Did you miss me?
Dec. 6th, 2018 08:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
misterangelHi folks!
When's the last time I posted here? I'm not sure. I've had a lot of anxiety lately, which is partly related to our broadband going down.
It was working, and then it stopped. A traceroute gets to 2 hops (of which the first is our router) and then stops. We called the provider; they had me factory reset the router three times over the course of a 20-minute phone call, and then sent out an engineer. The engineer tested the line, then said we need a new router. We waited for the new router to arrive, then called the ISP, and they said that the engineer hadn't told them they needed to send one, he'd just mentioned it in his report.
Now we're waiting for a router again.
In the mean time, the whole house is using my phone's 3G data as a mobile hotspot. (I had to disable 4GEE, because with the amount of traffic my household is generating, it causes the phone to overheat and I had to keep powering it off for a few minutes once or twice a day). My phone has a 15GB monthly data allowance; I now have 80MB left to last me until the 23rd.
Still, I'm not doing too badly. I've got the house mostly tidy in preparation for a landlord inspection today. My birthday produced a haul of new books, including The Story Grid, which seems to be well worth reading. It kind of complements the technique I'm going to put in my book if I ever get around to writing it.
Another thought actually came to mind on that front. Would anyone be interested in a video series on how I go about fleshing out an idea into a story? Maybe following an idea from two-word high concept ("Billionaire Butler", thanks to a random character generator that gives me no end of ideas), through all the different possibilities, to a plan, to a first draft, and all the way through editing to the final release?
(I could really do with some youtube activity. Because I'm getting some money through Amazon's affiliate scheme; but the main .com version won't let me make money from my links because I can't show them a page that meets some arbitrary minimum number of followers)
Writing isn't going too badly. Not sure how long it is since I last posted, but (in case you didn't see yet) I passed a million words for the year on Nov 30th, and have so far written 16326 this month. Almost all of that is little/AR/AB fiction; of which I now have 2 up on Kindle; one of them posted complete on Wattpad; two now serialising on Wattpad; and 3 more that I'm bouncing between working on.
Exercise, I haven't managed so much lately because if I'm out of the house, my housemate (and editor) currently has no Internet access. This is a little more confusion. She's also about halfway through the first read of a manuscript which she was going to edit for me over the course of October and November. So no new books released under my real name since Nightmare Season, which has now managed a total of 6 sales.
This means my Author Rank has now dropped past the magic line at around 400k, where Amazon seems to stop sending out new book notifications to people who've followed my author page. So the next time I have a book ready, I suspect it'll be a real nightmare trying to get beyond 1 reader.
Anyway; I should stop procrastinating and go out. I woke early this morning (hope it isn't obvious from my writing that I only managed 3½ hours sleep), so maybe I can get my exercise done before everyone else is awake.
Wish me luck!
When's the last time I posted here? I'm not sure. I've had a lot of anxiety lately, which is partly related to our broadband going down.
It was working, and then it stopped. A traceroute gets to 2 hops (of which the first is our router) and then stops. We called the provider; they had me factory reset the router three times over the course of a 20-minute phone call, and then sent out an engineer. The engineer tested the line, then said we need a new router. We waited for the new router to arrive, then called the ISP, and they said that the engineer hadn't told them they needed to send one, he'd just mentioned it in his report.
Now we're waiting for a router again.
In the mean time, the whole house is using my phone's 3G data as a mobile hotspot. (I had to disable 4GEE, because with the amount of traffic my household is generating, it causes the phone to overheat and I had to keep powering it off for a few minutes once or twice a day). My phone has a 15GB monthly data allowance; I now have 80MB left to last me until the 23rd.
Still, I'm not doing too badly. I've got the house mostly tidy in preparation for a landlord inspection today. My birthday produced a haul of new books, including The Story Grid, which seems to be well worth reading. It kind of complements the technique I'm going to put in my book if I ever get around to writing it.
Another thought actually came to mind on that front. Would anyone be interested in a video series on how I go about fleshing out an idea into a story? Maybe following an idea from two-word high concept ("Billionaire Butler", thanks to a random character generator that gives me no end of ideas), through all the different possibilities, to a plan, to a first draft, and all the way through editing to the final release?
(I could really do with some youtube activity. Because I'm getting some money through Amazon's affiliate scheme; but the main .com version won't let me make money from my links because I can't show them a page that meets some arbitrary minimum number of followers)
Writing isn't going too badly. Not sure how long it is since I last posted, but (in case you didn't see yet) I passed a million words for the year on Nov 30th, and have so far written 16326 this month. Almost all of that is little/AR/AB fiction; of which I now have 2 up on Kindle; one of them posted complete on Wattpad; two now serialising on Wattpad; and 3 more that I'm bouncing between working on.
Exercise, I haven't managed so much lately because if I'm out of the house, my housemate (and editor) currently has no Internet access. This is a little more confusion. She's also about halfway through the first read of a manuscript which she was going to edit for me over the course of October and November. So no new books released under my real name since Nightmare Season, which has now managed a total of 6 sales.
This means my Author Rank has now dropped past the magic line at around 400k, where Amazon seems to stop sending out new book notifications to people who've followed my author page. So the next time I have a book ready, I suspect it'll be a real nightmare trying to get beyond 1 reader.
Anyway; I should stop procrastinating and go out. I woke early this morning (hope it isn't obvious from my writing that I only managed 3½ hours sleep), so maybe I can get my exercise done before everyone else is awake.
Wish me luck!
