A Bigger Scratching Post

Been over five years since I messed with this place. Got a lot to dust out, cobwebs to knock loose, and walls to repaint. I know it won’t be the last time I mess around with the settings and looks, but I find it to be fun. Not sure if I’m fully satisfied with what I’ve changed it to, but we’ll see.

So my goals . . .

Ultimately, earn enough money writing stories so that I can quit my day job.

There’s a ton of steps and milestones I have to reach before I can get there.

• Find a story to work on and stick with it until it’s complete. I have several on my table to consider, but I may just revamp one of my FanFictions to an original story. Which works because like a dork I’m the sort of FF writer that never finishes a story. I have a lot to choose from.
• Work on social media and blogging sites to just keep generating content. It’s really just a matter of being constant, consistent, and wield the right hashtags. My lack of time is a constraint, but with a weekly schedule I should be able to keep pace.

• Find a full-time job that is closer to home. This is one I’ve been working on since May. Part of my problem is that I work 35 miles from home down some of the worst freeways that the San Francisco Bay Area has to offer. My commute to and from work can take up three to three and a half hours of my day. After a full day of work I end up exhausted, beat, and my brain is in no mood for writing or anything else. There’s also some major financial stress that’s tied in with this decision, but that’s another post all together.
• See if Patreon or Ko-fi is something I can work with. I’m looking around at what other writers are doing and I’m not 100% sure I can deal with it. I’m not fond of the idea of putting my face in public view … I really just want to write. Again, I’ll see what my options are. Pretty sure there are some hermit/introvert writers out there who are doing okay…. (seriously though let me know if you see any because I’d like to see what they’re doing and how they’re doing it).
• Start poking around into the realm of self-publishing. There are so many options now that it’s easy to get lost and potentially be taken advantage of (that’s my worst fear). It’s not high on the list right now as I don’t have anything on the table to offer, but it will help to start looking now so that when I am closer I won’t have as many jitters.
• Tons of other minor baby step things like clearing out my catalogue of old writings to see if something clicks, making sure I still have time for D&D while not loosing momentum with writing, getting my desk cleared off and organized to make for better writing conditions, and so on and so forth.

It’s a long road and I know I’ll get frustrated, but if I want to be happy, really happy for once, then this is the road I need to take.