Undetected plagiarism
Earlier this year, I read Steal Like an Artist and I took a leaf or two out of the book. Stole, literally. Naa, not copied! Stole!
Book summaries I sent. Gallons of plagiarised content, with pints of originality. I did the same with my book recommendation article.
Yeah, I published an article about the best books I read in 2021, two nights ago. And the content is a mix of Goodreads’ book introduction, my own views and others’ reviews I resonated with.
Interested in checking it out? Here - 13 books for writers and marketers
And except for that article and a few others, my December went a bit bland.
I tried going outbound this month. Won’t say I’m liking it a lot, but I did some warm pitching *checks the list* to 6 prospects. A gigantuous number, isn’t it? For me, it is.
I haven’t contacted so many strangers since I stopped using Upwork. Oh, on that note… I revived my Upwork profile too.
Any benefits yet?
Ummm no I haven’t landed any clients. I followed up once with them, but the lazy genes didn’t agree to do it the second time onwards.
One prospect did reply though. They were looking for a freelance meme creator, and they liked my memes.
They asked me to create some memes on the four topics they gave. I whipped up four within an hour, and flew them back on a turtle’s back. But no reply yet. Didn’t feel like following up anymore.
What else happened in December?
Made a Trello board to track pitches and set automated reminders
Wrote a tutorial about a dedicated sign-up page on WordPress website
Won my first-ever giveaway
Read one book - Humour Seriously
Completed two short story collections I picked earlier
Updated my Refrens freelancer profile
Received few books as gift
Worked on two new projects
Apart from those, tried to make a tutorial video of the automated Trello board. Realised I’ll need to speak, instead of typing and flashing text on-screen. So, it’s postponed for now. Will rather prepare a tutorial article.
Ah, I also summarised a podcast episode and published it on Medium - Create your own trail with Salman Ansari
Stealing and surviving. (like an artist?)
Well, that’s all for this month.
Will see you with another irregular newsletter soon. 🐼
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