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Saturday, September 8th
Sep. 8th, 2012 12:34 pmThe Daily Report
I've been really tired yesterday and today... not unexpected since I hardly slept during my recent trip, and while I've slept normally (as in "like a normal person", not anything that might constitute normal for me) since then, I've got some catching up to do.
I've been doing some reflecting on the things that make me lose momentum when I'm riding high. Like how my e-publishing initiative LitSnacks didn't go anywhere... okay, there's one major reason that I burned out on everything having to do with the first e-book I published and I'm not going to rehash that here. But another obstacle is the fact that doing the digital fulfillment by hand is a hassle and creating/integrating a shopping cart system to do it for me also seems like a hassle.
Well, we're more than a decade into the 21st century so fortunately those aren't the only two options. I'm checking out a platform called "sellfy" that works in an extremely simple and straightforward manner: upload files, set price, copy and paste HTML for button into webpage. No set-up or subscription fees, and 5% transaction fee. Seems to suit my needs perfectly. If it doesn't work or I find something better? It's not like I'm invested in this one platform.
This one little thing has actually been a major hang-up when it comes to getting anything done in the e-book arena... it's not the only thing, but it's been a major source of inertia. I have all these e-book projects that are almost done but they need a shot of inertia to finish them off and then there are these things coming into view over the horizon: oh, I have to figure out how to sell them on my website. Oh, I have to get them onto Smashwords. Smashwords is my next obstacle, and while I'm sure intellectually it won't actually be that hard, until I've done it it just kind of... looms.
The State of the Me
Okay. Tired but sleeping often and well.
Plans For Today
I hope nobody's expecting something really dynamite for the next Tales of MU chapter, like I delayed it because it's going to be awesome. It's going to be pretty much a normal chapter. I started it over three days ago and I'm finishing it today. I'm not saying it's a bad chapter, just sometimes I hold things back because I see a way to make it awesome and sometimes I hold them back because it needs to be acceptable. This is the latter.
I've been really tired yesterday and today... not unexpected since I hardly slept during my recent trip, and while I've slept normally (as in "like a normal person", not anything that might constitute normal for me) since then, I've got some catching up to do.
I've been doing some reflecting on the things that make me lose momentum when I'm riding high. Like how my e-publishing initiative LitSnacks didn't go anywhere... okay, there's one major reason that I burned out on everything having to do with the first e-book I published and I'm not going to rehash that here. But another obstacle is the fact that doing the digital fulfillment by hand is a hassle and creating/integrating a shopping cart system to do it for me also seems like a hassle.
Well, we're more than a decade into the 21st century so fortunately those aren't the only two options. I'm checking out a platform called "sellfy" that works in an extremely simple and straightforward manner: upload files, set price, copy and paste HTML for button into webpage. No set-up or subscription fees, and 5% transaction fee. Seems to suit my needs perfectly. If it doesn't work or I find something better? It's not like I'm invested in this one platform.
This one little thing has actually been a major hang-up when it comes to getting anything done in the e-book arena... it's not the only thing, but it's been a major source of inertia. I have all these e-book projects that are almost done but they need a shot of inertia to finish them off and then there are these things coming into view over the horizon: oh, I have to figure out how to sell them on my website. Oh, I have to get them onto Smashwords. Smashwords is my next obstacle, and while I'm sure intellectually it won't actually be that hard, until I've done it it just kind of... looms.
The State of the Me
Okay. Tired but sleeping often and well.
Plans For Today
I hope nobody's expecting something really dynamite for the next Tales of MU chapter, like I delayed it because it's going to be awesome. It's going to be pretty much a normal chapter. I started it over three days ago and I'm finishing it today. I'm not saying it's a bad chapter, just sometimes I hold things back because I see a way to make it awesome and sometimes I hold them back because it needs to be acceptable. This is the latter.