More vomit today, this time from toddler DS. Poor thing is quite distressed about losing control, the taste, how he feels, the stickiness of it everywhere... I did get in some writing yesterday, on a train to do domestic errands .
HalfMumHalfBiscuit, I don't have much experience of non-trade press freelancing (and my newspaper days were limited and long ago), but these are probably helpful steps: (1) have a portfolio, which it's possible to cheat into existence nowadays, without having been "published", by blogging (and if the host allows you to monitor site traffic, that could be a tool for marketing your work: "I have X unique hits a week/month"), as an editor wants to know you can actually get a job done; (2) keep an eye on by-lines for names and job titles ("...features editor X found out why", etc.); (3) if a magazine, ring up their advertising people and ask for a forward features list (this also gives you an idea what the deadlines are for copy, so you have enough time to get the feature in). Industry events (exhibitions like baby shows, if that is the field you are concentrating on, given that suggested article?)....
As for writing, I've got hold of an A5 snopake binder (Rymans) and A5 looseleaf paper, as it fits more easily in my nappy bag than the A4 efforts I used to use when I was carrying that sort of thing anyway for school and university. I do like to write a first draft, or two, longhand, then the move to computer can be a radical edit.
Hahaha, artifarti, I know what you mean about endless daily [insert activity here...]. One of the most difficult things for me in the early breastfeeding days was how long it took, and how boring the monotasking was. It's so good to have something else to do or think about. Unfortunately, once I learned to feed one-handed, that was more often neglected correspondence, phone calls and eating, rather than anything properly creative.
Right, off to bed, in time for night-time alerts! Good night, all.