This week -- rather, the past few weeks, have been busy ones.
One of four articles I was writing, my first articles I was assigned to write since July 2015, was published, another was accepted for publication and will see print soon, and a third was published online this morning. Amidst all that were the visits to topic locations and meet with sources, phone interviews to do, and marketing, marketing, marketing. And yes, all that writing. It feels good to be a busy writer again. The current period in no way resembles my full-time writing life of 2010-11, where my goal was to juggle and complete 10 - 15 articles a week, which were primarily of a daily\weekly type of piece. However, I always say that a busy writer is a happy writer, so my goal is to buttress the current published works with new assignments while also marketing and studying magazine samples for the new, therefore remaining in my "happy writer" place. So where am I going with all this? Well, just to say that I feel so at home doing it. When I look back at my life, and pick out the things that have made and still make me happy, the result is always the written word. This is reflected in a basement library that contains almost 500 books written by others, contributor copies of, and clippings and tear sheets from, magazines of all the work I've done through the years, and now the almost comparable amount of the before-mentioned my daughter Stefanie has accumulated. I have my goal publications, my goal assignment (to ghostwrite books for professionals), and a life that has been and continues to be rewarding. Steve
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Steve Sears is a New Jersey based freelance writer
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