After a decade of blogging, and reducing the production rate of my posts to a
great degree, I am finally in demand. I do not know what it means, but several
other blogger/web sites are contacting me. They want to create some ties between
my blog posts and their sites.
What can I say? I still get next to no comments. Perhaps I leave people
speechless.
My book reviews have been acclaimed, in demand, and I have been offered an
opportunity to evaluate books for a much higher fee. It actually works out to
over $2/hr for my efforts. My star is surely rising.
The push is on to finish my short stories and get on to bigger novels.
I finished one short story and took a break; rewarded myself. Nearly four
hours of battling over the felt, playing poker, and I walked away with a $30
profit. $8/hr. Of course I had to wait forever to get a seat.
In the world of self publishing all is not free. I could easily put out
$2,000 for editing, cover design and a bit of marketing. Creating demand for
your creations is not cheap. Perhaps if I were the only self published author
out there I would have a pretty good chance of getting a following, but there
are millions.
Selling a thousand units might bring you a small profit on that type of
investment, but it is nothing when consider in terms of an hourly rate for all
the wherewithal it took you to produce your book.
Demands on my time and efforts are yet immense, and still without financial
reward. The yard and garden need care before the Winter hits full boar; those
boars can be dangerous. The house is in need of constant improvements… and I
never have the car to get out and buy what I need. When I do get the car I am
usually driving my wife somewhere.
My wife and I are discussing how we can be free from our retail business as
it throws off everything. It breaks any momentum I build in my writing and puts
us on a cycle of late nights and late mornings.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Thanks for reading.
