Well, it finally happened.
Apr. 10th, 2013 05:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexandraerinFor the first time in the three and a half weeks that I've been back in Omaha, today I had a writing day where I can't write. I'm just not up to it. It's some combination of tiredness and a pill thing I'm not going to get into here. I'm not falling asleep and I'm not totally beset by brain fog, but I lack the necessary spark to get a chapter started, much less fill it out in any way.
It's something that was bound to happen sooner or later, and it did. But you know what? It affects nothing. I'm still ahead. And maybe because I know that failure to create is not going to put me behind, I've had a productive day anyway. I learned how to use B&N's "Nook Press" site. I've actually got the Tales of MU ebook manuscript all ready to go in it, though they won't let me submit it for publication until they verify my payment information. It handles chapter breaks and links in a kind of weird way, at least when coming from a manuscript that was set up for Kindle, so I had to redo a lot of that stuff. In the process I discovered some inconsistencies in how I had some links set up in the original manuscript, so I fixed them and re-uploaded that to Amazon.
Once my account is verified and assuming the publishing process goes smoothly, Nook users can look forwards to having my short stories in the Nook store, as well. I'll be playing catchup with them for a while, but in the future Nook might get some of my stuff first... the user experience for publishers is very good. Nook even gives a slightly better royalty on 99 cent works compared to Amazon, though that's balanced out by slightly lower one for $2.99 stuff.
I also started work on the book 2 ebook. Still no ETA on it. If it's not finished before Wiscon, it will probably not be finished until the middle of summer, which is the next time I'll be back in Nebraska. But even that's better than my original estimate of "sometime after I move".
It's something that was bound to happen sooner or later, and it did. But you know what? It affects nothing. I'm still ahead. And maybe because I know that failure to create is not going to put me behind, I've had a productive day anyway. I learned how to use B&N's "Nook Press" site. I've actually got the Tales of MU ebook manuscript all ready to go in it, though they won't let me submit it for publication until they verify my payment information. It handles chapter breaks and links in a kind of weird way, at least when coming from a manuscript that was set up for Kindle, so I had to redo a lot of that stuff. In the process I discovered some inconsistencies in how I had some links set up in the original manuscript, so I fixed them and re-uploaded that to Amazon.
Once my account is verified and assuming the publishing process goes smoothly, Nook users can look forwards to having my short stories in the Nook store, as well. I'll be playing catchup with them for a while, but in the future Nook might get some of my stuff first... the user experience for publishers is very good. Nook even gives a slightly better royalty on 99 cent works compared to Amazon, though that's balanced out by slightly lower one for $2.99 stuff.
I also started work on the book 2 ebook. Still no ETA on it. If it's not finished before Wiscon, it will probably not be finished until the middle of summer, which is the next time I'll be back in Nebraska. But even that's better than my original estimate of "sometime after I move".