So some exciting news from me…. I’ve written a book!
Not quite something I ever thought I’d end up doing in my life, but I’m excited to (nearly) officially be an author!
Basically, ma gal Chloe told me about this website called Upwork. She told me that on this website, lots of people outsource admin jobs to people overseas for them to do work for them. (If you find yourself unemployed because of this whole coronavirus shebazzle going on at the moment, it might be worth having a lil look at this website). I was pondering about trying to find something online to top up my pennies and I came across the chance to write a book.
The book is about Salta, Argentina. The series is called “Greater Than A Tourist”, and the idea is that if you have lived somewhere for 3 months or over, you could apply to write a book for your location, giving 50 tips and tricks for how to go on holiday to that place and be more like a local than a tourist. When I was doing the application to apply for this, I, very naively, said I would probably be able to complete it within a week. How long should it take right? Just need to bosh 9000 words out about a place I know fairly well, easy peasy right?! Thankfully, I was given a more reasonable deadline of four months to complete it. And complete it I did! It took me about three months but I thoroughly enjoyed it. I’ve always loved writing and this was a perfect project for me, as it involved my love of chatty, informal writing and Argentina, a very important part of my life.
The only bummer about it is that I didn’t really get paid for it and I don’t get royalties from the book, but, I’ve been told I could set up an Amazon associates page by which I might receive some money from it, though I’m not quite sure how this works 😂 if anyone knows, please hit me up!
Even though I haven’t really gained from it in terms of money, it’s been super fun and exciting writing it! I reckon it’ll be a great extra random thing to have on my CV and also a great random fact about myself to whack out from time to time.
So there ya have it! Ya gal Nadz is officially an author !! Once it’s all finished and available to buy I shall put the link in a future blog post if you fancy a little sneak!
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