Update: 14th November 2013

[k_a_webb]

The first thing I need to do is get the general fund sorted. Currently I have £51 in there that are all going towards already written Donor House stories, so, instead of putting up a poll for every single story, I’m going to chose the stories. This is because, at the current cost for 1000 words, I’ll be posting nearly every story I have available for this collection, and, to be honest, my polls don’t get enough interest for that to work for something like this. So I’ll be starting that today and I’ll be able to post some of my favourite stories.

What I will need to do is start writing new stories for the collection, so it would really help me out if someone could purchase the Donor House rentals that are available, as those stories will be sponsorable one month after they’ve been sent to the purchaser. Having a reason to write stories means I write faster and it means I have set deadlines for them. I will admit that I sometimes miss those deadlines, due to unexpected circumstances, but you’ll always get a little extra if that happens.

In the next couple of days I’m going to begin working on my to-do list, as I have been writing write more continuations this week. Getting back to my worlds has been great and it would be wonderful if I could earn enough from the website that I don’t need to advertise for any more ghostwriting jobs. I earn about £40 a week from the day care, although some months I get more if we’re busy; I was making £80 a month from the ghostwriting, but I won’t be going on to write the next story until the end of this year or the beginning of next, and having that meant I’ve been able to pay half the rent every month since September. The feeling of being able to really help James has been wonderful and I don’t want to lose that – so I need to be earning about £110 more a month.

For those of you who are interested the money goes first towards the groceries, which cost at least £80 a month. This is without any luxuries, but with James working night shifts we get through a lot of pasta because it’s an easy thing to heat up. We don’t even buy chicken most of the time, as it’s an expensive meat, and spending all that money can sometimes be a little depressing when you get so little for it. Then I like to be able to pay for my half of the rent, which is £190 a month, because James ended up draining his savings when he was off and being able to pay that means he has money he can put towards petrol (which is another expensive need – because without it he can’t get to work) and paying for his prescriptions, that would have once been on top of the rent.

It doesn’t seem to me like the antibiotics are doing much, so that means he’s probably going to be returning to the doctors next week to see what the next step is going to be. With him back at work the appointments are going to need to be in the afternoon so he can sleep before them or on one of his two days off. Honestly I have no idea what might happen in the next month with this, but hopefully we can either get it sorted or managed, even though James is wary of being on pills because he worries that he might get better and the pills will be masking it, so he thinks there’s still a problem. I get why he worries, as it’s a logical worry, but working in retail isn’t easy when you’re in daily pain and I think it might be a case of just going with the pills in the short term, just so he can get to work.

Another thing I’m thinking about is what to do about my LiveJournal and Dreamwidth account, because with my change of name I shouldn’t have them under the Jones name, and yet I don’t have the money to be able to rename both of them. Do I start new accounts and have them under the Webb name, posting all the fiction as new? Do I make a community on each site for my work? Do I rename one account and simply leave the other? I’m not sure what I’m going to do, so input would be really appreciated.

Mirrored from K. A. Webb Writing.

Comments

Hmm...

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

I'd say rename the site that gets the most traffic/comments first. Then when you can afford to rename the other one, do that.