Thursday, October 6, 2011
I'm Growing Tired
I just want someone to be proud of me. But no one ever says they're proud of you until you're a millionaire. Thanks, guys. Really. Thanks.
Monday, October 3, 2011
Proofreading
Well, thanks to two of my former clients (and one friend), I have decided I'm going to attempt that proofreading dream again. Out of the blue, I got two proofreading jobs even though I haven't been advertising and I shut down my website due to lack of requests.
After boosting my ego, these two former clients have pulled me back in. I'm going to design a new website (since Myspace sucks now), and I will be ready for business in about ... oh, I'd say 6-8 weeks. I have those two jobs to do (halfway through the first), I want to read a few more grammar books to freshen up my skills, and then there's the whole designing the website and figuring out prices and what services I want to provide. I'm not skilled enough to be a copy editor, so I'm just sticking with proofreading for now -- that's just checking spelling, grammar, and punctuation, so that's easy.
So ... yeah, just thought I'd share that. If any of you stumbling readers are going to need a proofreader in the near future, bookmark me; I'll be back in business soon. I don't charge very much -- half a cent a word. That's not bad considering the competition. A 26k word document only costs $13.00 through me; one of my competitors was charging $2.00 per page -- that would be $278.00 for that same document I'm only charging $13.00 for. I will never charge that much because I want to be able to help out indie writers -- I know what's it like being one.
After boosting my ego, these two former clients have pulled me back in. I'm going to design a new website (since Myspace sucks now), and I will be ready for business in about ... oh, I'd say 6-8 weeks. I have those two jobs to do (halfway through the first), I want to read a few more grammar books to freshen up my skills, and then there's the whole designing the website and figuring out prices and what services I want to provide. I'm not skilled enough to be a copy editor, so I'm just sticking with proofreading for now -- that's just checking spelling, grammar, and punctuation, so that's easy.
So ... yeah, just thought I'd share that. If any of you stumbling readers are going to need a proofreader in the near future, bookmark me; I'll be back in business soon. I don't charge very much -- half a cent a word. That's not bad considering the competition. A 26k word document only costs $13.00 through me; one of my competitors was charging $2.00 per page -- that would be $278.00 for that same document I'm only charging $13.00 for. I will never charge that much because I want to be able to help out indie writers -- I know what's it like being one.
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