Summary: I started work on my fourth novel! This is very exciting, and suggests I have actually managed to find a balance now between paid editing and my own writing projects.   Monday: As I worked on Sunday, I had planned to have the whole of today off, but a short, urgent task came through […]

Summary: Lots more variety and plenty to do on the paid editing front. I also completed, got feedback on, revised and submitted my first new short story in a while! Plus, I did a tone of marketing for my upcoming second novel. So, a good, balanced week!   Monday: I got some more editing work […]

Summary: Still lots of interesting work on the paid editing front, though I am finding it difficult to integrate my own writing into my new schedule, as I had feared. I have ideas about how to approach this, but I think it’s going to take some time to figure out.   Monday: After a broken […]

Summary: Transition week – my last day in my day-job was Friday, so now I’m free to pursue my new career in freelance editing, and hopefully get back to writing my own stuff (as well as having some time off)!   Monday: Last week of fitting paid editing jobs around the day job! I had […]

Summary: Penultimate week of juggling day-job and paid editing work! It was pretty busy, but good overall, with some more potential long-term clients in the pipeline.   Monday: I got some more work from the magazine client overnight so I did that first thing. Then I went back to the parenting book for a bit, […]

Summary: Very full week of paid editing this week. I’m missing working on my own fiction projects, but plans are afoot to get back into that before the end of the month. Plus, new laptop and new writing locations!   Monday: I still woke up early, but it was half an hour later than the […]

Summary: Continuing to be very busy on the paid editing front – so I quit my day job!!! Three more weeks of double duty, and then I can relax into the freelancing properly, without having to spend three days a week as a wage slave as well. Hopefully, that will mean I can also get […]

Summary: I am apparently finding some kind of equilibrium between personal writing projects, paid editing, and continuing with my day job. Now that I’ve completed current obligations on novels two and three, and also submitted the only short story I was working on, I was planning to focus on my business plan for a couple […]

Summary: Don’t get me wrong – I’m incredibly proud of myself for how well I’m doing so far in building my paid editing business, I’m really enjoying the work, I’m getting great feedback, and I’m amazed at how quickly I’ve managed to make it a viable source of income. But – it’s perhaps going a […]