PAULA NEAL MOONEY

Okay, so I'm really not starting over, but the lyrics to that song are playing in my mind. I didn't make the cut yet of the 50 semi-finalists on Amazon Studios, so now I'm asking God: What direction should I go? What to do next? Thanks to Him I made $50k in 2010 -- and I have to stop and say wow, seeing as though I used to only make $12k per year from blogging online. My income is increasing. But during 2010, I forgot some of the lessons learned when I took a "How to Get Out of Debt and Into Praise" class at church, wherein I cut up my "fall back" credit card and stopped using it. In 2010 I kinda fell for the "wow you've got such good credit, I rarely see a pre-approved offer for a Chase Business Visa card" line and took the plunge. Months later and $10k more in debt, I'm now researching The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness by Dave Ramsey and figuring out how to be more responsible. I didn't need t...

$50,462.77 total writing income online for 2010 - Thank you Jesus and Examiner.com! On New Year's day I took a few hours to go through all my accounts and see who paid me monies into PayPal, Chase, the now defunct National City, etc. and find the grand total of from gross income for 2010. The drum roll total is $50, 462.77 -- with total expenses I've thus far calculated at $2,737.94 paid for stuff like web adverts, video editing software, web hosting and the like. Hopefully I'll find some more expenses to deduct from that gross income total so my tax situation will be even less. I should be a lot happier. After all, 2009 brought in around $44k... ▷▷▷▷▷▷▷How Much Money Do Bloggers Make Online? 2009 Brought Me $43,932.84 | PAULA NEAL MOONEY And if memory serves, 2008 brought in around $40k. So thank the Lord that my income is rising. I've just been bummed because I feel like I'm taking a good, hard look at myself and how much better I need to get at saving and...

$20k from Amazon Studios: Amazon tells us how to win... It's a great time to be a part of Amazon Studios. I just uploaded the latest scene from my test movie here , so watch and review it if the desire speaks to you. Thanks! Folks are busy hustling to get their screenplays uploaded to Amazon Studios before the first December 31, 2010, deadline -- and Amazon Studios is doing everything they can to keep folks updated on how to get closer to winning those first $20,000 script prizes by chiming in on the forums and on their Facebook and Twitter pages. The cool thing is, not a lot of folks know about the contest yet -- and even few folks have uploaded any kind of "movie" to go with their writing at all. As of this writing, Amazon Studios shows only 183 projects with movies on their site. (Mine is listed at #30 and rising, thank You, Jesus!) So it's best to get in on the ground floor, when the competition is little compared to what it will be when folks finally get...

I am having a ball creating video clips on Amazon Studios that will eventually become one at-least-70-minutes-long test movie that will take home the top prizes in 2011. So for those of you with a creative bend that love writing, I suggest you throw your hat in the ring and write a script "quick fast and in a hurry" and try your hand at creating videos, too. I've been so into YouTube and the creations folks are coming up with and the variety of ways people use YouTube -- plus using Pinnacle Studio Ultimate Collection V14 for creating movie clips. At first I felt bad since I'm not yet using Final Cut Studio on a new Mac Book Pro and the like, but this kid on YouTube gave me inspiration yesterday. He has some fabulous movies, and he urged his viewers and readers to just borrow a video camera if they didn't have one, saying it's all about the creative process, not the "non-top-of-the-line" equipment. Stay tuned for more video clips, and give...

Amazon.com paying $20,000 to winning writers of screenplay contest I'm so geeked that Amazon.com has launched this new screenwriting competition on Amazon Studios -- I uploaded my script From Slut to Saint on their website Friday, December 3, 2010. If you're a writer with a great screenplay sitting around your laptop -- or with one in your head -- I suggest you polish it up and enter the contest. It's not like your average, every day screenplay where you see a lot of hype combined with a hefty entry fee. Amazon Studios' competition is free to enter. Plus, they've partnered with Warner Brothers Pictures in an exclusive first-look deal that will get the top writers' work at least seen -- and hopefully green-lighted -- by Hollywood insiders. It's so cool how God brought this competition around in a time where I'd written the script in 2009, and finally gathered the latest revision up again in Windows Explorer before I'd even heard of Amazon Stu...

Today I spent time starting a couple of YouTube channels that I plan to load up with videos on specific topics. First there's the YouTube.com channel called YourTubeVideoEditing (looks like YouTube doesn't let you create a channel with YouTube in the URL) wherein I plan to upload all sorts of techie tips about video editing, from the basic to the advanced. The first video on that YouTube Channel explains how people can upload DVD content to YouTube -- something I learned how to do for my church. The second YouTube channel is called Real Customer Reviews and that's where I plan to upload videos about just that: all the real stuff I come across and what I really think of the products and services. The channels are mainly for search-engine traffic, those folks looking specifically for the product or service I'm discussing. I'm amazed that YouTube is the second most popular search engine, only after Google, according to ComScore past reports. So why overl...

PBS covers Examiner.com PBS has written about Examiner.com -- and I plan to pour over that article and watch the videos of Rick Blair, CEO of Examiner.com soon. But right now, I just want to jump back on Examiner and write, so I'll read it later. It looks like a good doozy...