Life of A Writer

Happy Monday, friends! Well, I met my deadline for the 10 articles over the weekend and sent my invoice… hip, hip hooray! Now… well… it looks as if I'm back to the drawing board again. I'm still responding to writing jobs and crossing my fingers for another client, because as we all know, Christmas is right around the corner.

Since I've met my deadline and hopefully pleased a new client, I'm also back to working on Discover Southern Illinois. I pretty much have everything on the blog the way I want it for now, all except for the links within my blog entries. I seem to be stuck on this one, and I spent my entire Sunday afternoon playing with the CSS code in Wordpress to get it the way I wanted. However, because I don't know much about CSS or Wordpress, I can't quite figure this one out. Therefore, if you understand the CSS in Wordpress, please help (I'm on my knees begging). Here's what I've been trying to do: presently, the links in my blog entries are set for a dark gray color and they're not underlined. I want to change the font color to something different and would like a line under the links as well. Now, I know how to change a font color, and I know that the "text decoration" in the CSS should read "underline" instead of "none," but I don't know what part of the CSS to change. I've changed some, but that didn't work out and I had to change those back. Apparently, they weren't the link colors for my blog entries. If you can tell me what part of the CSS to change, I sure would appreciate it; just leave me a comment. The theme I'm using is Redie-30.

Once I get the above figured out, I plan to officially launch my blog by distributing a press release, which I hope to write within the next day or two. After that, I will be adding the information about my first writing workshop to my website, distributing a press release about it, promoting it, and then I'll open up registrations. I'm really excited about the writing workshop! I love teaching other writers about writing and sharing my knowledge, so these workshops will be right up my alley, and they'll allow me to get to know other writers on a more personal level.

That will do it for this wonderful Monday. I hope y'all have a great week!

Enjoy this post? Subscribe for updates.

Bookmark on Del.icio.us | Stumble It!

Well, as most you loyal readers may already know, I LOVE and ENJOY helping others, especially fellow writers. When I first started writing many years ago, I only wished there was someone to help me. Of course, back then I didn't have Internet access, so availability to what's out there today wasn't there then. Therefore, I guess you could say I'm self-taught. I learned many things from reading writing-related books, and from reading books by my favorite authors. I also learned from trial and error. Now, more than 10 years later, with over 150 published articles, two published books and my own self-published e-zine for writers, I'd like to share all the knowledge I've learned thus far with my fellow writers through writing workshops. Not only do I plan to share what I've learned over the years, but I also plan to share the new techniques and secrets that I continue to learn today.

I will be offering all the writing workshops via the Internet. Offering my knowledge via the Internet will allow you to study at any time you desire, and best of all, you can study and complete assignments in your pajamas (or birthday suit) if that's what you feel comfortable doing. You should also be able to work any or all of the writing workshops into your budget, because all of them will be offered for under $200, and most of them under $150 (depending on the length). Furthermore, I'm going to take things a step further by offering a payment plan for those of you who can't afford to pay the entire fee at once, and you should have it paid in full just as the writing workshop is about to begin.

The first writing workshop will be Freelance Writing for Beginners. In the Freelance Writing for Beginners writing workshop, you'll learn what the normal pay is for a variety of writing services (blog writing, ghostwriting, etc.), where and how to promote your writing services, how to break into the markets, how to write effective query letters, how to research markets and potential clients, how to find clients and much more. This writing workshop will also offer free templates to help you get started as well as a free list of trade magazines that pay fair rates. In addition, all of my writing workshops will offer personal e-mail support -- and when time allows -- personal feedback. As a writer myself, I am dedicated to my clients, and as an instructor, I will be dedicated to my students, too.

The Freelance Writing for Beginners writing workshop is already in its final stages of planning, so keep watching my blog (or subscribe by e-mail or in a reader) to find out when registration opens. I'm hoping to be opening the registration within the next few weeks.

If you have any suggestions for future writing workshops, leave a comment or contact me from my website. I'm always willing to listen and consider your suggestions.

Bookmark on Del.icio.us | Stumble It!