As you can see, I am already trying to learn French (not that "bonjour" is very advanced French but, hey, I'm trying).
I have been working (I'd like to believe pretty diligently working) on reaching a few of my goals. The first goal I'm trying to tackle is the get a good job with decent pay at a company (because working for myself is great but time consuming and very difficult). To reach this goal I read a few books on how to become a copywriter. I've been writing copy for myself and for others for years now without any formal training and I didn't know what it was called while I was doing it. After reading through a few of these books, I found that I was, for the most part, doing the right things but there were a few places I could improve. So that's what I'm going to do. I've spent a lot of time thinking and combing over the copy on the many websites and social media pages that I admin to make sure that I have really punchy and effective messages out there.
I haven't finished editing and reworking all of the websites (that's going to take quite a while) and so I thought I could jump over here and post something on my blog because that's another part of my great strategy to become world famous and super rich (because I have totally normal and attainable dreams). I'd like to think that having such wild goals makes me a harder worker. Maybe that's just me.
Anyway, here are some steps I decided will get me closer to accomplishing the goals I listed yesterday:
- Read and learn more about copywriting and graphic design (I have a pretty decent foundation in both of these things and experience doing both of them professionally, I just want to get better at them.)
- Review, edit, rewrite, edit, rework, edit, polish and perfect all of the copy, images, designs, etc on the websites and social media pages I control (because why would I leave something up on the internet that isn't as perfect as I can make it?)
- Make printouts of my web pages as well as the unpublished writing I did as prep work for what I posted or plan to post and create a portfolio of work I can take with me to interviews or meetings with clients (this is an important step because it prepares me for that job I want and it also forces me to super organize my work into a presentable format)
- Rewrite and polish my résumé to reflect the amount of work and knowledge I have in both the copywriting and graphic design fields (because I have decided that is the field that I want the permanent job in. I'd like to work for a company that has things like health care and vacation time because right now, working for myself, those kinds of things don't exist.)
- Continue to post on this blog and set up a blog for another business to keep interest in the blog, reach a wider public, and to further showcase my copywriting abilities (this blog is really something I need to be more diligent in keeping up with. It currently isn't very impressive or well linked but maybe someday, with a lot of hard work, it will be.)
I'll keep posting about my progress writing copy and my progress writing fiction works! Ah! I totally forgot I had intended to post literary writing (not that blood demons are terribly literary. Update on that story though, not going to have blood demons and time travel anymore. The more I thought about it, the more it really became about the two characters relationship and less about the wild circumstances around their relationship.)
Maybe tomorrow I'll post more on my personal writing. Or about the things I've been reading lately. Maybe I'll post a picture too. I think that a lot of my post are lacking pictures. I should fix that.
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