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Wednesday, October 1st
Oct. 1st, 2014 07:10 amThe Daily Report
Well, it's the start of the month. Between this and a very definite sense of transition if not closure that I got after receiving Dorian's remains yesterday, today has such a strong feeling of being a beginning that it took me three tries to not type "Monday" up there in the subject line. I'm also about a week away from the one year anniversary of the move, which is kind of bittersweet to think about under the circumstances, so I'm kind of not going to focus on it. Instead, onward.
This month I'll be re-focusing on Patreon. I'll confess to having gotten a little gunshy, despite my initial enthusiasm, after so many months of an inconsistent timing and method for the payout. I always did get paid, just not in a way that made it possible to plan my bill payments and things for the month. But! Last month they announced a resolution for this, and while it will take a few months in a row before I can fully trust it, I think it's time to start seizing the potential it creates. Despite my lack of promotion, there were a spate of new subscribers in September, and we're now very close to the next milestone (at $388 of $400), at which point I'll be implementing ad-free logins for patrons on Tales of MU. I think it'll be easier to sell new people on it at that point, as there will be a more immediate tangible benefit.
I'm also committing to releasing the first test version of Adventure Song at the end of the month. This is something that's difficult for me, so I'm holding myself to a motto of "playable, not finished".
The State of the Me
Doing okay. Had some mild insomnia last night.
Plans For Today
This morning I'm going to be compiling Omnibus VI. Part of the problem I ran into last month--even before the big life-changing thing--was that I was trying to jump in and plow through the whole thing the way I've done when I'm already on a roll, book formatting wise. At my best, I've done fifty or sixty chapters worth of compilation and formatting in a two hour block, but trying to commit to that out of nowhere just ends up feeling daunting. I think when moving between tasks, I need to be more tortoise than hare.
In the early afternoon, I'm going to be continuing to do some of the getting things done around the house that I started the other week. I made a whole lot of progress in the days after Dorian's death in getting things unpacked and set up and moved around, but I've begun to fall back into the same malaise-y habits of my life before.
Late afternoon will be writing.
Well, it's the start of the month. Between this and a very definite sense of transition if not closure that I got after receiving Dorian's remains yesterday, today has such a strong feeling of being a beginning that it took me three tries to not type "Monday" up there in the subject line. I'm also about a week away from the one year anniversary of the move, which is kind of bittersweet to think about under the circumstances, so I'm kind of not going to focus on it. Instead, onward.
This month I'll be re-focusing on Patreon. I'll confess to having gotten a little gunshy, despite my initial enthusiasm, after so many months of an inconsistent timing and method for the payout. I always did get paid, just not in a way that made it possible to plan my bill payments and things for the month. But! Last month they announced a resolution for this, and while it will take a few months in a row before I can fully trust it, I think it's time to start seizing the potential it creates. Despite my lack of promotion, there were a spate of new subscribers in September, and we're now very close to the next milestone (at $388 of $400), at which point I'll be implementing ad-free logins for patrons on Tales of MU. I think it'll be easier to sell new people on it at that point, as there will be a more immediate tangible benefit.
I'm also committing to releasing the first test version of Adventure Song at the end of the month. This is something that's difficult for me, so I'm holding myself to a motto of "playable, not finished".
The State of the Me
Doing okay. Had some mild insomnia last night.
Plans For Today
This morning I'm going to be compiling Omnibus VI. Part of the problem I ran into last month--even before the big life-changing thing--was that I was trying to jump in and plow through the whole thing the way I've done when I'm already on a roll, book formatting wise. At my best, I've done fifty or sixty chapters worth of compilation and formatting in a two hour block, but trying to commit to that out of nowhere just ends up feeling daunting. I think when moving between tasks, I need to be more tortoise than hare.
In the early afternoon, I'm going to be continuing to do some of the getting things done around the house that I started the other week. I made a whole lot of progress in the days after Dorian's death in getting things unpacked and set up and moved around, but I've begun to fall back into the same malaise-y habits of my life before.
Late afternoon will be writing.