I know it's been quiet around here. I've been trying hard to put all my time into writing, even with the crappy economy taking all my time looking for roofing jobs. One of my friends asked me why don't I just "not look for jobs, but instead sit down and write and write instead? Because self-publishing is exploding and she's just read about an author who sold 50,000 copies of her ebook to Kindle and Nook buyers."
It's a very convincing argument, and tempting indeed, to someone like me, who really loves to sit at home and write. But alas, my own RL situation doesn't make it feasible for me to give up the roofing job yet. To be able to do that, I'll have to pay off a big chunk of loans first, and it's not that easy to ignore monthly bills. The thing is, the more in debt you are, the harder it is to take time off to do the thing one loves, and in my case, it's writing consistently.
Writing consistently doesn't actually mean having a lot of free time available. For myself, I need a slot every day that is about the same time, with no outside things requiring my attention, be it calling roofing inspectors, talking to homeowners, or driving county to county looking at and bidding on jobs. The last part is mind-numbing and all that talking and answering the same roofing questions steals more creative energy than I care to admit. It even sucks the fun out of blogging, as you can see here, so much so that I end up having lots of quick thoughts for Facebook but no real in-depth thoughts for here.
I know my readers would prefer to read stories from me rather than my silly chitchat, anyway ;-). So I'm really trying to get myself in gear again. It's all about taking those first few steps in self-publishing to get the income going; the more that income grows, the more it sustains me, and the less I need to go looking for roofing jobs because, hey, look, loans and expenses are being paid off. But it needs work and time, with lots of emphasis on writing work, to get to that point and I'm hoping that two short stories coming out soon will be a start. One will be, FINALLY, the novella that was in the Mammoth Book of Spec Ops Romance, which I've re-edited and re-formatted from PDF for publication through Kindle, Nook, and Smashwords, and the other is a secret short project that I've been nursing during my dry runs wrestling with the big projects I've been trying to finish, sort of a writing-something-not-of-my-genre-to-get-out-of-my-rut exercise. They'll both be priced $1.99, I think, since they're both short stories.
Okay, off I go to write a bit! :) Do catch me on Facebook if you have an account because I seem to be all one-liners lately.
How about you, in your personal life? Have you noticed that you are only good for one or two one-liners, that you're short on words?
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
We're All Getting Shorter
Posted by Gennita at 11:49 AM
Labels: book publishing, deep thought, publishing notes, self-discovery
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2 comments:
Knowing all that you go through to write makes me appreciate your writings more. I received a NOOK recently and am excited about being able to purchase Gennita Low stories for it!
Thank you, Mary, for being so understanding :). It's been difficult trying to explain to many readers about my particular situation.
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