One of the most enjoyable aspects of the writer’s life is that you get to control your own schedule.
One of the most terrible aspects of the writer’s life is that you get to control your own schedule.
To be productive as a web writer, you need to strike a balance between work time and personal time. There’s a temptation, when you’re self-employed and your office is in your home, to go to extremes. Either you work all the time — or none of the time!
Mindy McHorse has found ways to balance a booming career as a six-figure copywriter with her roles as a wife and mother of two small children. On August 23rd, Mindy met with a group of AWAI and Wealthy Web Writer members to discuss her strategies for walking that time-management tightrope. You can listen to the teleconference HERE.
Getting Started as a Copywriter
Mindy always loved to write, but she never considered it as a viable career. She believed the myth of the starving artist, and knew she wanted to enjoy travel and other aspects of the good life, while supporting herself comfortably.
So she decided to become a doctor.
She went through all of her medical education and ended up with a job in public health at a local university hospital.
Once she achieved the “cushy, corporate position,” though, Mindy discovered she didn’t like it much. She had a micromanaging boss, and her work hours and her husband’s were opposite so they didn’t see much of each other.
Then one day, she received a letter in the mail from this organization she’d never heard of called AWAI. “Can you write a letter like this one?” it asked.
Mindy read the front page, then set it on her nightstand, where it sat
