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Brainstorming

 This is really a brainstorm more than anything. I realize that the best way for me to get somewhere with my writing is to spend time on it. To grind. One thing I think I need in the short-term is to work on things that don't have a deadline, that I can polish and can continue polishing indefinitely.

I don't know where the best places to find those opportunities are. Maybe most importantly, I'm simply carving out time to write. I'm not going to attach rules to what I write. I just need to make it a daily exercise.

I tried to work on an article through textbroker.com, but it was awful. It wanted all these keywords that didn't make any sense and they were only paying $7 for a 500-word article. I had already read that their pay rates were bad, but it's so much worse than I could have expected.

I'm coming up with a schedule for when I'm going to write, to maximize my time as much as possible.

I don't think I can insert a table here.

I'm not setting aside any time to write while I have the kids. I'm already working 40 hours during the week, so I want to be able to focus on them when they're with me.

That means that, on weeks that I don't have the kids, I'll have 24 hours to write. My current plan is to write 6-8pm when I get home from work on weekdays, and then to make Saturday and Sunday full-time work days for writing: 8am-5pm, with a one-hour break. On weeks when I do have the kids it will only be 6 hours of total writing, with 2 hours on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. It's the most ambitious plan I could come up with that might be sustainable. And now that I'm thinking about it, it might make more sense to just write from 8am-2pm on this upcoming childless weekend, and others. That would still give me most of the day for other things.

I slept from 6pm last night to 4am this morning, so 4-6am writing is making up for my lack of writing last night. If I write for 2 hours tonight I'll be successfully brewing a habit.

So I have 45 minutes until 6am. I guess I'll look at writing opportunities, for other ideas. I'm sure reddit has pages for writers. I really like the idea of submitting writing to one of those places where the buyers purchase already existing work.

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