My Goal to Self Publish My First Novel: Step 1

I have always want to write a book and see it on the shelf of my local library ever since I was in middle school. As someone with dyslexia who was bullied in school for struggling to read even by teachers this has always seemed to be the ultimate "I told you so". There is so much more to it though. I love creating stories and sharing them with my friends.

Here is the broad steps out what I plan to do to self publish my first book in case you are looking to do the same as well.

Finish writing the book.
Proof read and edit
Design cover
Register pen name
Set up website
Promote the book
Publish to Kindle

I plan to start out with just Kindle right now since it seems to be the easiest and as I get more experience I may branch out more into other options.

I still have to finish step one though which I expect to take the month amount of time. If I stay on track, I will finish my book around Christmas.

Comments

Worried for Nothing?

Recently I was struggling worried, Am I Cut Out to be an Indie Author? Last week I started writing a new story since I was really struggling with the last concept that I had. In my first week of writing I wrote 20,000 words! That is insane, I didn't even know I was capable of putting up those types of numbers. I doubt this pace is maintainable but maybe I can get my number of books released per year up to four after all and cut the time to get to 20 books down from 10 year to 5 years. I am going to keep pushing through and try not to stress too much. I still think waiting until I have a few books ready to release before putting anything out is a good idea. That way I get into the habit and mindset of written without an expectation of return on investment.

Dreams on Hold

They say there is a time and place for everything. Sadly no just isn't the right time to chase this dream. Hopefully the economy will get better and I will be able to have the free time again to work on my writing. Right now I need to pick up a second job on top of everything I am already doing to help cover expenses. Ideally this only last for about six months, but I don't know for sure. The dream is there. It isn't dead it is just on hold once again.

Ups and Downs to word count

The first seven days of writing my new story I put down 23,000 words. Then a lot of life happened and I had four straight days of 0 words. Thankfully I had been crushing it that first week and am still where I need to be a with the stretched goal pass of 1,500 words a day. Before I was excited by just how much I was able to get done and was even think that I may be able to finish faster than the 54 day stretch goal. That was always a miracle goal though. My reasonable deadline for myself is 90 days. This way I can write three books a year and use the remaining days on editing and marketing. I am learning to be patient with myself and that my production isn't always going to be linear.

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