A lot
has changed over the last several months, especially in regards to my
writing. New to me equipment and new priorities.
Biggest
and most painful change was shelving Pico's Cycling for the
foreseeable future. I have every intention of bringing it back when
circumstances change and allow it. In the meantime I will continue
learning things that will make it better and more successful when the
time comes.
My
focus right now is on three things. The first is learning to be a
better writer with an eye to turning whatever skill and talent I
might have into a useful income. I'm not aiming at wealth but to try
to stabilize our financial ship. We're scraping by but there are
storm clouds on the horizon that worry me. I'd like to have a little
bit more control over it. I am studying online material to help me
out there. I've signed up for several freelancing sites and have done
quite a bit of testing to qualify for better potential assignments.
Second
area of focus is improving and writing on my own blog sites,
including my Hubpages account and WDC. I can apply lessons I've
learned and see what happens when I promote them. I don't have to
worry about the monthly magazine format or deadlines. I may write
some cycling articles that would likely be saved for a future issue
of Pico's Cycling but I can temporarily run them on a different
platform. Overall the intention is to produce more work rather than
less.
Last
but no least is my novel writing endeavors. I have to complete novel
rough drafts to work with. Part of my time will be spent revising and
editing them. I'm hoping to have at least one ready for my publisher
to consider before the end of the year. Not sure how fast I can get
the work done but as far as I'm concerned it can't happen fast
enough.
I have
some new hardware at my fingertips. My kids have passed down a more
powerful laptop into my care. Francine also gifted me a keyboard for
my tablet. This entry is written entirely on that sitting at Mc
Donald's while I'm stuck waiting for the twins to finish work. When I
finish I will email it to myself so I can put it on my blog when I
get home. Putting it directly on the blog is still beyond my skill
set. I like to check it over and add at least one picture and for now
that only works on my laptop
