I'm sorry that this second blog has been a long time coming, but Christmas sort of got in the way. One of my New Year's resolutions is to make my updates more frequent in the future.
Speaking of Christmas, it's a funny time of the year because time seems to be on fast forward. When I worked in a factory I would spend the first three weeks of December wishing my life away just because I'd be having a weeks holiday at the end of the month. I'd daydream about all the nice things I was going to do, and all the hours I was going to spend blissfully engrossed in my hobbies. I'm sure it will come as no surprise to you that things never turn out the way I'd planned and if I got a couple of hours to endulge myself and live my own life I was lucky. The new year would dawn and it would be back to the grind stone with a smile painted on my face.
Talking of painting, I took up watercolours a few years ago after the kids had grown up and gone to conquer life. When Christmas came that year I managed to get a decent amount of time to myself and did a painting that I'm reasonable proud of.It is called "Birches" I'd love to know what you think about it?
Anyway Christmas is over once again and here we are about to start a new year and at last I'm going to tell you what this blog is all about.
Writing and Fishing.
There are thousands of people out there hoping to make easy money by becoming a writer, but there are nearly as many who are about to give up because they are failing to see results. I hate to use the over worn cliche, "been there and done that, " but it does say it all. When I started writing I knew nothing about the subject but now I've had loads of stuff published from letters and articles to short stories and my book about fishing. It wasn't all plain sailing though because I've wasted so much time I could sit down and blart if I think too much about it.
Anybody who has tried to make money from writing will tell you it isn't easy and only a fool would give up the day job first. I think the main message I will be trying to put over is the fact that speed and focus is vital if you want to be successful.
So many people get frustrated and give up. More often than not, this is because they lacked focus, they failed to home in on one area of writing or they wasted too much time trying to crack a market that either didn't suit their style or was just over saturated. Yes, I've been there and done it, I wasted about a year of my writing life in the process. Imagine that, writing for a whole year and havin nothing to show for it.
So in a nutshell that is what the writing part of this blog is going to be about. It should help you to recognise time wasting traps and allow you to see a clear way forward. During the course of these blogs I will also give away some free downloads of stuff that I've written. You can do what you want with these downloads, modify and submit them to your chosen market at your leisure or just read them and bin them. But what I'd really like in return is some of your feedback. I would like you to tell me and other followers of this blog what you think of the content. Mostly the downloads will be of material that failed to get published but I'm sure we'd all be interested in why.
To summarise,becoming a freelance writer is hard but money can be made by those who know what they are doing as long they apply themselves and work hard. If you follow this blog I hope to be able to give you some useful pointers.
Now I suppose those of you who are interested in fishing are pulling your hair out reading all this stuff about writing. Well don't despair because although writing might be the way I earn money, fishing is still one of my greatest pleasures and there will be lots of fishing content in future blogs. I will discuss some of the ideas mentioned in my book,"Fishing :learn from the Tips & Laugh at the Tales."
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I will also talk about some new topics some of which are included in my next angling book which hasn't as yet got a title.
I hope to get feedback from anglers who follow this blog especially those who have read the book.
May I wish you all a very prosperous New Year
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