Blog Day Planner

This is really exciting for us at The Midnight Writer's Network! We are adding domain blogs that will be used to write features on fantastic sites, great writers, useful products and the latest in search engine optimization techniques and programs.

The basis for this site is to create a space with an elegant, sophisticated persona that features the finer side of writing and literature. We'll delve into marketing here as well because every writer or blogger who writes, needs to know the basics about drawing readers to their site(s).

Elite Blog Reviews is in pre-launch so keep coming back for the next month to watch the progress as we develop and grow on the internet. This blog is currently set with five pages besides the main blog page. Feature pages include the writer's background, marketing tools, resources, current news about the site, and techniques. More pages will be added that will feature great writers, tools that are used to market articles and blogs, opporunities and much more. As I said in the title, this site is in pre-launch phase so it's hard to say how many features will eventually be created at Elite Blog Reviews.

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It's goal setting time once again this year and I'm reviewing my income, my work habits, and all my freelance writing techniques. You would do well to re-evaluate your freelance writing business at least twice a year. This planner is a format that allows me to write, to plan, to evaluate and focus on any improvements that I could make in my personal business practices.

I came to the realization that time planning is a crucial element in any project, whether personal, civic or business. Taking that into consideration, my goal is to assess how I use my freelance writing time to discover how much I earn per hour. I want to improve my work habits to maximize my earnings and to increase my writing proficiency.

One thing that must remain intact is writing quality. Never sacrifice quality for any amount of money. Stay true to your style but be willing to try other styles. This practice will broaden your horizons and help you to discover whether your talent lies in other areas. Remember though, if you are a freelance writer, you are operating a business in which your time as a freelancer is valuable. After all, you want to get the most out of life so write in such a way that you will have more time in other areas of your life.

Maximize your earnings.
Free up your valuable time to allow for personal time.
Become more time efficient.

These are the goals for this fall. I hope to practice writing so that I will earn a minimum of $70.00 per day, every working day. For me, that will be six days per week to equal $420.00 weekly. Maybe I'll exceed that goal. For now, that involves writing 7 ten dollar articles daily, if that is all that I find in my task boards. Some days I'm very blessed to have $20 to $25 or $35 assignments. On those days, I'll exceed my goal because I am planning to write four hours every day for six days. That's a minimum. Some other time will be spent working on a novel, so I'm cutting out about 20 hours of blogging a week so I can focus on writing a chapter per week of my novel.

I'll post updates on my progress. Let me know how your goal setting lines up with your actual turn out this fall.

The Midnight Writer

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Our wheels hit the pavement today after we left Snake River Canyon in Twin Falls, Idaho. Cephas and I made a one hour pit stop at Starbucks before driving west. I made preliminary ideas in my head about what I'd like to accomplish today online then checked my email and we rolled on down the highway once again. The rest stop in Twin Falls was nice, I have to admit. Too bad for Cephas that he is still in pain from over-exerting his back and kidneys while fixing our van.

The sweet part was camping at the canyon last night and waking up to its stunning extreme beauty. The canyon rivots down a steep ravine to the river. I'm always fascinated by its intense and majestic scenery. This time, I actually took some pictures and video. I forgot to bring the camera into our room tonight to upload the film. I'll either have to brave the dark and leave the comfort of my chair, or put that on the list for tomorrow's "to do". As for tonight, I 'm writing for Pay Per Post and for myself on some blogs. My goal, write ten posts if I don't run out of wind and steam, then take a hot bath and try something called sleep. I know, it's a foreign word to some of us freelance writers, but it is a life necessity at times.

Tonight, I'll keep it simple. Tomorrow is a busier day.

Six posts for Pay Per Post - they're short ones and don't pay very much but I need the coffee money and the practice. These travels are very expensive!
Four posts on these blogs: Mountain Spirit Productions, Keep It Simple, The Midnight Writer's Freelance Quest and Blog Me Back 2.
I have to do a quick report on The Midnight Writer's Blogs to wrap it all up. It's 12:30 am so I should finish around 3 am. That's a good time for a midnight writer to go to sleep.

We'll discuss some of our blogging adventures tomorrow and talk about some freelance writing tips. Will you share your ideas with me?

The Midnight Writer