I enjoy my blogging and I enjoy writing about things that interest me – it’s what I love most. On St. Patty’s Day, just as I was cooking dinner (no, not corned beef & cabbage, but Newman’s plain cheese pizza), the phone rang. “I need an emergency blogger,” said the caller. What? He explained that he had a web company that wrote blogs to promote other’s websites and had a project that had to be done right away – he said he’d pay me about $300.
I asked if I could call him back after I’d gotten my pizza out of the oven. I needed a couple minutes to think about this offer. I got out my pizza wheel, and as I rolled it across my St. Patty’s dinner, I thought, why not? I know how to write; I can spew out a few thousand words. I called him back and said, send it over.
I retrieved the email later that night and my enthusiasm lessened a bit. I was to write some 10,000 words on – get this – knives. Now, I can write about knives, to a point, but how much can one say about
knives
? As the deadline loomed in front of me, and my brain was squeezing out the last of its ideas on every kind of knife, cutlery set and knife hobby I could possibly imagine, and my shoulder felt like it was on fire from mousing, I thought, man, this is like a sweat shop; I’m being paid pennies to blog for someone else – to promote
someone else’s site
! But, as I hit word count one last time and saw the number go over 10,000 words, I felt almost gleeful. I was getting paid – yes, just pennies – but I was getting paid to put words down words that would
help someone’s business
. And I could do it without leaving my house, without putting gas at $4+ a gallon in my car, without asking anyone for anything. All I had to do was turn on my brain and persevere – and keep putting down one word after another. I was serving someone and, in return, I was using my craft and I was earning money to do it.
So, if you, or someone you know, need an emergency blogger – or a non-emergency blogger, give me a call! I am here to serve you.
