Amanda LeMay's Blog - Posts Tagged "selfpublishinghell-icandothis"

Yesterday was a hurry-up-and-wait day. Good thing I'd already designated it as a 'no writing' day, because yeah, no writing was done.

Oh, wait, I did write a small blog post while all the waiting was going on, and I did send a few texts to a friend venting my frustration on the ERROR message that kept popping up. But that's all...I think.

So, since it was a 'no writing' day, I had the time to work the problem. How to format my Word DOC using a KDP template. So, I cheered myself on...

I can do this!

I have the focus, the patience, and the time. I mean, I'm a writer, a mom and a wife. I've got bucket-loads of patience.

Hahaha...

Hahahahahahahaha...

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha......

Riiight

*cries*

Hours later... and I do mean freaking HOURS LATER...

Ultimate failure.

Well, maybe not 'ultimate'. My title page, copy write page, dedication and acknowledgement pages are AWESOME. *giggles and wipes tears*

Anyway, I won't leave it there. Nope, I'm back at this formatting thing and I WILL DO IT. And take notes.

Wish me luck.

I'm going in.

Frustration.

Yep.

I'm getting an unusually high does of the stuff lately.

Taking a break from 'formatting hell', I wanted to set up my first ebook giveaway. Normally, that would be a big YAY all around since people love FREE books, and yeah, I'm (planning on) giving away a few.

Anyway, I was moving right along, until I hit a snag and had to find the ASIN.

(ASIN? What the bloody heck is an ASIN?)

Well, come to find out, it's one of those numbers your book is assigned through Amazon. FOUND IT!

Goodreads asks me to fill out my book info, something I know I've done before because Kiss of the Winter Moon is already on Goodreads, but hey, if that's what I gotta do.

I now have two copies of my book on Goodreads. TWO.

Well...that wasn't supposed to happen.

*shakes head and clicks 'help'*

I turned SHADOW OF THE SUMMER MOON, the 2nd book in the Sakana Series, over to my editor for one last look through. I have no idea how many times I've read and reread and read again the first three manuscripts in my Sakana Series. Maybe I should've started keeping track way back in 2011 when I started writing these.

Then again, maybe it's better that I didn't.

The point is that no matter how many times I've gone over them, I still find little mistakes, misspellings, and just plain too many words - or not enough, (which is rare). Because I gotta catch 'em all. And, well, that's never gonna happen. One thing I've noticed is as soon as I'm finished going over a manuscript, I feel compelled to start all over again, ya know, just in case I missed something - again.

Yeah, I'm also one of those who will unravel an afghan because I found a dropped stitch 20 rows back. Luckily, for me, making a correction to a manuscript is much simpler. Still, getting to that point where I can save and close my manuscript and not obsess over it is a challenge.

Knowing I have more books to write is a great motivator. I've got a whole line up going on. I have something else to obsess over...

I mean...focus on.