Why is being a writer so tortuous?!
I think there are millions of other tortured professions, but I suppose because being a writer is my chosen kind of torture, it feels especially acute.
This week, I have finally reopened the work on the “business” side of things: what I call the gross bits.
I suppose I should stop psyching myself out about it. The gross bits were always going to be a large part of being a writer. I knew this. I guess the approach should be the same as the writing itself. It just must be done. Dishes have to be washed, the laundry has to be folded and working on the business side of things has to happen.
There’s quite a bit of backlog for me on this front. I haven’t bothered trying to reach my disappeared publisher again (after several attempts last year) about the status of my Bankruptcy Law Picture Book. It’s sold some and I haven’t seen a penny. My website has to be redone. We have to put up some other websites for both the scholarship I’m building and my writing/consulting business. Torts and Contracts still need to be published. The list is endless.
At the very least I’ve reopened this thread and hopefully will make some progress.
Life is a never-ending to do list and you’ll never get to the end of it, the best you can do is to try to make as much progress on it as possible every day (before you run out of time, morbid as that may be).
I am happy to report that the very rough first initial draft of Cnd Tax Law Picture Book is done though! Now comes the hard part of editing, adding, shuffling things around and getting it ready for publishing.
I remain optimistic that by the end of this year, I will have all 5 of my books out there. Even if only one person buys it. It will be an accomplishment I can be proud of.