The Fun and Excitement of Indie Publishing

The fun and excitement of indie publishing, step by step:
1. Rummage in drawer full of dusty paper manuscripts from the 90s looking for the story you wrote for a long-forgotten anthology that you have for whatever reason decided the world needs to see again.
2. Sneeze.
3. Locate manuscript.
4. Scan manuscript, thus turning it into a PDF.
5. Open account with online OCR service; give them money.
6. Upload PDF.
7. Download Word file the OCR service created.
8. Curse when you find only the first page of PDF was converted to a Word file.
9. Mindlessly repeat Steps 6-8 exactly as you performed them before.
10. Grope around OCR site; discover that you need to click the Multiple Pages button.
11. Perform Steps 6-7 again, only properly this time.
12. Remove headers and all the glitches the OCR process created from Word file.
13. Change all underlining in the text to italics.
14. Reformat text for Kindle.
15. Upload text to Amazon to be a Kindle Single; answer Amazon's questions; write blurb text.
16. Inspect Kindle version of story; discover it doesn't look right.
17. Re-reformat story for Kindle.
18. Re-upload story to Amazon.
19. Look at clock; realize what a ridiculous amount of time it has taken to deal with this one short story; curse.