Tuesday, November 6th

The Daily Report

Totally celebrating two days in a row with a status post.

Not much more to report beyond that. We're having a quiet day here, by choice.

The State of the Me

Doing well. A week or so before I came here, I started taking a supplement called 5-HTP on the recommendation of a commenter. It's not cheap, but... well... in the time I've been taking it, my sleep and my mood and my energy levels have all not just improved, but stabilized quite a bit. I actually do better with 5-HTP and without my usual braining pills (gingko and ginseng) than the other way around. It's hard to judge the effect on my sleep, because it's cold and I tend to sleep well when I'm here.

Plans For Today

I'm trying a new approach on the chapter I kept failing to write last week, and poking around on the e-book.

Also...

I've finally stuck my toe into the waters of Smashwords. So, for people who've wanted to buy my short stories but couldn't or wouldn't while they were only available on Amazon, I have one available now, the fantasy story "A Matter of Appearances". It's a small start, but I'll be getting the rest up soon. I just wanted to make sure I knew what I was doing.

There are a few glitches with it... in particular, I've disabled the sample because if I set it at the recommended 30% the generated sample was empty and if I set it at 50% it contained the whole story. I'll have to go digging in the FAQ to see if I can figure out what's going on. Since I'm only marketing it to my existing readers at the moment, I'm not too concerned, but I'll need to get the sample thing straightened out if I want to get new ones.