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February-May 2017 Wrap Up – Freelance Work

Welcome to my Feb-May 2017 monthly wrap-up! 😉

Life has been rough on me since February, but there are some good news:

• I started seeing a psychotherapist
• I was diagnosed with PSAS (or PGAD) – not a good news, but at least there’s a diagnosis!
• I got started on an hormonal therapy for PCOS and PSAS
• I’m seeing a neurologist soon

We got the Autism spectrum out of the equation, but I might still be a HSP. We’ll see what happens with the next check-ups.

Freelance Work

I got a few articles written and published from February to May, and I’m very proud of each and every piece! 😀

One of my biggest articles for WHSR also earned its own GrowthHackers thread (yay!) and plenty of social shares:

• 24 Golden Rules for Social Media Marketers and Bloggers

I can’t even begin to tell you how immensely proud I am of this article, and how I’m proud of myself for getting it done with only a few days of deadline extension while in the middle of terrible hormonal discharges, sensory overload and anxiety attacks. :’)

Other articles include:

• How Super Bloggers Work: Getting Efficient with A Blog Schedule – I’m so proud of this one! It includes sketchy color illustrations I drew digitally in Paint Tool SAI 😀
• How To Create Effective Content Roundups And Boost Your Traffic – Another piece including a few illustrations by me
• 10 Essential Rules for Effective Snapchat Marketing – This one took a long time to research and understand for the benefit of the marketing industry, because I’m not a Snapchat user myself so I learned it all from case studies, statistics and the people I interviewed for the article
• How Trello Takes Tasks and Tracks Progress – The Full Review – The first post I got published at CoSpot (my new client) 😀

I recently got another WHSR article approved and it should go live in June – “9 Costly Blog Promotion Mistakes to Avoid Like the Plague”. Again, I drew cartoon-y illustrations for each of the nine mistakes. 😀 Hahah! It was fun.

Other articles I’ve done for CoSpot but not published yet include: a guide to managing a blog (for content managers and marketers), a review of the SumoMe plugin and a piece on some content marketing “secrets” I found.

Also, I wrote a guest post on situations when SEO is/isn’t necessary for Relevance. I don’t know yet when they will publish it.

Art Commissions

I resumed working on two commissions I received the last year and couldn’t do for a long time due to my health issues (I can’t really draw when I feel that miserable).

Looking forward to get these done by June 10, because I’m reopening commissions from June 1 to July 31 (8 slots total).

Personal Projects

I rebranded my 15-year old work of science fiction as Rolamaton The Robocity (it was Robocity World previously) and I bought a new domain for it – Rolamaton.com.

Still a big work-in-progress, since I haven’t had a lot of time to properly devote to it due to the “getting sick and hurry catch-up on work” swing. I set a soft deadline for myself to get it done in June, though.

To make up for it, I posted plenty of Rolamaton materials on my DeviantART account, where I have most of my Robocity/Rolamaton fanbase. In chronological order, from March to May:

1. UPDATE! Robocity Fans, The Newsletter is BACK! 🙂
2. A Change In the Upcoming Robocity Contest…
3. Do I have to rename Robocity a bit? Sounds like…
4. Robocity World changes name: it’s Rolamaton now (includes a video of me explaining)
5. Rolamaton Q/A Video #1 (Subtitles + Transcript)
6. Rolamaton The Robocity – Spring Event 2017 (open until June 30, if you’d like to join)
7. Personal Update, New Watchers, Poll Results 😀
8. Unions and Families in Rolamaton

I also registered a Ko-Fi account for fans and friends to buy me a ‘coffee’ ($3) and help me cut down on freelance work a little to make time for Rolamaton, The Robocity and my other fiction works: ko-fi.com/robocityworld

_{NOTE: For every $10 of donation to support my fiction, I will donate $2 to the REAL Rolamaton – my town’s public library (Biblioteca “Carlo Levi”, Genzano di Roma) – because Rolamaton is exactly my town’s library, my refuge, and it runs on public funds and donations. Thanks in advance for helping both the fictional and “the real robocity” thrive!}

Still on DeviantART, I posted a journal entry on why I didn’t become a comic book artist, because I felt I owed an explanation to all my friends who have supported me and my dream for years.

I might update this post later with more wrap-up news.