Second Story Pubbed

I put off polishing up my second story all weekend. I just found different excuses to postpone it another day and another day and another day and suddenly it was coming up on a week since my first release when I want to eventually get into the groove of releasing a story every other day. On top of that, it's now the end of the month and I wasn't about to have just one story in all of April after I started working on this project in late March. So I told myself last night: "You don't get to watch the next episode of Fargo until you have your next story published, missy." Lo and behold, it worked! I went to the library to make sure I wasn't alone to have 'alone time' all to myself so I could actually get my story finished and not get arrested for touching myself in a public place. It actually helped me focus, knowing that any eyes would be on me if I were to start wandering into distraction territory. Plus I really want to watch the third episode of Fargo, which I'm actually going to do right now. I gotta try withholding things from myself until I get stuff done more often. I might actually turn out to be really productive at writing these things.

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.

Publishing My First eBook

Everyone's gotta start somewhere, so I figured I might as well get a head start at starting before I finish school and get my diploma. I've had a few stories saved up for a while and I've finally figured that sharing them now with the world is better than waiting or just not doing it at all, so I'm going to try to use this blog and document my experience with self-publishing disgustingly raunchy erotica short stories in order to start my writing career. I'd like to think my writing will take me somewhere, but for the foreseeable future I'll be here formatting my short stories and making lame cover art in an attempt to make some rent money by the time I get my diploma in May 2014.

If all goes as planned, I should have my first story up tonight. This blog post will hopefully be a motivator for me to get that story up as my deadlines are usually made up in my mind and they become very flexible when I get closer and closer to the due date. "Hmm, maybe I'll just do it tomorrow instead." No, not this time, Gaia. The longer you take to do something, the less time you have to enjoy the completion of your accomplishment. I've had that thought sort of floating in my mind for the longest time but I've been such a huge procrastinator—especially as of late. Here's hoping I can finally get that spark of motivation I need.

Feel free to join me (or don't, I'm not your mom) as I attempt to work my way up in the filthy back alleyway of the world that is short story erotica self-publishing.


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