WHEW! Lovin' My Life!

I've been busier'n a cat coverin'... Ooh, that's not lady-like at all, is it?

Hmm... Let's try this again...

I've been busy! Very, very busy!  Writing for clients!  I was going to take the weekend off, but if I do that I'll have a crush on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday and...you get the idea!

Everybody I've served as a copywriter recently wants me to do additional projects for them--lots of them! And they're telling other business owners they know about me, so it has been crazy fun here.  I love what I do, so the more of it I have to do, the better I feel (and earn!), as long as I can beat all the deadlines and keep everybody happy by doing exemplary work.  So far this week, it seems I can do no wrong!  My clients are positively giddy, men and women.  It's a kick. It makes my day to make their day.

Today when I had a chance (between rain storms) I walked Laverne and Shirley (the goats). This is the second time in two days I've done that. They really love it.  It has been months since I've walked them outside their pasture because they have lots of room to roam now, including the neighbor's field, but it's just not the same to them, I guess, until "mom goat" (that's me) gets out there and walks and plays with them.  They follow me like puppy dogs all over the neighborhood. No leashes required.  It's a lot of fun and gets me out of this chair, too, which is a very good thing.

I'll be watching a relative's critters all week this week, morning and evening--stopping by to feed and water them and be sure they're A-OK!  The family is going to Disneyland and Arizona, so their cat and dog will need looking in on.  They live very nearby, so it's a breeze to do it for them...

Seven books were just delivered to me. I'm going to be ghostwriting a pet care book (probably a series of them, in fact) over the next couple of months for an animal advocate. I've owned several of these particular critters myself, so it's going to be a labor of love for me. I've written the introduction already; my client LOVES it.  I pray he'll love the rest as much as he loves the intro.  I was on a roll the night I wrote it--I surprised even myself!  

I must be getting better as a writer, huh?  You'd think, after 40 years, I'd just sort of hit my stride and do no better (or no worse) than I've always done but that doesn't seem to be the case. I think I've learned, finally, to get out of my own way when I dance with words. I advise everybody else to do that when they write but am not really sure I did it myself until relatively recently.  It's a hoot to feel confident enough about my abilities that I no longer feel the need to second guess myself as I'm sailing along. (Or, rarely, that is.)  I just go, go, go...and look back at it later to see what needs tweaking...only to discover that not a lot of it does!  It's a good feeling.

I wrote an ad for DOG FANCY that will appear for six months real soon, and I'll be writing an editorial for the magazine, too.  It seems 90% or more of my present clients right now are animal-centric. I'll be writing a chicken rearing and care e-book soon, too, for a new client.  Cock-a-doodle-do!!!  Welcome to the zoo!!!