It's all an experiment
Writing/freelancing/life
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When I got laid off from a terrible restaurant job and decided to make a go of it as a freelance wrier, circa 2014, I had no idea if I could do it. It felt like a wild move, a crazy gamble! Was it totally foolish? Was it possible? Could I pay my NYC rent? Could I pay taxes? Could I survive?
I gave myself six months to see. I could always get another job! (This was well before kids! And mortgages! And other fun adult responsibilities. But I still had to pay for rent and feed myself, etc.)
The answer then was: mostly, yes.
Today the answer today is: absolutely, yes.
It’s been an amazing - at times, grueling, at times, dreamy - road full of highs and lows. I handed out samples of fancy jam and edited Google-translated reviews of hotels in Croatia and wrote A/B/C ads for Facebook to see what preformed best and basically said yes to anything that had to do with writing words and getting paid any sort of money.
My goal with Write Up, my new writing group, is to teach you in eight weeks what took me about eight years to learn.
Ten years in, it’s still a sort of experiment.
That’s a good thing!
Once every few months, I do a check-in with my work. I want to make sure my projects are either creatively juicy, move the needle forward on big goals, or pay really damn well. I am constantly recalibrating and editing my career in accordance with these guideposts.
Once it stops being an experiment, it stops being fun.
In Write Up, we’ll do this recalibrating and editing work together. Your guideposts are different than mine, and we’ll make sure they’re clear and you have actions steps to take to meet them.
It can be hard to see yourself up close and personal, so we’ll give you some perspective, we’ll share wisdom, we’ll hold you accountable, we’ll cheer you on. (Here I am, waving my pom poms for you.)
Grab your tix now! There are still a few spots left, and you get 10% off if you sign up before March 15.
The experiment is more fun together.
xo,
Hannah
PS Here I am as a baby freelancer, working from the roof of an Istanbul hostel. I remember what I was writing - a blog post about fancy salts for a now extinct website.
