Weekend Update Has a Change of Plans
Jun. 26th, 2016 09:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jon_chaissonI'm thinking of taking another internet hiatus for a little while.
This time it's not because of the news or irritations with social media or needing to disconnect from the world for a while to get my head straight again. I'm doing just fine on that end of things.
No, this time it's because I need to make some concrete plans. Important plans. Plans that will change my writing career, hopefully for the better.
I've got two books out in the wild that are doing jack. They're out in a void, doing absolutely squat. Why? Well, I have only myself to blame. I just put them out there, gave them a bit of a nudge, but that's it. I haven't bothered to sell them up since. Why? Hell if I know. Could be that the Day Job has kept me busy (or that I've been using it as an excuse not to spend my free time on selling the books). Could be that I'm feeling a bit of fatigue because this third book has been such a f**king bear to edit and I just want to move onto something new already. Could be a case of the Don't Wanna's, or a case of feeling like I'm a hack.
I've also got two very big publishing-related plans that I'd like to initiate, and keeping them in my head and saying 'this would be a neat idea' isn't going to make them a reality.
In short, I need a hiatus, because I need to do one hell of a big refocus on being a writer.
I can't let these plans stay on the sidelines any longer.
Will that mean I won't be posting here or elsewhere? Not exactly. I'll still be posting and tweeting now and again. It just won't be high up on my priorities, at least for now. I'll be finishing up the Walk in Silence posts over at WIS because I'm almost done. Welcome to Bridgetown will go on hiatus because it needs a retooling. I'll still be here at LJ on the weekends.
But it's time to make some changes.
This time it's not because of the news or irritations with social media or needing to disconnect from the world for a while to get my head straight again. I'm doing just fine on that end of things.
No, this time it's because I need to make some concrete plans. Important plans. Plans that will change my writing career, hopefully for the better.
I've got two books out in the wild that are doing jack. They're out in a void, doing absolutely squat. Why? Well, I have only myself to blame. I just put them out there, gave them a bit of a nudge, but that's it. I haven't bothered to sell them up since. Why? Hell if I know. Could be that the Day Job has kept me busy (or that I've been using it as an excuse not to spend my free time on selling the books). Could be that I'm feeling a bit of fatigue because this third book has been such a f**king bear to edit and I just want to move onto something new already. Could be a case of the Don't Wanna's, or a case of feeling like I'm a hack.
I've also got two very big publishing-related plans that I'd like to initiate, and keeping them in my head and saying 'this would be a neat idea' isn't going to make them a reality.
In short, I need a hiatus, because I need to do one hell of a big refocus on being a writer.
I can't let these plans stay on the sidelines any longer.
Will that mean I won't be posting here or elsewhere? Not exactly. I'll still be posting and tweeting now and again. It just won't be high up on my priorities, at least for now. I'll be finishing up the Walk in Silence posts over at WIS because I'm almost done. Welcome to Bridgetown will go on hiatus because it needs a retooling. I'll still be here at LJ on the weekends.
But it's time to make some changes.
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Date: 2016-06-27 07:20 am (UTC)my lj username @gmail.com
Good luck!