Well, it is. I hate nasty cold rain, but I love the fact that I am hibernating today with my writing, coffee, and food that can be delivered to me. Life is good. It could be that I gave up and slept my preferred hours last night. I am always happier when I don’t force myself to be awake when normal people are.
So, I have no deep awesome thoughts today. I am just happy. I love my happy, grateful days.
Cynthia came up with a brilliant idea for a log for my site. We need to huddle with the Tina and make it happen. It is very exciting.
Also extremely exciting is that my friend Kathleen is brilliant and did some research and found a way something brilliant AND she shared. I knew that you could sell shorter works on Amazon. I didn’t realize how short stuff is that sells or how much money you could make if you have enough of it. She found for a library of pretty short work (5k to 15k words), a writer can make pretty decent money. You have to be willing to sell it cheap, but for a short piece, I can handle selling it cheap, and money doesn’t start to really happen unless you have a decent library.
The great thing about short shorts is that they write quicker than books. I have this fantastic character and story concept laying about that will translate well into a series of short shorts. I am 2k words into the first story. I am having a blast, and the idea of having something done in days instead of weeks is great. I will still work on my books, of course, but this will allow me to build confidence, complete works, and make some money and contribute to my family (it is a self-worth thing) while writing my books.
The more work you complete as a writer, the better you get. It is a truth. I learned a lot from writing my first book, and I will learn from writing these. After I write about five of them, I am going to sell them on Amazon.com. I will put the first one up for free for a certain amount of days and nag at you guys to download it so I can get numbers, then after a week or so I will put them up for sell for 99 cents.
I’m stoked, if you can’t tell.
I just got distracted by magnets. Imagine what I could accomplish if I didn’t have the attention span of a gnat.
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