Truth be told, I'm not sure what the deal is. The motivation has been lacking. I'm sure part of it has to do with my wife wanting me to find work, the slow down here, and a feeling like I'm taking a step back—the momentum I was building through the latter part of April into May has been waning. It's all expected, but it's been taking a toll, too.
On top of that, I think I'm getting a little bored, and maybe somewhat impatient, neither of which are good. So, as I said, I need to work through this, and quickly.
I've had similar bouts before, but the leagues helped me get through that, and progress was made. Now, I need something else, I guess. I'm not even sure about that—I don't need to take on more, I just need to do things differently somehow.
oh ok, I thought perhaps it was something like problem solving at home or working
on summer projects around the house or something.
But if it's boredom here and you've been through it before then you'll just work through
it this time also... but how do you change it up so it isn't boring for you?
I mean how different can you do things? especially after you've honed your methods
to perfection! lol. well at least very efficiently I assume.
Well, that's just it. I'm not that efficient yet. The problem is, there's not really a set time for things to happen. Ya'll come on at different periods of the day. I haven't been able to really set one specific deadline for anything, so answering comments can be immediate or up to two days later.
The boring part is spending way too much time writing about different aspects of Steemit or other topics that people may have an interest in that I would rather spend writing what I want to write, but that doesn't have as much of an audience yet.
I need to continue to expand my circle here, I think, and yet continue to engage with those, like you, who actually reply, and figure out how to do that in an eight hour day instead of 14, since a part or full-time job is supposed to be in my immediate future. :)
lol! I like that last sentence because that's my situation.
When you devise a good system then let me know because I
determined that this can't be an 8 hour a day job, I just don't see
how. and all those hours burn people out after awhile.
What kind of job do you want to do if not bus driver and accountant(gag and gag!)?
managing some type of business?
I'd really rather not do that. I might be able to fill some kind of consultancy role (never done it, though), but I don't want to be a manger or a business owner anymore that requires having employees.
I'm doing what I believe I should be doing by being here. Ultimately, I want to get my fiction into production in some media—novels, comic books, maybe even movies or video shorts. I don't want to be writing about what Steemit should be doing or not doing, or trying to write about what I think STEEM is ultimately going to do.
I like having discussions about a wide variety of topics, and would rather that, if nothing else.
For all of that to happen, though, visibility needs to improve and I'm not sure when or if or how that's going to happen. Maybe with Communities. At least that's the hope.
howdy @glenalbrethsen...hey when you say your "fiction" are you talking about books that you have already written and just want to get out there? one book, lots of books?
Logically, the coming improvements which you wrote about will improve visibility.
I've got lots of stories. The two Kindle ebooks that are published will eventually be a trilogy that then becomes part of a seven or eight book series. It would be great to get sales of those books moving, but I wasn't really thinking about them as much as some comic book ideas I have. There are three of those, plus potentially a fourth that would deal with the aforementioned trilogy, since they could be repurposed into a comic book format.
I'm not sure all of those are meant for Steemit, but I'd really like to do something with all of them at some point. Better than have them knocking around the inside of my head scrambling to get out. :)
lol! scrambling to get out! I've never had that feeling but it doesn't sound very comfortable. The comic books, how do you get those published? I assume you have to go through Marvel or one of the big publishers and get approved by them or something?