Day One :: I Can Change

So I started this online training programme today. It entails getting up at 6 and working from 7 till noon every weekday for the next nine weeks. This is my own timetable.

Last night it occurred to me to write a little update at the end of every session, starting now.

I’m not going to say what exactly the training is until I’m either finished it or I give up and demand my money back. (It has a money-back guarantee in case of dissatisfaction, which was kind of key in my taking it on. I’m far too skint to go giving money away for useless tat.) To give you a tiny bit of background, however, what I’m hoping the course will help me do is find the necessary skills to enable me to make a living writing online.

Thus far I’m impressed.

Firstly, the tone of voice of the training materials is refreshingly frank and free from bullshit.

Secondly, simply working my way through the materials at the very beginning of the course has resulted in my joining various job-seeking websites. Nothing I didn’t know existed before, but nothing I had got round to joining before. (Actually one of them I had joined but more than a decade ago, when it had a completely different name. As did I. What a world.)

Thirdly, the online community attached to the course looks very interesting, and has already tossed up lots of new opportunities to make money from writing. Too many in fact to follow through on now, because I have to get ready to go teach.

This is going to be a busy couple of months. And about halfway through, when the clocks go back and spring springs into my face, it’s going to be beautiful.

Oh, and every day I’ll stick a song at the top*. A song with a pertinent lyric or two.

And it’s for me that I’m doing this. This is the best way I can think of to document this experience and make sure I’m getting as much from it as I possibly can.

So.

Here we are.

See you tomorrow.

x

 

*Some days I might stick a song at the bottom too.

 

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