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Bleh

Goal 1) Publish The Atheist’s Inferno

  • My Goal: 1hr a day min, finish editor’s revision by the end of March
  • Where I planned to be: New scenes finished
  • Where I am: 1.5 scenes left to write
  • On Target or Behind: Jury’s out

How’s It Going:

I’m really bad at updating apparently. I just started on Concerta Tuesday though, so hopefully I’ll be less dead on the weekends.

Still working on the new scenes. They’re a lot more difficult than I expected.

You’re such an inspiration for the ways that I will never ever choose to be

The good news is, I saw my doctor last Monday and she definitely thinks my sleep issues are due to my current dose of Adderall being too high, but I wasn’t vibing on the previous dose, so she’s switching me to Concerta. The bad news is, because my timing is awesome and I just had the Adderall refilled 2 weeks ago, I can’t fill the Concerta until next Monday. /o\

Goal 1) Publish The Atheist’s Inferno

  • My Goal: 1hr a day min, finish editor’s revision by the end of Feb
  • Where I planned to be: All new scenes completely written
  • Where I am: Still have a few scenes left to do
  • On Target or Behind: Eh.

How’s It Going:
Writing these new scenes is proving to be a lot more difficult than expected. However, I’ve finalized my copy/description, so that knocks me down to 4 steps to complete in the next 4 months, so I’m still on track even if I have to take all of March to finish the editor’s revision.

Although, I did have some fun with the descriptions in one new scene where Madison is stoned out of his mind. XD

Go fast eat wax

There I go talking about accountability and I up and forget to post updates anyway. -shrug-

Goal 1) Publish The Atheist’s Inferno

  • My Goal: 1hr a day min, finish editor’s revision by the end of Feb
  • Where I planned to be: 3hrs spent, maybe just shy of halfway through the editor’s revision?
  • Where I am: so many time, in the middle of writing the new scenes I’m adding
  • On Target or Behind: On Target…?

How’s It Going:
So last week I finally finished organizing my scenes into a more balanced order and sketching out the new scenes I’m adding. Now I’ve got all the actual manuscript pages moved around and I’m working on writing out the new scenes. After that, I’ll have to do at least one more read-through to make sure I don’t have any weird continuity issues from shuffling scenes around. I almost accidentally created one when I started writing one of the new scenes, but I caught it about the same time the ink dried.

I think I’ve also already nailed down my copy, or description. I’m still waiting to see if I get any more comments or suggestions on the post I made about it on Holly’s forum, but it feels solid.

I also may or may not be shooting myself in the foot, but I’m looking into some neat new features, and I’ve got some plans. Why yes, I am being intentionally vague.

Magenta feelings take up shelter in the base of my spine

So between my work schedule and my sleep/wake cycle, lately I’ve been having trouble getting much work done, especially on the weekends (when I’m prone to sleep through entire days). I realize this is gonna sound late and redundant, but I feel like I need some accountability again.

He says, as if time is real and anyone but my dad is reading this…

GOAL 1) Publish The Atheist’s Inferno

  • My clear target is: Publish The Atheist’s Inferno
  • My reachable deadline is: June 30, 2023
  • My working days are: Wed-Fri
  • My method of measuring progress: Steps completed, page or scene count when possible, otherwise time or estimation, I guess
  • My end goal: Slam that publish button
  • My daily goal, and number of available days: 1 hr a day min (page/scene count will vary, depending), 3 days a week, at least one step completed each month
  • My leverage — WHY I need to do this: Well, it’s not gonna publish itself. XD
To break this down a little further, the essentials I need are:
  • Title – Already done.
  • Cover – Nailed it.
  • Copy – This is the description blurb that goes on the Amazon sale page. Should be cake.
  • E-book – This can be further broken down into: completing the editor’s revision (my current task), proofread and/or final edit, and formatting the e-book.
  • Keywords & Categories – No one really sees these but me, but they are super-duper important to Amazon. Keywords are unfortunately a super-duper pain in my ass. Categories are a breeze by comparison, so I’m not even really counting it as separate.

Thankfully, a lot of the hard work I put into this site, and researching publishing and marketing for The Atheist’s Prayer, means less work for me now to publish The Atheist’s Inferno. I know where to find the resources I need, and I’m already on the other side of “What if?” (In fact, I may go against the grain here and not even bother with the email list stuff this time, or just go minimal on it.)

So. 7 items, down to 5 left to complete, with just over 5 months to do it. Makes the math real easy, even if a couple of those items can, and most likely will, be done in under a week. Realistically, the end of June is probably way more lenient than I need to be, but. Nothing wrong with being early.