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[Phalon]

So, are you going to take the plunge?

[Mini Mia]

May 21, 2013 6:24:29 GMT -6 Phalon said:

So, are you going to take the plunge?

With Story Cartel? I don't know.

With Indie-Publishing? Yes. However, I'm not going to make the same mistake and say when. I keep running into snags, and the deadline passes, and the next deadline passes, and so on. I'd been looking at sites for images for the book covers, and some state their images can't be used for POD or products, which is where I was going. Someone on Holly Lisle's Boot Camp forum suggested a site that I'm going to check out. But I have to learn Gimp in order to make a book cover. And then, I have to format the books. And I've no idea if I'm any good at making a book cover. I'm going to give it my best shot.

But, yes, I'll take the plunge, eventually. And I'd love for it to be this year. Holly's 3-week Flash Fiction course is about getting published. 2,500 words is the least amount of wordage for an eBook for the Kindle. So, at the end of Holly's course, she hopes her students will have 5 completed 500 word stories they can put into one eBook to indie-publish. It's her goal that her students put out several Flash Fiction anthologies that can earn them money while they work on their novels.

I have 4 FF pieces I'd already been working on, so I got them out, dusted them off, and have finished two of them. I'll need to write up a 5th one to complete one eBook. And I have several short stories that should be over 2,500 words each. I'll rework them too, and format them into separate eBooks. I will sell all the short pieces for 99-cents. The three ABC works will probably be a little higher. $2.99 maybe? I'm trying to decide if I should search for images to go along with some of the words of each of the letters. One of the formatting books mention that it might be best to know coding if using images within an eBook. That scared me off of trying it. Then I though maybe I'd learn code.

So, I've been procrastinating . . . getting distracted and moving on to other ideas . . . making mountains out of mole hills. I'm scared. Scared of failure. Scared of success. And I'm letting my fears choke me into putting it all off for just a little longer, and a little longer. And I'm waiting for me to get tired of it all and just do it. Because I tend to come to a point where I blow it all off and just do it. And then I wonder why I waited so dad-dang long. You'd think I'd learn to jump past all the worry and fear and holding myself back by now.

So, if not this year, hopefully next? Soon. I'm definitely doing it. It's just a matter of when I get my act together. And I'm hoping that this course will be the push I need.

And you know I'm going to kick myself afterwards for not doing it years ago. Same-O, same-O. At my age I don't think I'm going to change the way I do things.