So, the first couple of days in Rochester were nice. I walked around, saw the sights in the city, and started hitting the gym on a daily basis. Life, as they say in those books about families and halcyon days, was good. I got a couple how-to assignments, and started writing them ( Read more... )

So, I'm in Rochester now. Rochester Minnesota. I'm house-sitting for my brother, a doctor at the Mayo Clinic, who left to go down and work with people in the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica. Actually, it's more like apartment-sitting. The apartment isn't what you would call big by any stretch of the imagination, all of three cramped rooms and ( Read more... )

I needed the weekend. Friday ensued trying to get an assignment in that was, quite frankly, hell to get through. There have been a few assignments that have been stressful, and each in their own way. This, unfortunately, was one of them. It was followed by fun with getting stuck for an hour on a road I should have been able to drive out of, and ( Read more... )

So, in positive news, the copywriting has been coming along quite well. I've been receiving steady assignments, turning in steady assignments, and generally they're going quite well. There are some big, big events coming up, and I remain stupidly optimistic as to the number of cover letters I have sent out regarding getting a writing position. ( Read more... )

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Okay, so I took an assigment, a quick one, to write about how to make a wicker chair. Granted, I personally do not know how to make a wicker chair, which is an impediment, but I took it anyway because (a). It was only two pages, one of which was detailing how make a wicker chair, the other was how to keep them clean, and (b). I've got access to ( Read more... )

So yeah, I got three copywriting assignments from a how-to site. Actually, I signed up for them, all due in a day, and it turned out after I was a quarter of the way through them that they wanted something different done with these pages ( Read more... )

So, got a couple new copywriting assignments...which is good ( Read more... )

I almost wasn't going to post in this journal again. Not that it hasn't been fun, but there's only so much interesting stuff that goes on during the day that you can call interesting, and a lot of what I *think* is deep is kind of navel-gazing anyway. It's really not anything productive ( Read more... )

So, a little under a month ago, hunting season began. Here in northern Michigan, hunting is about equal with Christmas. On one hand, you don't get gifts. On the other hand, you can shoot things, and there's more beer. So it evens out ( Read more... )