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Inside a writer’s life



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I am a professional writer and I am going to take you into how I make time to write and share a bit of my writer’s life:

Every second weekend I spend brainstorming writing and then actually writing. I find that every second weekend is the best time to write for me. During the week I have a different full time job that I find I am too tired by the time I get home to write something. I also have a lot of night time commitments after work so writing unfortunately gets put aside. 

But every second weekend I make time to write and write quality but also quantity. 

Today for example, I was thinking of starting a business to be a digital magazine creator. I wrote three magazine issue topic ideas for every bit of content that would be included. I researched other magazines and similar category magazines to see the scale I could reach. I worked out the possible costs and outlays to start the business and get the proper set-up. I created an action plan of how many pages a week I would have to write and how many issues in advance would I have to write before the start of publishing the first issue. I brainstormed magazine names. 

And then I pulled my focus away. I did some exercise. I had lunch. After 4-5 hours of brainstorming I realised a digital magazine wasn’t the option I wanted right now. I would still be open down the track but for now, I want to focus on blogging. 

  • So I sat back down and brainstormed my new action plan.From October, I am going to publish six blog posts a week. This is to hopefully reach more views on my blog. 
  • I also created a Facebook group called Hobbies I love (link below). 
  • And I still want to write and publish an eBook regularly. 

So that’s my plan. I don’t mind sharing this plan, because it may not work. Ha. But instead of outlaying everything for a digital magazine that may not work, at least my cost outlay for a blog is very low. 

Plus, I really enjoy blogging. I don’t really have time to create and publish a monthly online magazine that would have over 40 articles inside. Maybe one day when I retire. 

So I used to have 10 blogs. Over the year, I have stopped writing for all of them except this blog. This is because I always have so many ideas to write on this blog and it is my largest viewed blog out of all the others. I want to focus on this blog and I feel like I can blog daily if I want because I don’t also have the others to work for. 

I initially had ten blogs because I wanted to make passive income from them and figured if I had 10 then I could make ten pathways for passive income instead of one. Now I realise, if I focus on growing my own one blog that I love to write for, then I have a higher chance of success. 

It’s been a year and it’s had steady growth each month and I don’t really do a lot of advertising. So fingers crossed I can grow this blog and make it something you love as well. Because it’s all about you dear reader and what you want to read. 

So back to my actual topic about a day in the life of a writer. Well it’s complicated. Because I want the best outcome for us all. For you and me. I want to give you the best information and fun content that hobbies give us and eventually I would like some passive income from it.

But I used to write 20 blogs every second weekend on ten blogs. I had two weeks worth of blog posts for each blog. Now I’m just doing 12 blog posts every second weekend.

Plus, I promote my blog posts on LinkedIn and Pinterest (see links below) to also help grow my audience. 

And on that writing weekend, I also spend about an hour or more on an eBook. 

So that’s what a writer’s life looks like when juggling a full time wage and family and the events of life. I hope you found this blog helpful for your own journey. You don’t have to write as much as me or as little. Just work out a set day to write and a goal of how much to write and go for it each week. 

#writing #dayinthelife #meltoye 

Also if you are a beginner in crocheting, you may appreciate reading my ‘The journey of crocheting for beginners’ ebook by Melanie Toye. You can purchase here: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1808619


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