Too many words, not enough pictures?
Saturday, March 6th, 2010Warning: this is not about painting, and, even worse, it is about not painting!
It probably isn’t a very good idea to post without any pictures but I am just not finding the time to paint at the moment and it’s quite frustrating. The reasons why are actually good reasons – I’ve started doing freelance writing for a couple of different companies as a way of earning extra income.
Originally, I had planned to work for just one company and bring in a minimum sum each week, but as I didn’t seem to be getting anywhere with my applications I panicked and made lots all at once. One firm took me on almost straight away and that was great – but they only gave me small amounts of work to begin with. Fair enough, I thought – I’m just starting out. Then another firm accepted me and I found myself in the middle of a gruelling testing process that went on for weeks.
In the meantime, the first company had found me the extra work I’d originally wanted, and – sure enough – I now find myself trying to juggle just a bit too much work trying to keep both firms happy.
One of the companies is British and it is much easier working for them than the other, which is American. I don’t have to run everything through a US spellchecker and worry about language differences in general, nor do I have a strict editor who gives me marks out of ten for everything I write, which is a bit frightening and feels like I’m continually doing exams. The British company certainly allows a bit more freedom but – of course – the American job pays more, making it difficult to decide what to do.
I have to remind myself that the whole point of the writing work was to have something flexible to allow me to keep painting, while in reality it seems to have taken over my life.
Never mind, I’m sure I’ll sort things out before too long and in the meantime I apologise for the lack of pictures!