Knight_Writer
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Hey everyone,
I’m Knight_Writer and I’m in self-publishing (pretty obvious I guess).
Personal Side (or skip to Publishing Side):
A little about myself: this is my first post though I’m not totally new to the forum since I’ve been lurching for quite a while. I started self publishing a few months back. I mainly publish on Amazon. My original plan was to expand onto different platforms but have not done so yet. Back in the day, my original goals were to make $X,XXX-$XX,XXX amount of money per month (money goal constantly change). In short, I was too hung up on the event and essentially had no concrete goal at all. In the beginning, I didn’t make much but once I started making what I considered decent sales, it just got to my head, and I keep thinking about the Non-Existent X money at the end of the month.
This is the shameful part for me. I don’t have respect here since I’m consider new and what you might hear is pretty bad which will only make me look worse so here goes. Many great people on this forum progress and moved forward not each month but each day. Always improving, Always trying to be better than yesterday. Looking back on myself, I moved backwards. I wanted to say I did my best but I’m only fooling myself, being delusional. It’s part of why I made this progress thread. I need to get pass this so that I can move forward and make better strides in both myself as a person & make my half-a$$ ‘business’ into an actual one.
I have not given my all from the start. I can’t say I wake up every painstaking morning to get started, but I did put in effort (just not at the same level as others nor where I picture/want myself to be at). A few months into it, I began to write less instead of more. This started when I made a couple grand per month. I was waking up not in the morning but way past the afternoon (usually 12-2pm). Wow, I knew I was terrible, but I didn’t do anything to change. Shame on me. I was super lazy plus I probably thought I was hotstuff. Boy was I way over my head. Who was I kidding?
Today I made sure to wake up at 8:30am, sleeping about 4.5 hours. Totally irrelevant but I ate a bagel this morning. While sipping a latte, I realized how much daylight I had left from this small act. I wanted to turn a new leaf. Felt the best I ever had in a long time even though I didn’t sleep much. Surprised. I think it’s because I took the first step in changing myself, my lifestyle, and ultimately my future. With that said, I don’t want the ‘change’ (used loosely since it’s only the first day) to stop just there nor did I want it to be just a whimsical one day. I want to look back at this in the future and hopefully see the positive changes I made.
Publishing Side:
Okay enough about boring faults that everyone have but don’t need to hear more of. Onto the publishing side:
I start off by recounting & comparing last month to this current month which I don’t know if it’s appropriate or not. Basically a huge slump like a wake-up call.
Jan 2015 Stats:
Sales: 1143 (Average 36 Daily)
Borrows: 4373 (Average 141 Daily)
Expense: ~$900
Current (Feb 20) 2015 Month Stats:
Sales: 520 (Average 26 Daily)
Borrows: 2088 (Average 104 Daily)
Current Month Expenses: $236.64
Here’s My General Starting Plan (Basically some changes to myself):
-Try not to obsess over my numbers too much
I kept record of my sales/borrows per month on a daily basis not to gauge my progress, but I was bordered on obsession as to how many sales and how much I earn that day. Idea started out good, then I did it for the wrong reason. Used to be like checking every other hour or so. This has to stop. I want to limit myself to progress myself to possibly two checks a day. With the constant checking, I know when the bulk purchases occur and when the numbers usually don’t change. Pace myself and maybe move onto weekly checks. Then go from there.
-Becoming more active in writing books & my business
I began by writing my own books & outsourcing them. I have stop writing my own for a while and that’s where I see one of my problems at. I know for a fact that my work enthusiasm slacked both from doing less work contributed with making sales. I experienced big dips which I’m not proud of. It’s my own fault but that means I can change it. I plan to get back into writing to re-ignite the passion I use to have while maintaining my outsource writers.
-Create & stick with a routine workday
I’m not entirely sure if this is considered a plan or even the right approach. Basically I’m telling myself to get busy. My original goal was to get 5,080 downloads (sale & borrow) by the end of the month (Feb). This won’t happen with the way I had been doing things anyways. My new goal is to maintain an acceptable workday routine for a week (at the very least 8 hours/day investment). I think I need to start here before making any $/# target goals. I think about 'work work work' But I think I should pace myself so that I don't run out of steam on a 'marathon run'. My thinking is that I should see how long I can stay focus for in a sitting. This way I can incorporate breaks and hopefully increase my productivity/attention instead of trying to push myself over the edge. The longest I recall writing for is 4 hours straight. Well that's about it for now.
Feel free to voice your criticism/thoughts/suggestions if any.
