Freelance Writer For the Past 5 Years

Sorry for missing my blog schedule. Last week was a little chaotic in my kingdom. My eldest son went back to school and my youngest will be next week. So I was running around like a headless chicken getting my boys settled with orientations and school needs in between sending query letters to various editors and cleaning my home office.

I hope you won’t mind me celebrating my 5th anniversary as a freelance writer with you. Gosh, how time flies from the moment I prayed to have an opportunity to work at home to be with my son. That time, I thought it was impossible, but here I am!

I lasted this long and I hope I’ll stay longer. Freelance writing is my soulmate and I am always grateful to have this chance -to know that this is what I want and it worked perfectly.

If I will assess myself, I think I did pretty good. Not in monetary terms of course. Haha. My family especially my kids come first. I don’t work on weekends and during exam week. Why do Pinoy parents so stress-out with their kids’ exams? haha.

Seriously, I’m very happy that finally I got published. First in other online travel sites like The Circumference for giving me my first by-line as a “writer”.

I grew up reading magazines and forever thankful to Mabuhay Magazine for giving me assignments and mentoring me as a travel writer.

This year’s highlight is the cover story I wrote for Mabuhay Magazine’s December issue.

My longtime clients, what a pleasure growing our businesses together! Thank you for our new-found friendship! Hopefully we can all meet!

I would also like to thank my family and my friends. They are my first readers and fans, just like most bloggers.  I call them my Facebook page’s “auto-likers” and commentators. 🙂

And of course, this simple blog connected me to new people. Real people even if we haven’t met. Thank you for those you took time to read and leave a comment . Only one out of 100 readers leave a comment and I really appreciate that. You know who you are!

I love this blog so much, a birthday gift from my brilliant brother who is a mobile developer ( click here for his site). This really helped me a lot in freelance writing especially when I was a new freelance writer. So thank you little brother.

For the next five years, I hope you will still join me. A simple community sharing different things and being nice to let me share my thoughts with you.

Enough of this narrative, so showbiz already. I think I’m a humblebrag here. haha. So again, thank you!