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Are You Ready For Valentine’s Day?

It’s mid-August, so it’s clearly time to start thinking about hearts and candy, right? Don’t look at me like I’m crazy. I really am planning five months ahead, at least when it comes to pitching projects. I’m not doing this because I’m super-organized, either. Right now, magazine editors are planning their February and March issues. [...]

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Your 2008 Calendar, Part 2: Budgeting Your Time

Yesterday, I posted about the mechanics of planning your writing calendar. I have more to say, however, so here’s part two. Is your goal for 2008 monetary? How much do you need to earn per month to meet your goal? Per week? Per day? I’d like to suggest that you put your goals on your [...]

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Planning your 2008 writing calendar

We all have fantastic writing goals: submitting a certain number of queries, hitting a certain word count each day, etc. These goals will make us better writers (and hopefully help us earn more), as long as we stick with them. I don’t want to sound pessimistic here — I’m only suggesting that we engage in [...]

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