Just For Fun | Cathy C. Hall Writes

Found some interesting things this week, so no time to dilly-dally about…

A big Thanks and shout out to my techno-genius bud, Bill Elder, who told me about Daily Booth. It’s a social network that prompts you to catalog your life, one day at a time, through pictures of your face. That’s right, your face. Kind of like the picture booths you see in the malls, only it’s online and allows you to hook up and network with other Daily Boothers and their faces. I have a fantabulous idea for this application, sort of with my face, but not exactly with my face (because even though I am cute as a button (see my face), it takes work to get me looking this cute. Who’s got time for that every day?) So stay tuned! And check out Daily Booth if you just can’t get enough of yourself.

But if you’re not so much into pictures, you should check out Ralan’s, a fantabulous site filled with markets, contests, anthologies and such. I used to check Ralan’s on a regular basis, but then my computer went AWOL (Is she still harping about that? Yes, she is.) and I lost all my bookmarks. Slowly but surely, I’m getting them back where they belong. And thank goodness I remembered Ralan’s, ’cause the markets and such are of the speculative fiction variety (one of my faves for short stories) AND the humor variety (Coincidentally, another big fave). So, if humor and spec fiction is on your Writing To Do List, then zip over to Ralan’s.

And finally, I came across a little tidbit about President Obama and his tweetin’ while he was on the campaign trail. Really? The President on Twitter? Seriously? With all that man has to worry about and he’s busy coming up with 140 character tweets??? Wonder if he’s still tweetin’? ‘Cause if he is, I’m definitely signing up with Twitter.

Then I can say, “Oh, yeah. Me and the President…we’re like this (picture my face, cheek to cheek with you-know-who).”

Looking for ways to make writing pay off? Search no more, my little fund-seekers.

This week, I was a tad busy catching up on web content writing. And I thought, Hey! Here’s a way for a Junior Hall who just happens to be living back at the homestead to generate some funds (or beer money, depending on your perspective on life).

Junior Hall and I sat down to pick a Demand Studios article in which Cathy C. Hall could show him the ropes. I/he wrote “How to Act Like an Anime Character.” People pay for that, you ask? Oh, yeah, they do. I learned tons about anime, and Junior Hall learned how easy it is to write web content articles.

Demand Studios is hiring writers; they pay a flat fee per article. Suite 101 is hiring, too. They pay based on web views, so your articles may not generate funds immediately, but you’ll generate what we in the business like to call a “passive stream of income.” Which is just a fancy way of saying that your writing will pay off while you sit back and do nothing. And Ehow works the same way. You don’t even have to apply to Ehow; just sign up. You could make a living off of writing web content. Or at least enough for a six-pack.

And if you need a break from all that web writing, find out what font you are. Take this quiz here for a little insight into your font personality. I think I came up “Helvetica,” the classic font. Let me know how font-astic you are. Now, off you go! Fonts and funds wait for no man (or woman).