I Have a What Now?

I went through my WordPress pages to check to see what needed updated. I was surprised by how out of date they were, I was also surprised by a couple of other things.

The quick description for Highest Lord has been on the Books page since last spring/summer. In my FAQ page, I actually talk about my timeline for books and I’m still technically on time.

Oh, and I have a FAQ page. And a Link page. I… I am a terrible person, I forgot about the pages I created.

Of course, my memory is about as shoddy as Aren’s is, at times. I set things and then forget I do those things. Which is also part of how I can forget about my blog or Twitter for months on end before I pop back on as if I had never left. It’s kind of like I never did.

So I suppose I could claim that my problem is that I forget I’m supposed to do things. I could set alarms on my phone for that sort of thing, but I get cranky when my calendar reminds me that I’m being paid, let alone daily updates like, “Update Twitter,” and “Stop ignoring your work, stupid.”

Yes, I’m mean to myself in my private notes, going so far as to call myself names. It makes me feel better as I write the notes and then when I read them later on it gives me a giggle.

I have an odd sense of humour.

My Smashwords interview (oh, and my author pic) are over two years old. Good work, R.J.

I mean that, at least I filled them out originally.

To my horror, I’ve just noticed that there is a page count on my interview. 181 page clicks and only two of these have been me. It’s a bad interview. Definitely need to fix.

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Thirteen hours later, I’ve got Smashwords author interview updated, posted on Twitter by clicking a button (in my defence, I wanted to know what the button did) thanks to the Smashwords interview. I mainly updated the answers, gave them some editing and then, of course, added on last question.

Then I went over to Goodreads to the do the same thing. I know Goodreads has “preloaded” questions for authors to answer but while trying to find it, I found the widgets instead.

The long and short of it is, I didn’t get the widget up. My brain is fuzzy and coding takes a lot out of me. I have to Google a bunch of stuff and focus. Basically, I’d have better luck editing right now. There appears to be no help for the widget and I can’t find the appropriate group to ask about the widget so, I got frustrated.

And put on a cat video for Izzy, the new cat.

What started it was that she was trying to chase my mouse across the screen. So on a whim—and frustrated with the Goodreads author widget—I went over to youtube and literally googled bird videos for cats. Well, that worked fine for a while.

Until she stood on the keyboard and there was a funny sound.

She shut down my laptop.

This is the beginning of the end, I’m sure.

Anyhow, in the end all I managed to update was Smashwords. I can’t find the Goodreads setting at the moment and the cold has drained me so much that I’m just going to head to bed.

I may, however, have someone to at least take my author photo