It’s a Work Thing

May 12th, 2010
Work & Projects

No, I haven’t been hiding under a rock.

The past few weeks have been quite interesting (and challenging) for me, I hardly had the time to sit down and write something here.

Of course, there’s the usual home cooking and child rearing tasks. In between, I sneaked in some work like:

Writing & Editing
Last month, I finally accepted an editing project which I’ve been rejecting since last year. I kept refusing the offer because it’s newspaper work, and you know how it is with newspapers – uber tight deadlines, last-minute editing, a series of proofreading, etc. I can’t do these things anymore, and I don’t think I can ever go back to that kind of writing life – biting deadlines, scouring for stories, choosing headlines, etc.

But the agent kept calling me. She’s a former writing agent in the maritime industry. And I’ve always considered her a good friend. So I agreed to see her. She came to see me in Alabang and sort of *begged* me to accept the job because her in-house editors have all left. So I took it. With a lot of clauses, restrictions, conditions, etc.

To make the long story short, most of those agreements were not honored by the client. I wasn’t too happy with how things went during the course of the project. But I did deliver the goods. And I got paid. I sometimes wonder if the payment was for all the editing work that I did (not to mention the rewriting that I did for these so-called ‘writers’) – or merely to compensate for all the stress that I went through.

Anyway, I’m just glad that I finished the first round. There could be more, but I can’t sweat any more details until everything’s clear.

I also worked on a commissioned short story for children which revolved around the theme/value “Order”. It was tough writing a story without the help of my husband, who’s always been the backbone of almost every children’s story I’ve written. I submitted the story asking for some input from the magazine editor and publisher. It took some 2 agonizing weeks before I heard from the publisher. Yeargh. But the story got accepted without requests for revisions. And I got paid for it. So, yeah, whoopee.

Rebuilding my Coupons/Deals site
The month of April also saw the great move of Connie’s Coupons to Blogger. I’ve long been contemplating on doing this move, primarily because (1) I’m beginning to run out of web storage, and (2) I don’t want to pay for extra hosting anymore.

Following the launch of the Blogger Template Designer, I realized that Blogger is probably the best place to head on to. The hosting is free and unlimited. And there are several add-ons and plugins that are relatively easy to work with. I don’t earn much from my coupons/deals site, so I’d rather not invest on domain + hosting. I just update the site when new client alerts come via email. I personally handpick the coupons and make sure they’re family friendly. Most of the coupons featured on the site are for US & Canada residents only. If you know any frugalistas from that side of the planet, please refer Connie’s Coupons! I’ll be posting fresh coupons within the week.

Whew. So, what’s been happening on your side of the Earth?

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