PAULA NEAL MOONEY

I've got that "Bad Girl Ri Ri" song lyric kind of stuck in my head, whilst I feel like I'm doing 10 things at once. But I love to give myself link love and inform anyone who's reading of the latest business ventures I'm undertaking, so here goes: #1 - I just published a book letting people know how I made more than $7,000 in 6 months by finding paying freelance writing clients on Elance . #2 - I wrote a long blog post about an impressive kid who has published 70 Kindle books that made him $7,247 in one month in December 2013. #3 - Still writing for the jobs I like on Elance, the ones who appreciate my writing skills and public platform. #4 - Considering selling a website -- my first go at using Flippa to sell a successful website . Part of me is thinking of dropping the price for the sale. The other part of me is perfectly fine with holding onto the website, since it brings in around $300 per month easily, and I hardly have to touch it. Okay, I th...

Okay, the duck face selfie is out, but apparently not in my book -- or on my blog, more rightly. I just wrote a blog post about making around $30,000 in 2013 from writing online , that hopefully makes some semblance of sense. Or a whole more than that. It's a new year and I'm focusing on the writing that intrigues me and helps me and helps you, so there's a gem if you follow all those links. That's what I've learned it's all about: the links, from major trustworthy websites with lots of "domain authority" and "page authority." Ay yi yi…this SEO world is every-changing but quite interesting nonetheless. Time to pass out and hit it again tomorrow. Always more to write...

Geesh! They say you can't change what you don't acknowledge, and I just tried to deny that the scale says 180.4 pounds when I just weighed myself. Yes, I am 5-feet 10 1/2-inches tall, and that volleyball player Gabrielle Reece looked pretty slim at 6 feet tall and 177 pounds of solid muscle, but I must admit I am more comfortable around 148 pounds. So now that all the Thanksgiving turkey and good stuff has been eaten, and now that it is a new month of December 2013, I've been doing the Robek's smoothie thing and salads and keeping it around 1600 cal per day, which has helped me slim down in the past using that MyFitnessPal app that I love. Knowing me, I will probably write a book about my weight loss journey, or at least articles or something so I wanted to get photos that track this weight-loss at the beginning, in the middle, and towards the end. Come along with me…

...what would you write? That's the intriguing question I posed to both my husband and our cool waitress the other night at The Olive Garden, after seeing that thought-inducing Flight movie starring Denzel Washington. And now, I pose it to you. I guess the query rolled around in my mind after I realized how prophetic some writings from a year ago turned out to be. Not all of them, but the fact that I watched a couple of things transpire in real life that I'd already written about tripped me out and has me focusing on the " prophetic writings " that the Bible speaks of, and the many times things took place in real life so that " Scripture might be fulfilled ." "Pink Mist" on Grey's Anatomy There was an episode of Grey's Anatomy whereby a person had been impaled with an unexploded device, and the surgeons had to remove it gingerly. That bomb ended up exploding, creating a "pink mist" of blood and other stuff in ...

...makes for a nice 365-page (or so) book in one year. It helps to think of it that way.

This morning when I began my workday and checked my checking accounts, I noticed an interesting new " Google Inc. EDI PYMNTS CCD US00000LA1 " in my business account for more than $200 and wondered what it was. After all, I thought for a second it might be a nice little unexpected bonus or something from the Big G -- because that was an unfamiliar term to me. It's not like the deposits I get from Amazon, whereby I have to figure out if they are the blessed monies from my product sales on Amazon that blessedly pay off my American Express and other credit card bills , or the trickle of Kindle book income that Amazon pays me (till I get on my duff and fricking write that " From Slut to Saint " best-seller already!) or the regular Amazon Associates referral income that surprisingly and wonderfully pulls in close to $500 for the month off of mostly one-off articles like this about Kindle coupon codes and stuff: My Amazon Associates Income from August 1 ...

I love getting money in the mail box, snail-mailed in the old fashioned way that some places who don't pay me via direct deposit or through my PayPal account still pay me. Today I got an unfamiliar check in the mail, like a little postcard with a curious return address: Hanson v. Google Settlement Fund c/o Gilard & Co. LLC P.O. Box 719088 San Diego, CA 92171-9088 With that "please open immediately -- important material inside" message on the front and my name following the "pay to the order of" line inside, I wondered if it was a scam. So I Googled information about the lawsuit and vaguely perhaps remembering hearing about this Google Adwords settlement that those of us who've paid Google to advertise various things are now receiving checks for as recompense for overpayment. I love it. My cut of the booty thus far? A whopping 17 cents...but I'll take it. Plus, other folks are getting more than one check. Perhaps one check for each A...