OMG! We are about to have a prolonged stretch of spring weather. It appears the Winter of Wet is about to end. Praise the gods!
I have another blog I write in from time to time, a blog about urban farming, but I haven’t written in it for over three weeks now because I got tired of writing about the rain. Maybe that will change this week.
OUR PUPPY
Well, it really isn’t OUR puppy, but rather my son’s…but my son lives in a room out in the back yard, so Bev and I spend a lot of time with this puppy. Her name is Penny and she’s a Chiweenie (sp?), and she is adorable and fun and exhausting, all at the same time.
Penny has just taken over the house. She is convinced that the world is her oyster and the rest of us are just here to answer to her every need. I had forgotten just how exhausting puppies are but, at the same time, who can be angry with a puppy? Certainly not me!
So I spend a fair amount of time watching Penny, and the most entertaining of those times is when she is in the backyard interacting with the chickens and rabbits, all of whom are bigger than Penny and much-more established in the “pecking order” than Penny.
But Penny simply doesn’t care. She sprints off into the backyard and acts like she’s the new boss in town. She is totally fearless in the face of Butter Bitch, our meanest chicken, and Alice, our killer rabbit. Penny does this kamikaze thing, running full-speed at the animals, and then changing course just before eminent disaster, and she’s quick enough to pull it off without suffering the consequences. It’s pretty entertaining to watch.
And, of course, I draw lessons from watching Penny’s antics.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.” Nelson Mandela
THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Taking talent out of the equation for just one moment, why do you think most writers fail miserably at marketing their books?
Think about that question for a moment.
Penny is too young to know fear. She simply doesn’t understand the dangers she faces in the backyard, the possibility that any one of the animals, at any moment, will grow tired of Penny and just peck the hell out of her. Penny doesn’t understand apprehension based on pain or negative consequences in the past, so she just goes off, full-speed ahead, and does her thing.
How about you? Is marketing holding you back and, if so, why? Is it that you simply don’t like to market yourself, or is it because you are afraid of the pain of rejection?
Just curious!
NEW CUSTOMER
When it rains it pours. I recently picked up a new freelance customer. He’s a multi-millionaire in Texas, he is starting a new business, and he needs over 200 articles (SEO stuff) for his new website. He heard from a friend about this freelance writer in Olympia, Washington, who does a good job , so he called me, offered me the job at a good rate, and so now I’m busier than a one-armed paperhanger with crabs.
The point is this . . . I’m often asked how to find freelance jobs. Finding them is not difficult; finding good jobs is much harder, and it often, if not always, depends on your track record and your talent.
Work your craft!
Have a terrific week!
Bill
“Helping writers to spread their wings and fly.”
Billybuc
Artistry With Words 