Patreon Update

[k_a_webb]

I have no patrons at Patreon, so I'm thinking of shutting it down. If I was making a little income from it I would leave it as it is, but I don't see the point in expending the extra energy, of which I have so little at the moment, on something that's not helping me towards earning money from my fiction. At the moment I'm barely going on my website - all I'm doing is posting Case, before moving onto something else, so I need to change that, because I'm certain I missed a raffle. That doesn't really matter, because no one's entering them and no one seems to be reading at the website, so I really do need to think about exactly what I'm doing with that. Finishing stories, obviously, is the most important thing, but it's hard to do that when I get so few comments. With my ghostwriting I get input, people tell me they like what I write, which makes it easier for me to focus on that... and it does help that I'm getting paid for it as well.

Being able to make $1200 from my original fiction is now the thing I'm aiming for and to do that I think I'm going to put the novellas at the top of my list, so I can put them online (although I'm still searching for an easier way of doing that, because I don't want to ring the IRS to get an EIN due to my phone phobia), as well as finishing the stories I've started posting, so I can start publishing them as well. What I need is more time, which I won't be getting until 2015 I think, when we're in the annex, because then, I hope, I'll be able to sort everything out better than I have now. The plan is to buy some things that will help me stay organised - like a nice white board for me to write down everything I'm working on.

Comments

[lunesque]

I was just thinking--a whiteboard seems to be a really inconvenient way of keeping all your stories together. Have you considered using GoogleDocs to keep yourself organized--or if you can splurge, what about a writing organization program like Scrivener? With you being online, it just seems to be a step back to be using a whiteboard for organization. Just my two cents! /o\

[k_a_webb]

I have Scrivener - what I need the whiteboard for is writing down all of my current orders on Fiverr, because that will make things simpler. Even though they have a to-do list it's actually not all that useful for me.

Plus, I like having things in front of me, where I can see them just by flicking my eyes in a certain direction.