The Next Phase in Freelance Writing: Private Clients

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It has been a long time in coming for me bit in the past month I have been building a relationship with private clients who sought me out. I was surprised when the offers starting coming into my email inbox. Naturally, I accepted the offers each time they came because they were good offers to write reviews on my blogs.

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Today is Another Eventful Day on the Web and Off

My blogs are in great need of constant updating and I am struggling to keep up with the demands of my blogging life, my network and website affiliate work as well as the other ghost writing and freelance writing that I do. It would be easier for me if I was not in transit most of the time on the traveling and peace work that we do for rainbow gatherings and in our ministry. To add to that, we broke down a dozen times if at all in the past 6 months so I'm emotionally not functioning as well as I might if everything was smooth in my life. So I deal with it.

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Posted in: affiliate work,freelance writing,ghost writing,ministry,rainbow gatherings,travel,update

What's New on The Midnight Writer's Blogs Network?

The Midnight Writer's Blogs is now listed on Pay Per Post for sponsored conversations. This will help me earn a little more money to invest in the domain network that I'm building until we have lots of private clients. Don't worry though, I'll still write for Pay Per Post and Social Spark because they supported me in my early beginning on this quest as a freelance writer and blogger. Thank you to some awesome companies. Check them out if you want to be paid for blogging. It's fun! If you have any questions about my experience with these companies, I'll be glad to share.

If you haven't signed up yet, then take a few minutes and join right now. Just click the banner below.

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Posted in: The Midnight Writers Blogs

Update on My Domain Blogs Content and Layouts

This is the scoop on what's new with The Midnight Writer's domain blogs. If you've been following this blog, then you know that I set out to establish ten domain blogs, to find nice themes or templates for each one, to monetize those blogs at least in a basic fashion and to drive traffic in an attempt to build ranking and readership.

(break all this up into bullet points)

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Social Networking has Kept Me Very Busy

For about three months, I have been exploring the social network craze in an effort to understand how it can help me with my professional blog network business. It all began for me last year with Social Spark, which was the blog networking site I joined last spring when I began writing paid blog articles, reviews and advertisements.


Now I can say alot about Social Spark, but I'll save it for another post. This is sort of a flash back review of the past year up until the past three months whenever I began to heavily indulge in social networking. When this post is finished, you'll have a better understanding about the path that brought me to this point in time. I'll use this blog post as a reference point for launching follow up in depth reviews of the different programs and sites that I've joined and you can ask questions to help me zero in on the important facts about it all.

Social Spark peaked my interest in the social networking to help increase traffic to my blogs. It also doubled as a potential source of income once my blogs were up to par for their requirements in order to be a sponsored review writer for Social Spark's advertisers and clients. Just before I joined this network, I started a flew blogs of my own and wondered how to get them noticed to get enough page rank to get paid well for blogging by all these pay to blog companies.

The first blog that I created was a "tumblr" blog titled The Midnight Writer's Freelance Quest which I immediately registered with Social Spark. Here I wrote enthusiastically about Qualifying because the race was on to get noticed as a professional blogger. This tumblr blog has undergone several face changes that lead to the current theme for this blog. Tumblr was a bit slow in offering options and I still haven't figured out how to program their software. Recently, I began to pay more attention to this blog and I'm setting a goal to write on it five days a week as a minimum. You know, I created a scheduling panel for all my blogs to help me focus. Check out my freelance quest and see what you think. I'm starving for comments! Please share your ideas.
In my research, I found Mashable and read articles by Peter Drew who had some amazing ideas. Peter suggested multiplicity to get noticed, so I created 40 blogs on all sorts of social networks and sub domains. This all took place before I understood the importance of paid blog hosting and buying domains. The Mashable event takes us down a trail of ancient history for me, though it was only a year ago. Time seems to have melded into some escalated awareness of blogging and my time seems to be moving rapidly while the past seems ever so far away. Does that make sense to you at all?

The plain explanation about Mashable is this: it involved creating multiple networks on one dashboard, joining all the networks, maintaining blogs, friends and all the things you do in the art of social networking. For me, this means bringing to the forefront all the old social sites that I joined and all the old blogs that were left on the wayside. Being Easter, it's the perfect day to think about resurrection and for my blogs, some of them need brought back to life!

Stay tuned for part two of this journey back into time as I recount my freelance journey.

The Midnight Writer

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Posted in: Mashable,Peter Drew,programs,social networking,Social Spark

The Heat is On to Join the Social Network Craze

Blogging is essentially a social interaction. It is a by product of the years of isolating practices such as using the internet to work in solitary offices or cubicles with little to no interaction with the outside world. Lunch evolved into being the highlight of the day. People yearned for that connection with others on a steady basis, even while working in a solitary environment.

Modern times distorted the social fabric of a communal or tribal society that functioned within the family, tribal or community unit. No longer did people work together in physical activities. People moved into cities and separated from their nuclear families and communities to become invisible elements of an ant farm cyber society.

Until the birth of social networks and blogs.

I say the two go hand in hand.

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Spring is Here and I Need to Finish My Blog Spring Cleaning

Here it is early April and I believe spring is finally here. The blossoms are out and buds are on the trees which is my signal that new life is dawning. My blogs need some new life and a lot of clearing out. Just like when you spring clean the house you open the windows to let in the fresh air.

My only question to myself is where to begin?

The logical place to begin, I guess, is right here. Currently, I have half a dozen uncompleted drafts. Most of my posts could use either a few hyperlinks or a photo or even some sentence and content polishing. If you're like me, you blog and write so much as a freelance writer, that when you finish an article or a post it is rare that you return to edit or add to it. I'm finding out though that this practice will lead to a higher quality blog. Looking at articles and posts a second time will often reveal changes that you did not see the first time around.

