Writing is my forte and my passion. Which results from my love of research and information. So many things fascinated me over the years that I tried a lot of different things. When I decided that I should stick to writing, I ended up getting a lot of writing assignments but at very low rates – I was anxious to get back into the writing business and started off with some cheap writing deals. Essentially this meant putting a cheap label on myself and failing to value my expertise.
Of course this can be a fatal step if things go wrong – and I am in the midst of preventing that. With a too much work for too little pay what happens is that I end up writing what felt like 18 hours a day and burning out. So I am in the process of weeding out the client list and only keeping the two or three best clients. Which means people who pay well and who are consistent in their wants.
Meanwhile I am working on more tightly focusing the work I do. Sure I can write articles until the end of time but there are other things I would rather do. Earlier this week I found a blog on creating a mothership blog and that really struck a note with me. I often get stretched too thin with the different projects I have and they all end up suffering. Keeping these blogs going and creating a mothership blog is a perfect idea for me. But that means weeding out the work that does not pay enough and focusing on the things I want to do.
I am off to pull together the mothership. And weed.
