Generate Google AdSense revenue with Docstoc

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My dear, sweet old (old, old... :wink: ) Mom sent me an email this morning with a link to the Hick Chick Meal Planner and a brief but certain commentary: "You need this!" I immediately downloaded the Meal Planner, but what struck me was Docstoc itself.

My initial impression of Docstoc is that it's not only a great source of free and affordable documents "for small businesses and professionals", but had good potential as a nice source of revenue. Apparently there are more ways to earn, but what interested me is the potential to earn from both creating and selling documents, and the AdSense revenue generated by offering them both for sale and for free. According to DocStoc, "Sign up for DocCash and we'll split (50/50) the revenue we generate by displaying advertisements alongside your documents."

Be sure to check out the Why Upload Documents section of the website for more information. There you will find many helpful links, including how to Generate Extra Cash From the Documents You Upload to Docstoc (via Google AdSense), and the FAQs on Selling Documents on Docstoc.

I am not being compensated in any way for this post. I just want you to explore it as a possible source of active and passive income for you and your family. I'm saintly like that.

P.S. If you want to create .pdf files from your Word docs like the Hick Chicks did, a great free tool is CutePDF. Good luck!

Can you dig it?

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I was driving to get my toes splashed with color when the light flicked to “Whoa, now – you hear?” Off to my right a teen in pj bottoms was dancing a sign to life, announcing a Girl’s Club sale. I couldn’t help but smile and watch her as I pressed to a stop. When it was time to “Giddyap” I caught sight of another girl to my left hotfooting in slippers, waving a similar sign, completely devoid of self-consciousness or fear. White to the right of me, black to the left. Freckles. Giggles. Toes. It was as though God himself had opened up the Heavens and spat out a perfect moment just to remind me that he could.

I was warm and fuzzying myself into a Zen-like froth when but two blocks later I spied no fewer than six young men, only one white, giggling although I’m sure they would deny it and prancing and goofing with signs and a box one of them had turned into a makeshift car. Turns out the East Plano Football team had a fund-raiser going on at Sonic and they were there to siren us in.

It was all I could do not to pull to the side to double over with joy. It’s been that long, you see, since I’ve seen teenagers of any color unabashedly acting like children. Some preconceived notions I’d packed from California to Texas slipped out of me and seeped into the sewer where they belong.

Delight reared its ugly head. When I arrived at my destination I asked to have my toes painted a surly shade of OPI “Can you dig it?”

Turns out I can dig it. Ain't it cool?

The Wizardess of the Willows

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A friend of mine who will go unnamed, *cough* Holly Jahangiri, otherwise known as the Wizardess of the Willows, Thwartress of Wallows, opened a massive, steaming can of slap-upside-the-head on my Facebook page last weekend. She was responding to my response to another person who will go unnamed, *cough* Unfinished Person, who had asked how the writing was going. In so many words, I admitted that I was struggling a bit because it goes against every parenting impulse I have to tune out of hyper-vigilance into the altered state of twilight, (neither wakeful nor asleep), where I do my best writing.

Her Wizardessness suggested that while my children are small I might want to think about creating stories for them instead of concentrating on adult novels. I countered with, "But... but... I don't know how" (in so many words) and she volleyed a, "Kill the inner critic and just do it! You can write. You read to your children. Write what your children would like to read." (In so many words). Then she kicked me square in the behind. 8O

And so I'm thinking about this thought as one thinks about thoughts in a thinking sort of way, and all I can come up with is, "But...  if only I could draw, I'd make the fear go away..." .

And putting my butt against the wall. 8O

So now I'm thinking of stories. How does one tell a story on the fly? Does one sit on the fly and tell a story? I'm less prone to act, more apt to worry.

Writing prompts! I need to find a website with writing prompts for children's stories. Oops, there isn't one. Oops, yes there is. But I can only find prompts for Christmas and Easter. It's neither Christmas, nor Easter, so those prompts are certainly of no use to me.

Ouch! 8O

I suppose I could give one a try. Or create my own prompt. But I don't know how to do that.

8O

Okay! I know how. I'll do it right now. :D