I am having a pretty good day so far. It's not even 9am yet and I've written over a thousand words [almost finished with SEEKING LIGHT AURORA], already finished with my only two clients I had scheduled today and also got some cleaning in on the facility. It feels good to have a sense of accomplishment. Much better than feeling like your behind all the time or things are falling through the cracks. I credit my sense of stability to David Allen's Getting Things Done system. It is wonderful. I will do a review on it in the near future.
Also News Update: I now have a TLD for my website as an author. It is www.stevenveach.com . I finally pulled the trigger last night while I was watching tv. I was originally going to go with one registrar because they were offering a new domain for $4.99, first year, $10 after that. But, they say the devil is in the details, so on closer inspection, it looks as if they do not provide domain masking except for those people who have hosting plans with them. That's defeats the purpose of having a domain forward to an out-of-box service like blogger. I want to keep costs down [translated: non-existent] until I gain an actual paying audience. So hosting my own blog/website is out of the picture for the foreseeable future. With the mydomains.com I know they offer masking, so it works great. I also found a coupon online and got almost $2 off my first year! Yah!
My 2.0 website [hosted, possibly contracting a web designer] will have a static website + an updated blog design integrated. At least, this is the plan. Have to rustle up a readership though first.
I am two scenes away from finishing the first draft of SEEKING LIGHT AURORA. I'm quite pleased with what I have produced here, though I'm debating on whether I should release it as a novella or beef it up with additional scenes to make it into a novel. It's probably going to be at 100 pages when I'm done [currently it's 19556 words] and I really don't see where I could add anything worthwhile to the story. I think I will leave it as it is and just release it on Amazon as an ebook, see what kind of traction it can get. Thoughts like that remind me of the dancing frog. That's what I see my books as. Very exciting - I have found in my stories this energetic, dancing frog; it is literally a miracle to see. But every time I put the frog out in front of an audience, all I hear is crickets chirping. The enthralling sound of perpetual obscurity. Every author's death nail.
Nothing I can do about that, though. I just have to keep writing, keep adding to my communication platform, to my author brand and maybe - as J.A. Konrath puts it - maybe I'll get lucky. ;-) Here's to getting lucky as an author.
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