I'm still trying to get my head on straight after the Christmas break. There's such a lot to do. The advantage of being self employed is that you can choose when, where and how long to work; the disadvantage is that it's easy to think you're working when, in fact, you're busy but not in a constructive moneymaking way.
I have to do a lot of real day-job work (my folk
music agency) which I need to do to the pay the bills, but on top of that there's my writing work which sometimes pays some of the bills and hopefully will pay a bigger percentage of the bills when I sell the first novel. (Note I said when and not if.) And then there's all the stuff I do which earns me nothing, such as: being on the board of directors (company secretary, in fact) of FolkWISE, an organisation aiming to improve the lot of folk performers through cooperative networking; and volunteering at our local village hall, which means I not only write the web page and edit the village's paper newsletter, but I'm also currently on the team writing a quarter of a million pound grant application... so you can guess how much work is involved in that!
And so today, with all that work looming over me I've spent the morning digitising some old photographs, spurred on by
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llygoden's LJ entry about digitising slides. I'm definitely a happy amateur photographer, but sometimes I get a good shot by accident. I'm also a dab hand with photoshop and an average photo can be much improved by cropping and adjusting a few light/contrast values. Just for the record, though, I haven't doctored today's shots because of the time constraint. Take a look at my pics for a sample of what I've been doing today.
