Flexible Working Life

I just love this blog post from the brilliant Carrie and Danielle blog. 

I read it and thought, yep, that’s so what I need to do.  I love all my writing work and there is nothing better than writing just for pleasure, but yes, it does need to make me money, it does need to be productive.

The tips that are in the blog post show how it can still be art whilst also being money making.  It is excellent advice to follow - especially the bit about how to ‘approach everything as a creative opportunity.’  Recently, I’ve been delving more into short story writing and I’ve suddenly realised that ideas are absolutely everywhere.  And this has kind of opened my eyes, that ideas are all over the place - not just for plot lines and characters, but for articles too. 
I have since got a small notepad to carry round with me as well as my ‘inspiration box’ so I will never, (hopefully) dry out of ideas.

Must just remember to write down the ideas now.

Just seen this and thought it was worth a mention.

For the month of August, BView are offering a £10 Amazon voucher for writing 20 reviews about business. It must be the first review to qualify and it has to be 100 words in length and of quality.

They say:

To earn your £10 voucher, write 20 reviews that meet these criteria:

• Tell a story about your experience - how did this business thrill or disappoint you?
• Add a meaningful amount of text describing both the “pros” and “cons” of the establishment — the longer the better but it must be at least 100 words to qualify! [Read more]

This is something that I hadn’t heard about before today but I think it’s a brilliant idea.

It seems that lawyers deciding whether or not to accept a case, or looking for feedback on cases that they are currently dealing with are using various websites for focus groups and research.

They pay fees for people to be e-jurors, for e-trails.  This company is currently looking jurors but you do have to be a US Citzen over the age of 18. Here is another one to try as well.

I’ve not seen anything like this before, but if you live in the US it might be a great way to earn some extra cash.