2018 by the numbers

2018 by the numbers

On the whole, last year didn’t seem overly positive, but there were several very big spikes in the excitement graph, like my first time traveling out of the country in a decade and a couple cool press trips. Here are some of the numbers. 102-ish articles...

2016 in review: Words by the numbers

Since June 2016, I wrote and published 146,067 words across 286 articles for four clients (not counting my personal work). I have no idea how this compares to the industry average, but if you had told me in May that I would write the equivalent of a couple of...

Freelancing – the first two months

Freelance – noun. A mercenary warrior not sworn to any lord. This will be brief. In my first two months since quitting my day job and working full time as a freelance writer, I have written 53,482 words spread out over 120 articles for four publishers. My desire...

A new chapter

It’s eighty-nine degrees in my house as I write this, so apologies for any typos. Yesterday was my last day at Pro Photo Supply, my employer for the past six years. I am incredibly thankful for the opportunities I had there to grow as a writer, which I am still...

The road to an MBA

Note: I originally wrote this on 10/29/2014 for Pacific University’s MBA blog. The blog, it seems, never came to be. Now that I have completed the program, I’ve decided to share that original post here. – – – The past 12 months have been...