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Thursday morning, I went up to Petoskey for an overnight install of not one, but two offices. (Actually, both offices were technically in Harbor Springs, but we call anything up in that area "Petoskey" just for simplicity's sake. Anyway, we woke up Friday morning to a blessed lack of snow, but that changed halfway through breakfast. By the time we packed it in at the last job and headed home, around 2, there were probably at least three or four inches on the ground.
It was awesome.
Took me right around 5 1/2 hours to make what should have been a 3 hour trip, the first 3 hours of which were spent driving on I-kid-you-not nothing but snow in what I hope was simple proximity to the freeway, though I can't absolutely guarantee that I wasn't just driving along it. Thank goodness for four wheel drive, though boo-hiss at the poor fuel economy when using it.
And speaking of which, the pay-for writing thing I mentioned last weekend, which turns out is paid ghostblogging, seems to be shaping up really nicely. It's a corporate thing, discussing energy efficiency and other "green" topics for some corporate website, which means in the last two weeks I've probably done more writing on environmental topics than I have in, um, four years(?) of LiveJournaling/blogging.
So that's been kinda neat. The only weirdness is that the money is Canadian. So I have almost no clue how that's going to work out at tax time, as though freelance writing money isn't hard enough to treat properly (at least, for those of us used to taxes being taken out for us). But I have a friend at Canada Revenue Agency. We'll see if that makes a difference.
Otherwise, I also sorta-kinda participated in the NaNoWriMoNoMoNoNoNo this year, though it was more a mechanism for me to see if I could write nightly with a consistent output. So far so good, though I only made just over half the official goal. But that's okay, because I fell just short of my personal goal, which was 30K, or about a third of a novel. Now I've got my expectations calibrated for December (including the scheduled days off around Christmas) and goals set accordingly. I'll let you know how I do when we get to January.
It was awesome.
Took me right around 5 1/2 hours to make what should have been a 3 hour trip, the first 3 hours of which were spent driving on I-kid-you-not nothing but snow in what I hope was simple proximity to the freeway, though I can't absolutely guarantee that I wasn't just driving along it. Thank goodness for four wheel drive, though boo-hiss at the poor fuel economy when using it.
And speaking of which, the pay-for writing thing I mentioned last weekend, which turns out is paid ghostblogging, seems to be shaping up really nicely. It's a corporate thing, discussing energy efficiency and other "green" topics for some corporate website, which means in the last two weeks I've probably done more writing on environmental topics than I have in, um, four years(?) of LiveJournaling/blogging.
So that's been kinda neat. The only weirdness is that the money is Canadian. So I have almost no clue how that's going to work out at tax time, as though freelance writing money isn't hard enough to treat properly (at least, for those of us used to taxes being taken out for us). But I have a friend at Canada Revenue Agency. We'll see if that makes a difference.
Otherwise, I also sorta-kinda participated in the NaNoWriMoNoMoNoNoNo this year, though it was more a mechanism for me to see if I could write nightly with a consistent output. So far so good, though I only made just over half the official goal. But that's okay, because I fell just short of my personal goal, which was 30K, or about a third of a novel. Now I've got my expectations calibrated for December (including the scheduled days off around Christmas) and goals set accordingly. I'll let you know how I do when we get to January.