Organizing has been a priority lately as more writing jobs are coming in. I wrote a post on this Wickefire thread, How do you stay organized? There are some other posts on it with good information also.
I have today and tomorrow off from one of my wage earning jobs. Tomorrow is busy with some appt and my second job. Today is time with my daughter and one meeting at church. I hope to catch up on writing jobs and writing for my own projects. I can hardly wait until Saturday when my hours will be reduced at Wal-mart! I’ve been feeling a little overwhelmed lately, but at the same time excited as my Jan’s Writing Services is growing! 
Since my strength is writing and blogs, I always thought I could get a blog set up to “run” itself. I never had a complete plan or got started. I finally did!
Here is the plan
GOAL-Have a blog with 365 posts (yes…that is one post everyday)
CHOOSE TOPIC-Daily general living inspiration
CHOOSE NAME-Go Forth Today
SET UP
- Create a sub-domain on one of my general use domains
- Add Wordpress
- Chose a WP theme
- Change the code to remove the year from each post
- Add Adsense and Shopping Ads
PROCESS
- Write 12 posts (one per month) before beginning anything
- Write 3 more blocks of 12 posts until I have 365 posts
- Evaluate
- Fine tune
REPEAT
- Use final process to make another blog
- Add to the process
- Keyword research
- Traffic
- SEO
- Once money is being made I will repeat with blogs that have their own .info domain
- The blogs that are the most successful will be used as a starting point for related websites and blogs with .com domains
Today I have 4 articles written. I just wanted to get started on something and I can write fast on the topic I chose. I am resisting doing anything else right now so that I can finish up some crafts by Sat and fulfill current writing orders.
A few things that are going on:
- Wal-Mart-I’m still waiting for my hours to be cut down so that I can devote more time to writing. Our department moved this week as part of the remodel, so my needs aren’t at the top of list of things to take care of!
- Reducing wage earning hours-I found out I can probably keep my medical if I go part-time. I need to get the specifics on what will change. Right now I just need to pay bills. I will eventually have the equivalent of one day a week for 3 months pay saved up before I cut back further. The next step is to have the dollar amount of my benefits covered in writing/internet income and then have the equivalent of 3 months saved before taking the next step.
- Personal serious issue-still in “waiting it out” stage for resolve. Doing what I can as I wait.
- Personal happy news-moved up a decade with my transportation! I’m selling my 1986 and now have a 1993 :). I just smile as I drive it…..I’m SO happy. The end of next month my (step) dad will be here to visit and with a horse for us to keep here to ride and for my daughter to learn on. He lives in CO and we miss him a lot.
- Writing-busy enough that I have not been able to write another package for “Why Wait for Content?” thread. Somewhat impatient waiting for my hours to be cut back on so that I can write more.
- My projects-neglected because I’m writing so much for pay and am getting ready for a craft show
- Kontera-I increased the density on the number of links and am making money again! I need to make time to request permission for use on a couple more projects.