Money is really tight right now. I don’t know how I am going to afford to pay for the audiobook. There’s a chance I can use my November mid-month reimbursement from work to put toward it, but that might not get me all the way there. Having to pay for the repairs on my car really put a dent in my credit card. I was saving about $1000 of pretend money for that. I’m likely in the negative in my account right now, and there are eight more days in the month. I need to return the five-quart jug of engine oil that I bought from Auto Zone the other day. It’s only $45, but it should be enough to get me back in the black and to buy milk next week. I’m wondering if there is anything I can sell. Or if there’s any way to earn money without driving.
I started listening to Joanna Penn’s audiobook about Book Marketing. It’s a good refresher, and it keeps me engaged in my work. I was starting to fall off there. I have a lot of tasks yet, including my newsletter, and I feel I’ve been spending too much time looking at AMS numbers. The other thing I absolutely need to do is keep writing. When I think about getting hired on Textbroker or Fiverr to write a 1000 word article for $25, I just think about how the time spent on those dumb articles might be more worthwhile spent working on my next book. So I will be writing more every day. I am going to sign up for NaNoWriMo this week. I’ve already started outlining Lucky Day. No matter what I listen to or read in terms of book marketing, the recommendation is that the best way to market your books is to write more books. The absolute best thing I can do is bang out the first draft of Lucky Day.
I am supposed to have dinner tonight with a producer. I have a client meeting scheduled in Laguna Beach. I may not be back this way until 7:00-7:30. Ug. I hope that meeting in Laguna gets rescheduled. I really do. Or the meeting with the producer gets rescheduled. I assume that’s just as likely.
Looks like I’ll be alone on Thanksgiving. The girls are heading out of town. I pushed back a little, but they really want to go. I don’t want to stand in their way of having a happy Thanksgiving week with their family. They’ll have a better time there than they will here. I should use that time to write. It’ll be the end of the month, so I’ll need to press forward on that target number for wordcount.
That reminds me… Once I start into NaNoWriMo, I’m going to stop Morning Pages so I can put all my energy into Lucky Day. If I can do both, great. But the pages written in the morning will be dedicated to Lucky Day, to start.
