Just finishing editing Unexpected Diversions so I can upload it to Lulu. It's a completed project that just needs some tweaking, not a massive WIP like The Ship. It's a goal I could finish in a week if I buckle down, what's required is an editing pen and some very basic typesetting. Doable if I don't procrastinate.
I just get so damned tired of going halfway and giving up.
I just get so damned tired of going halfway and giving up.
Don't ever let anyone tell you that you can't....
Date: 2009-04-22 11:51 pm (UTC)I used to believe what my mom told me (long, painful story) that I could not do so many of the things I wanted to do - I later found out it was because she didn't want me to be able to do what she failed at.
So Jim helped put me through the training and I worked in medicine as a surgical assistant until my legs decided they'd had enough - and I was fought over by staff to see who would have me with them on certain days.
I could have been doing medicine years earlier, could have had my RN like the Aunt (my dad's sister) who I resemble most - but I listened to the negative instead of the encouragement.
You are a very talented writer - truly, I love your work and not just because there is some mention in some of it of things that call to what's in the back of my twisted psyche.
You have a cheering section - anytime you start flagging, just let the cheerleaders know.
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Date: 2009-04-23 12:22 am (UTC)What advice would you give a first time Lulu user? I have a project I've set for myself for this summer, which I mention here partially so that, having semi-announced it, I will find it harder to blow off.
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Date: 2009-04-23 08:24 am (UTC)Now, marketing products on Lulu is a whole 'nother kettle of fish, which I have yet to do successfully. Of the one product I've thus far put out pubically, I think I've sold a grand total of a half-dozen copies over four years or so.
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Date: 2009-04-23 03:58 am (UTC)But if you finish it in a week, what's a week, luv? That's a 12 pack and a couple of Subway sandwiches!