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alexandraerinNews For The Day
Today has been a fairly productive day, though mostly in boring ways. What's interesting to me is that the past two days (i.e., yesterday and today), I have successfully "switched off" from writerbrain and non-writerbrain tasks fairly successfully.
I'm very happy with the way the newsletter's been going. The actual financial returns have been modest but measurable and I hope I will see them continue to grow in the future. There are other less tangible benefits, among them the fact that it's turned out to be a great way to elicit more detailed feedback from my readers. People really respond to the invitations to email me with their thoughts on a particular issue, and some of them do so more expansively than they do in comments. This is especially good for things that aren't Tales of MU... if I post a snippet of something I'm working on here in my blog, I might get like three comments that say "I'd read that.", and it is helpful to know that... it really is, it's encouraging... it's also useful to get a broader sample of more detailed responses.
So those of you who are subscribers are definitely going to be seeing more solicitations like that. I could see a part of the newsletter evolving into something like a running conversation. Dangerously "web 2.0".
Personal Assessment
Quality and length of sleep are good, but it seems very delayed. Part of this is the whole vicious cycle of "I didn't get to sleep until late last night so I slept late this morning so now I can't get to sleep until late", but part of it... well, they call it sleep-onset insomnia for a reason. Believe me, I can feel the difference between "just not tired yet" and "not able to sleep yet"... it's why I sometimes talk about the difference between being tired and being sleepy. It's been going on for almost two weeks. I keep not mentioning it in my assessments because my brain pretty much registers this as "normal".
I think I'm going to try a slightly higher melatonin dose tonight.
Plans For Today
I've been working up a new system for keeping track of sponsors/subscriptions. On top of letting me get the sponsor/subscriber lists caught up and keep them caught up, this is going to give me a way of actually tracking how my sponsorship income changes from month to month. Even when I'm calculating my income I've never had more than a ballpark idea there because I've never needed to separate that out from everything else in my PayPal reports.
I've also been writing for Fantasy In Miniature. I announced a M/W/F in my newsletter and then didn't post one yesterday. Oops. Well, it's long past time I got my electronic calendar back in order. That's the first thing I'll add to it.
Today has been a fairly productive day, though mostly in boring ways. What's interesting to me is that the past two days (i.e., yesterday and today), I have successfully "switched off" from writerbrain and non-writerbrain tasks fairly successfully.
I'm very happy with the way the newsletter's been going. The actual financial returns have been modest but measurable and I hope I will see them continue to grow in the future. There are other less tangible benefits, among them the fact that it's turned out to be a great way to elicit more detailed feedback from my readers. People really respond to the invitations to email me with their thoughts on a particular issue, and some of them do so more expansively than they do in comments. This is especially good for things that aren't Tales of MU... if I post a snippet of something I'm working on here in my blog, I might get like three comments that say "I'd read that.", and it is helpful to know that... it really is, it's encouraging... it's also useful to get a broader sample of more detailed responses.
So those of you who are subscribers are definitely going to be seeing more solicitations like that. I could see a part of the newsletter evolving into something like a running conversation. Dangerously "web 2.0".
Personal Assessment
Quality and length of sleep are good, but it seems very delayed. Part of this is the whole vicious cycle of "I didn't get to sleep until late last night so I slept late this morning so now I can't get to sleep until late", but part of it... well, they call it sleep-onset insomnia for a reason. Believe me, I can feel the difference between "just not tired yet" and "not able to sleep yet"... it's why I sometimes talk about the difference between being tired and being sleepy. It's been going on for almost two weeks. I keep not mentioning it in my assessments because my brain pretty much registers this as "normal".
I think I'm going to try a slightly higher melatonin dose tonight.
Plans For Today
I've been working up a new system for keeping track of sponsors/subscriptions. On top of letting me get the sponsor/subscriber lists caught up and keep them caught up, this is going to give me a way of actually tracking how my sponsorship income changes from month to month. Even when I'm calculating my income I've never had more than a ballpark idea there because I've never needed to separate that out from everything else in my PayPal reports.
I've also been writing for Fantasy In Miniature. I announced a M/W/F in my newsletter and then didn't post one yesterday. Oops. Well, it's long past time I got my electronic calendar back in order. That's the first thing I'll add to it.