It's settled then, I 'm polishing this blog. Are you ready to take one of your main blogs into the eyes of your editing critique? Let me know how you fare in this project and please share suggestions, will you?

Another area that needs work in my long list of projects is posting news and updates here on all our domain and developing blogs. I've been very negligent in this area. You will see about two dozen posts during the course of this month as I run to catch up on the workload.

I have one new announcement today. Cephas, the Photo Gent, my partner at Mountain Spirit Productions and in this mega blogging network we've created, as well as my partner in life, has created his own blog. Check it out at Almost Everything Under the Sun. It is his very first blog flying solo. I usually write and he does social networking, graphics, technical, advertising,etc. So give Cephas a big boost in confidence to encourage him onward by visiting his blog today and please leave some comment and link love.

Follow Cephas on Twitter.

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Posted in: almost everything under the sun,April,Blog Day Planner,Mountain Spirit Productions,spring cleaning

Your Business Life Needs to be in Sync with your Spiritual Life

There is no separation between your spiritual life and your business life. Every moment that you are alive belongs to God who gave that moment to you. Use every one of those moments to His glory, if you are a professed believer. Live in His will, His spirit in every moment and in every aspect of your life.

Business is not a separate part of who you are spiritually. Learn how you can be an example and a witness in all areas of your life in every moment that you live. Being a blogger gives ample opportunity to share Christ and your faith in many ways. You can write to uplift, to inspire, to encourage. You can help others have faith simply by your witness.

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The Days of March are Melting Away

Have you noticed that when you try to get a lot done that time just rolls away?

It has been especially true for me lately. Ever since I began a serious effort to establish a blogging and freelance writing business, time just seems to slip on into the future. (yeah, I borrowed that from a song, so I'm going to share the video.)




When I set the intention to update my blogs regularly and to post updates about all my work on all my blogs, on new domains and my website, I forgot one very important thing.

Life Happens. Life is unpredictable.

Unforseen things in life happen.

Time unfolds according to the will of the spirit of God and if you are in tune with that spirit, sometimes you just need to go with the leading and the flow of the river of time and life.

That is what happened this winter.

I was reminded about the power of the universe.
I was reminded about following the will of God.
I was reminded that you cannot control most things in life.

One can only set intentions and hope that those intentions are aligned with the supreme Creator and the will of the universe.

There are no regrets if you go with the flow of the spirit.



Only lessons and experiences.
Take them for what they are and embrace life.

Realize that time is fleeting. All you have is this second. Nothing more. As soon as one second passes you are living in the now which quickly passes into the future moment. The past is not retrievable. Rather, the past was created to help us remember. To learn. To grow. And to appreciate the moment.

Somewhere along this road, I took a big detour into my destiny. I thought I understood my part in my life and that I knew what my calling required of me. I failed to realize that God only gives us knowledge of our future moments in small increments as we are able to receive them. Otherwise, our free will to choose and to walk in the now would be compromised, and our great lessons as mortals would be in vain. We are on this earth to experience, to grow, to learn how to be flesh and spirit. This is the greatest opportunity that God could give his children.

This winter, I took a trip with my husband to Washington D.C. I/we thought we knew how it would work out because we knew why we went there and what we needed to do. Speaking for myself, I had no idea about any of it whatsoever. I had to surrender to the will and spirit of Almighty God as He took hold of my/our intentions and let His Will that we prayed to be done unfold. What a surprise!


I/we are still digesting all of this past six months of our lives trying to understand what it means, what we learned and where do we go from here.

There are some things about purpose and direction that I understand very well. I just don't know the details of the how, when, where, why, who and how much...not yet. But I'm putting my ear to the wind to listen for the call of the spirit and praying that I will hear with my heart and spirit so I won't need to be reminded by God getting my attention. Spending two months in a parking lot at Walmart will really get your attention!

The Holy Spirit of God is calling me back to the fold of the will of His love and His Spirit to work in His will all my moments. I am indeed walking the Jericho road and need to focus my time, my energy, my heart, in the service of Jesus the Christ, who is my Lord and Savior. I will be sharing more of my spiritual heart with my readers and testifying of God's great love, mercy, and grace.



May we all walk in peace of the spirit and in the will of God every moment as time slips into the future and finally into eternity.


The Midnight Writer

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Posted in: blogging,business,Creator,freelance writing,future,time,will of the spirit

You've Got to Keep on Moving!

Here's the skinny update on some of my domain blogs. I have been super busy trying to catch up to all the assignments necessary to keep this blogging business on the move.

Blog Day Planner - most recent update was today with the post "Rainy Day in Tennesee". This post contains some good information so take a look at it and give me your feedback, please. Be sure to visit the sidebar on my blogs and others when you visit. Very often, they contain gems.

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Posted in: Blog Day Planner,blogs,posts,skinny,Tennesee,update

The Midnight Writer is Blazing a Blogging Trail

What have I been working on lately you ask? Blazing a blogging trail that is still emitting dust clouds into the air because I ran through at such high speed, the dust has not had time to settle yet.

For one thing, my ghost writing career has taken off and naturally, I cannot tell you about it. Ghost writing protects the identity of the one who hires the writer, so it seems like a thankless job. The money can be good, if you search out a reputable and profitable offer. You just can't claim it publicly. That's not really a negative aspect because ghost writing jobs can be used to pad your portfolio. My folio is smoking!

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Time to Tally the Progress for the Month

A few months ago, I set out to establish domains and to upgrade blogs. This one was created particularly to follow the progress of this work and to study as well as articulate ways to improve the various blog projects.

I believe I have reached a domain count of
Mountain Spirit Productions Website
The Midnight Writer
The Midnight Writer's Journal
The Midnight Writer's Blogs
Blog Day Planner
The Midnight Writer's Secret Portal
The Midnight Writer's Cafe

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