I’m Knight_Writer and I’m in self-publishing (pretty obvious I guess).
Personal Side (or skip to Publishing Side):
A little about myself: this is my first post though I’m not totally new to the forum since I’ve been lurching for quite a while. I started self publishing a few months back. I mainly publish on Amazon. My original plan was to expand onto different platforms but have not done so yet. Back in the day, my original goals were to make $X,XXX-$XX,XXX amount of money per month (money goal constantly change). In short, I was too hung up on the event and essentially had no concrete goal at all. In the beginning, I didn’t make much but once I started making what I considered decent sales, it just got to my head, and I keep thinking about the Non-Existent X money at the end of the month.
This is the shameful part for me. I don’t have respect here since I’m consider new and what you might hear is pretty bad which will only make me look worse so here goes. Many great people on this forum progress and moved forward not each month but each day. Always improving, Always trying to be better than yesterday. Looking back on myself, I moved backwards. I wanted to say I did my best but I’m only fooling myself, being delusional. It’s part of why I made this progress thread. I need to get pass this so that I can move forward and make better strides in both myself as a person & make my half-a$$ ‘business’ into an actual one.
I have not given my all from the start. I can’t say I wake up every painstaking morning to get started, but I did put in effort (just not at the same level as others nor where I picture/want myself to be at). A few months into it, I began to write less instead of more. This started when I made a couple grand per month. I was waking up not in the morning but way past the afternoon (usually 12-2pm). Wow, I knew I was terrible, but I didn’t do anything to change. Shame on me. I was super lazy plus I probably thought I was hotstuff. Boy was I way over my head. Who was I kidding?
Today I made sure to wake up at 8:30am, sleeping about 4.5 hours. Totally irrelevant but I ate a bagel this morning. While sipping a latte, I realized how much daylight I had left from this small act. I wanted to turn a new leaf. Felt the best I ever had in a long time even though I didn’t sleep much. Surprised. I think it’s because I took the first step in changing myself, my lifestyle, and ultimately my future. With that said, I don’t want the ‘change’ (used loosely since it’s only the first day) to stop just there nor did I want it to be just a whimsical one day. I want to look back at this in the future and hopefully see the positive changes I made.
Publishing Side:
Okay enough about boring faults that everyone have but don’t need to hear more of. Onto the publishing side:
I start off by recounting & comparing last month to this current month which I don’t know if it’s appropriate or not. Basically a huge slump like a wake-up call.
Jan 2015 Stats:
Sales: 1143 (Average 36 Daily)
Borrows: 4373 (Average 141 Daily)
Expense: ~$900
Current (Feb 20) 2015 Month Stats:
Sales: 520 (Average 26 Daily)
Borrows: 2088 (Average 104 Daily)
Current Month Expenses: $236.64
Here’s My General Starting Plan (Basically some changes to myself):
-Try not to obsess over my numbers too much
I kept record of my sales/borrows per month on a daily basis not to gauge my progress, but I was bordered on obsession as to how many sales and how much I earn that day. Idea started out good, then I did it for the wrong reason. Used to be like checking every other hour or so. This has to stop. I want to limit myself to progress myself to possibly two checks a day. With the constant checking, I know when the bulk purchases occur and when the numbers usually don’t change. Pace myself and maybe move onto weekly checks. Then go from there.
-Becoming more active in writing books & my business
I began by writing my own books & outsourcing them. I have stop writing my own for a while and that’s where I see one of my problems at. I know for a fact that my work enthusiasm slacked both from doing less work contributed with making sales. I experienced big dips which I’m not proud of. It’s my own fault but that means I can change it. I plan to get back into writing to re-ignite the passion I use to have while maintaining my outsource writers.
-Create & stick with a routine workday
I’m not entirely sure if this is considered a plan or even the right approach. Basically I’m telling myself to get busy. My original goal was to get 5,080 downloads (sale & borrow) by the end of the month (Feb). This won’t happen with the way I had been doing things anyways. My new goal is to maintain an acceptable workday routine for a week (at the very least 8 hours/day investment). I think I need to start here before making any $/# target goals. I think about 'work work work' But I think I should pace myself so that I don't run out of steam on a 'marathon run'. My thinking is that I should see how long I can stay focus for in a sitting. This way I can incorporate breaks and hopefully increase my productivity/attention instead of trying to push myself over the edge. The longest I recall writing for is 4 hours straight. Well that's about it for now.
Feel free to voice your criticism/thoughts/suggestions if any.
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