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Mar. 18th, 2015 04:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittydesadeWell, I have no idea what happened last night, I swear I wasn't drunk, and somehow I ended up writing Londo/Lando porn. Yes, as in a Babylon 5/Star Wars crossover. No, I don't know what I was doing. There is actually a link at the top for what little context there is, it's filed under "But why, Kitty? Why?"
Today I have managed to at least make a start at reworking my fiction page so that free stories are available in a variety of formats, and when I get home I will actually encode the damn things into those formats, upload them, and then they will be available. As well as verifying a bunch of information to KDP so I can get things deposited directly into my bank. All $2 every two months I make off of my books. Heh.
I think I'm doing a very good job at not bemoaning not being an instant success, don't you?
I did figure out, though, given the Bad Kindle Self-Pub Cover Art thing going around, that a lot of my problem with things is actually that I have no experience with designing a book cover, very little experience designing a website, no money to pay someone to even slap a few photos together (I have the photos! I even bought them and paid for permission to edit and use them! I just suck at slapping them together), and in general my ability to generate a cover depends on me. Thus I generate embarrassing covers. Thus I do not market, thus.... etc.
Now that things seem to be consistently staying less stressful I might work on this, but it's slow going considering all the other things I want to do. There are so many fiddly things, and I keep putting them off because I don't have my new laptop yet, because working in the office during winter is fucking freezing, because any of half a dozen things. Also that damn office door needs to be replaced, too. It's the little things.
Wednesday Reads!
I devoured and finished Cold Magic by Kate Elliott, which I think might be my favorite of her books that I've read so far. Of course I haven't started re-reading the Crown of Stars series yet, so that might change. Still. It was the book of my soul and I might just pick the damn things up on Kindle next month. Next paycheck. Something. I've already spent way too much of next paycheck on DVDs (for a podcast! It's not entirely willy nilly) and haircut and clothes (incoming from StitchFix) and things. Anyway, I finished that, and now I'm working on the rest of the Crossroads series and this book I picked up called The Anteater of Death.
I have never read anything by this person, I had no idea what it was about when I picked it up, I love Kingdom Hospital and it said anteater of death on the cover, what more do you want from me. I HAVE A GODDAMN ANTUBIS ICON. I'd forgotten I have an Antubis icon.
Anyway. Word count more updateyafter I stop writing for the end of the day. turns out to be 6,460, which is almost week's par but not quite. Still. Close enough for March and folk music. I still need to get better about stretching in the evenings though. And either hold poses in yoga for longer in the mornings or add in some different ones. Maybe both. Both is good.
Today I have managed to at least make a start at reworking my fiction page so that free stories are available in a variety of formats, and when I get home I will actually encode the damn things into those formats, upload them, and then they will be available. As well as verifying a bunch of information to KDP so I can get things deposited directly into my bank. All $2 every two months I make off of my books. Heh.
I think I'm doing a very good job at not bemoaning not being an instant success, don't you?
I did figure out, though, given the Bad Kindle Self-Pub Cover Art thing going around, that a lot of my problem with things is actually that I have no experience with designing a book cover, very little experience designing a website, no money to pay someone to even slap a few photos together (I have the photos! I even bought them and paid for permission to edit and use them! I just suck at slapping them together), and in general my ability to generate a cover depends on me. Thus I generate embarrassing covers. Thus I do not market, thus.... etc.
Now that things seem to be consistently staying less stressful I might work on this, but it's slow going considering all the other things I want to do. There are so many fiddly things, and I keep putting them off because I don't have my new laptop yet, because working in the office during winter is fucking freezing, because any of half a dozen things. Also that damn office door needs to be replaced, too. It's the little things.
Wednesday Reads!
I devoured and finished Cold Magic by Kate Elliott, which I think might be my favorite of her books that I've read so far. Of course I haven't started re-reading the Crown of Stars series yet, so that might change. Still. It was the book of my soul and I might just pick the damn things up on Kindle next month. Next paycheck. Something. I've already spent way too much of next paycheck on DVDs (for a podcast! It's not entirely willy nilly) and haircut and clothes (incoming from StitchFix) and things. Anyway, I finished that, and now I'm working on the rest of the Crossroads series and this book I picked up called The Anteater of Death.
I have never read anything by this person, I had no idea what it was about when I picked it up, I love Kingdom Hospital and it said anteater of death on the cover, what more do you want from me. I HAVE A GODDAMN ANTUBIS ICON. I'd forgotten I have an Antubis icon.
Anyway. Word count more updatey
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Date: 2015-03-19 04:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2015-03-19 04:39 pm (UTC)