Well, I´ve left it rather a long time again since my last post. I´ve been prevaricating, you see! Or rather you don´t because I haven´t produced any content.

I´ve been spending my time considering all aspects of my life and really, I´ve come to the conclusion that it´s far too complicated – I have far too many things going on and not enough time to fit everything in. I´m sure this is a fairly common problem for most people these days, but let me quantify things a little – here, in no particular order, are some of the things I´m trying to cope with:

• My job
• reading my personal emails and getting rid of the spam, so I can actually find the couple of real emails I´ve received!
• trying to find ways to make money online
• reading other peoples websites, supposedly educating myself with the knowledge I need to improve my own websites in terms of both writing quality and earnings potential
• updating this site
• updating my other site, http://www.psychobanana.co.uk
• learning java
• learning how to use, Komposer/NVU, html, css, dreamweaver
• writer´s bureau course
• keeping track of spending and trying to produce some data for my next debt management plan review
• keeping track of my debt management plan progress
• trying to find paid writing opportunities (so far none!)
• trying to find ways of monetising my website
• trying to learn french and spanish
• life in general, looking after my daughter and the missus, and finding the time to actually having a life

All of which is quite a formidable list. The main drains on my time seem to be reading other peoples information on how to make money out of your blog. There seems to be a massive amount of material out there on this subject. That said, you do tend to find yourself going round in circles and back up your own back passage on this subject. Basically, what I´m trying to say is that most of the schemes for making money on the internet seem to revolve around selling courses about how to make money on the internet – it all seems a bit like pyramid selling. I found the same thing when trying to find advice about how to get paid writing opportunities – all the websites about writing seem to be a sales vehicle for the person to tell you how to make money from writing – there doesn´t actually seem to be anyone out there making money from writing by writing about something other than how to make money from writing.

Anyway, as a result of some of my invested time, I do seem to have found a couple of sources of useful information, which I´m going to try and work my way through over the next few days, spare time permitting, and hopefully work through the process here online, so you can see what I´m up to and hopefully it may be of some benefit to someone else. But for now, I´m fresh out of free time again!