! As you say, it’s good to write for yourself to a degree, as well as helping out other people.

My best success this year was setting up my self hosted blog. No more free blog platform – this gal is doing it for herself and loving it! lol

By: Matt Willard

Matt Willard — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:56:03 +0000

Well, I’m gonna stick on my current path for now and work hard to establish my brand. While I don’t know how the client situation will eventually end up, I do want to focus more on my blog and build that up as a major part of my platform.

By: Lucy

Lucy — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:30:35 +0000

I’m still picking out my path. This time last year I had no idea that I’d be starting a business and trying to write full-time – I was still dreaming of becoming a dog trainer (and that dream is only on hiatus). I managed to get three clients in my first month, so I must have done something right.

In the next year, my goal is to develop a clear idea of where I’m actually going to go with this thing – currently I’m doing mostly website content, but I don’t know how sustainable that will be long-term. I’m going to a couple of conferences soon, so that might give me some ideas (fingers crossed, some new clients too) and spark a fire of some sort!