First Publication - First Impressions

I self-published my first story earlier tonight on Smashwords and Amazon and I'm trying to encourage myself to continue to write more. It's hard to get motivated when I look at the mountain that I have to climb in order to actually be able to sell enough books to actually make money off of the time investment. It's certainly not insurmountable, it just requires a lot of luck, something I haven't been too good with as of late. Hopefully I'll sell a few books to make back the money I spent on cover art. I'll consider breaking even on that a huge accomplishment. I guess it's back to polishing off my next story tomorrow for release later this week.