Breaking news…
As I type this blog entry, my power partner Lisa (check out her site at DancingGoatWebDesign.com) is working in the background, under the cover of darkness, surreptitiously moving heaven and earth (or more precisely, fingers and keyboard) at warp factor wow to get more eye candy for your peepers. So hang in there; subscribe and keep coming back.
After this site is completely rolled out, it will up to me to keep you engaged and informed (which is the scary part). Such a responsibility!
In other news…
Yesterday I completed a $450 project in a single day–hooray–after a week or more of financial famine. Last night I kicked off (minutely, just 100 minutes’ worth) the ghostwriting project I’ll be tackling for the next several weeks. Right now I’m on page three (or maybe the top or middle of page four). It is slated to be a $7500 project but may not end up that way because I write faster than most writers (after decades of honing the craft). I estimated that a 35,000-word manuscript will take around three and a half weeks (at 20 hours/10,000 words per week/500 words per hour) but I think I’ll be able to deliver it sooner, so it might only be about $6000. We’ll see. I know the claimant (my client) will want to offer his insights and tweaks as we go along, so it might take the full time we’ve slated for it. As a work in progress, one just never knows! All I know for sure is that I’m enjoying it immensely. Not being able to claim it or put my name on it will be hard. I think it has the potential to sail pretty far up the charts and become “high profile”–perhaps even a bestseller. I sure hope so for my client’s sake and for any future work he may want to send my way if this title does go to the top in its niche! We’ll see!
One thing that I always try to do as a business owner and copywriting pro is underpromise and over-deliver. As a result, I’ve never missed a deadline or had to charge a dime more than I’ve told a client the price would be. I’d much rather give money back than have to ask for more–and so far (in seven years) I have only had to give money back; I’ve never had to ask for more unless the scope or parameters of a project changed to include more work. So my “estimator” abilities are pretty good…
What else? Are you curious about anything? What brought you to this page? (I didn’t twist your arm that hard, did I?)
Let me know what you want to hear or learn about. Engage! Social media is SOCIAL, a two-way street. And to get the ball rolling, tell me about the story (or book) that is in you that needs to come out. I’m all eyes! (I’m only “all ears” when I’m with you on the phone.)
OR… alternately…
Let’s do something creative together. Maybe write a many-author poem. I’ll write the first line and you write the second one, then we’ll have someone else write the third one for a total of eight lines. That might be fun. Or not. Only one way to find out!
Here’s the first line:
When I woke up this morning…
(No cheating! “You were on my mind” has already been taken :)!)
If that one is too tough, you start one and I’ll write the next line…
Your turn!
