Comments on: Zoe-World Update http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/zoe-world-update/ Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:39:25 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: zoewinters http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/zoe-world-update/#comment-5027 zoewinters Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:11:00 +0000 http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/?p=2238#comment-5027 Hey Kait, I likely will. There are a few good books out there though. Anything by Robert Bly. And then Peter Bowerman wrote a book called the Well Fed Writer, and a sequel on the topic. Hey Kait,

I likely will. There are a few good books out there though. Anything by Robert Bly. And then Peter Bowerman wrote a book called the Well Fed Writer, and a sequel on the topic.

]]> By: Kait Nolan http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/zoe-world-update/#comment-5026 Kait Nolan Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:56:24 +0000 http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/?p=2238#comment-5026 I hope you'll post some more on the copywriting as you get into it more, as that's something I'm interested in and don't know a lot about. I hope you’ll post some more on the copywriting as you get into it more, as that’s something I’m interested in and don’t know a lot about.

]]> By: zoewinters http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/zoe-world-update/#comment-5025 zoewinters Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:52:19 +0000 http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/?p=2238#comment-5025 Hey Realmcovet, thanks! Hope that I wasn't about to fall off the planet into a massive insane depression? :P Hey Realmcovet, thanks! Hope that I wasn’t about to fall off the planet into a massive insane depression? :P

]]> By: zoewinters http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/zoe-world-update/#comment-5024 zoewinters Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:51:51 +0000 http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/?p=2238#comment-5024 Ing, maybe, with the experience you have, you could move into some freelance commercial writing yourself. You'd probably make more than what you're making now. Ing, maybe, with the experience you have, you could move into some freelance commercial writing yourself. You’d probably make more than what you’re making now.

]]> By: Realmcovet http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/zoe-world-update/#comment-5023 Realmcovet Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:24:38 +0000 http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/?p=2238#comment-5023 Sounds like an awesome game plan Zoe. I'm excited for you, really. It somehow gives me hope to see you goal oriented. Good for you!! Sounds like an awesome game plan Zoe. I’m excited for you, really. It somehow gives me hope to see you goal oriented. Good for you!!

]]> By: Ing http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/zoe-world-update/#comment-5022 Ing Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:24:25 +0000 http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/?p=2238#comment-5022 I like the MPC concept. Especially in this crappy economy, it makes sense. Except that I'm finding that I just don't have the mental stamina to do the 40+/hr per week job that (mostly) pays the bills and has that all-important health insurance plan, AND run a monetized website/blog (or the window washing service I used to do) AND get the imaginative/creative play and writing that keeps me sane and makes me happy. One or all of those things suffer when I try to do more than about one and a quarter of any of them. I'm not sure if I'm just lazy or simply fundamentally limited when it comes to drive and mental energy. (I'm not lazy, I'm achievement-impaired!) :) Sigh... I hope the commercial copywriting thing works out. Like you say, it could be fun. (My day job is basically that, except that in practice I end up doing more managing than writing, which kinda bums me out...but the writing I get to do, I mostly enjoy.) And if it brings you enough $$ to be worth the time, what more can you ask? Other than becoming a bestselling fiction author, I guess. :) I like the MPC concept. Especially in this crappy economy, it makes sense.

Except that I’m finding that I just don’t have the mental stamina to do the 40+/hr per week job that (mostly) pays the bills and has that all-important health insurance plan, AND run a monetized website/blog (or the window washing service I used to do) AND get the imaginative/creative play and writing that keeps me sane and makes me happy.

One or all of those things suffer when I try to do more than about one and a quarter of any of them. I’m not sure if I’m just lazy or simply fundamentally limited when it comes to drive and mental energy. (I’m not lazy, I’m achievement-impaired!) :) Sigh…

I hope the commercial copywriting thing works out. Like you say, it could be fun. (My day job is basically that, except that in practice I end up doing more managing than writing, which kinda bums me out…but the writing I get to do, I mostly enjoy.) And if it brings you enough $$ to be worth the time, what more can you ask?

Other than becoming a bestselling fiction author, I guess. :)

]]> By: zoewinters http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/zoe-world-update/#comment-5020 zoewinters Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:28:14 +0000 http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/?p=2238#comment-5020 Hey Ann, yep. It wasn't until the industrial revolution that most people thought of their work in terms of only one thing they did and one place they went to to work. Hey Ann, yep. It wasn’t until the industrial revolution that most people thought of their work in terms of only one thing they did and one place they went to to work.

]]> By: Ann (bunnygirl) http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/zoe-world-update/#comment-5019 Ann (bunnygirl) Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:27:09 +0000 http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/?p=2238#comment-5019 It sounds like you've got a good plan and I agree that the "serial monogamy" model of work is silly. If it happens, great, but it's not the only game in town. Prior to the 20th century, rich and poor alike commonly had multiple revenue sources, and it's how much of the world still operates today. It sounds like you’ve got a good plan and I agree that the “serial monogamy” model of work is silly. If it happens, great, but it’s not the only game in town. Prior to the 20th century, rich and poor alike commonly had multiple revenue sources, and it’s how much of the world still operates today.

]]> By: zoewinters http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/zoe-world-update/#comment-5018 zoewinters Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:26:30 +0000 http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/?p=2238#comment-5018 Robin, are you really going to need hair club for MEN ever? Robin, are you really going to need hair club for MEN ever?

]]> By: robinaltman http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/zoe-world-update/#comment-5017 robinaltman Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:47:38 +0000 http://zoewinters.wordpress.com/?p=2238#comment-5017 Dude! I don't need hair club for men. . . yet. Dude! I don’t need hair club for men. . . yet.

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