Oddities, Profundities, Profanities and Dad Stuff
Guru’s talk about balance all of the time. I for one am not very good at balance. I have gone through periods where I have been OK at it, but most of the time I can balance about as good as a drunk, one legged beggar in an earthquake. I am working on it though, but I seem to be much more of a planner than one who actually gets $#!^ done.
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Well folks, today I finally finished something that should have been finished many moons ago. I finally finished my author page on Amazon.
I have had a book on Amazon since 2011 and a grand total of 1 sale. Of course, there could be no sales with no promotion. I have neglected my career for too long.
Something has changed lately. I am making myself. I have been timid and hiding for far too long. Now, I have 2 books on Amazon. They are both listed at .99 but free to borrow on Amazon Prime. Of course, you can get a free copy of “The Blogging Mindset” by joining my email list over there in the right sidebar. I can count on one hand how many emails I have sent the past year, so there will not be a ton of mail from me.
English: Downtown Oklahoma City from the southeast. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Anyway, I have actually published on Amazon. This is big for me. I am stealing publishing and marketing ideas from The Consortium, an Oklahoma City based publishing house run in part by my (hold on, name drops here) friends Aaron Pogue, Courtney Cantrell, and Becca Campbell. (links are to their respective blogs)
Now, another part of my empire is AnvilForge Press. I will have to work hard on this over the next few months. A new site, better copywriting, better promotion. It’s all in the works. Now I only have to write some more books to line the virtual shelves with.
Again, this cycle of writing and working has come, and you all can benefit from it. I have had interest in finishing “The Man in the Hazy Suit” and I think I will republish it on here in it’s first form for some Fiction Saturday fun. Then I am going to rewrite the thing and AnvilForge Press will publish it.
I also have other books in the works that I can only hope will rival Harry Potter and spring me to stardom. In the meantime, I blog. Today you should be reading a Stay at Home Dad post, but I had to get this out. Next week, there will be theme days. Maybe I will even write some new Poetry for Tuesday.
Hide and Watch. And just in case you need to buy something from Amazon, please click through my link over there in the sidebar and help me keep this boat floating. It doesn’t cost you anything extra.
Thanks for reading.
-Justin
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Not that there was any way to avoid it, but I am sure you have noticed my lack of postings here on the Catharsis the past couple of weeks. Call it lack of motivation, call it laziness, call it what you will, but I have been absent. I hope that there is someone out there who is at least annoyed by that.
I have written something like this post before and I am sure that if you remember those you are sick of it and are ready to unsubscribe. Let me just say, please don’t. I have ideas again and things to write about but my time is not balanced well at the moment. I could blame it on a number of things including sick kids and a 7 month old who likes to wake up in the middle of the night, but the only person to blame is me.
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Summer is over and it is time to get out my virtual toilet.
I have over 20 post “ideas” that are queued up waiting to be written on this blog. None of them are going to be written!
The inspiration for those posts seems to be gone so why keep them around? I am not. I am going to flush them all! It has been a long summer full of excuses and well, nothing.
I am sure that if you have visited here over the summer you have seen a stream of nothing new. Nothing. Well, that is changing. I am back to writing.
It is September, the kids are back to school, I need to get back to the reasons I started this blog; to write. To get my brain out to the world. To make myself write and get my books done with no more excuses.
How about Poetry Tuesday again? How about Fiction Saturday? How about SAHD Friday? All coming back as well as new and exciting sites.
If you are a human I would like to comment and at least let me know that you are out there and actually reading.
It is time to come back to the reality of this blog, it is nearly 3 years old now. It is time to get my lazy butt writing again.
If you are real, thanks for being here. If you are a robot, 010001010000111100001010100011100110010011101100111011001.
See you tomorrow.
-Justin
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