Steemit has kick started my writing after grad school
I am liking the Steemit experience; I have written more fiction than I have in a long time. Steemit has also gotten me back into security/politics writing, which I had moved away from after failing to get into a doctorate program.
That is funny, as I joined Steemit while starting to mine/learn about Gridcoin (GRC). The focus on writing accelerated as I wrote more and more.
The Problem
I just put two Kindle books up on Amazon. There is a marketing program (KDP Select) which would help me sell these books, but which I cannot use for these two books due to their availability on the web. This is NOT a Steemit problem, by the way. This is an issue in being able to use the program that does not allow material which is already available on the web or digitally; an understandable policy on Amazon's point.
So for future sales potential, I have to keep track of what I am putting out right now before I try to market it in the future. This does not mean that I can't contribute to Steemit in writing, but it does mean that I have to be aware of what I am putting up.
Current writing resources
So, what assets do I possess now? I need to know this to determine an adequate flow of work, and where to post in the future.
Some of these are linked to automatically repost from the Grad School Fool blog.
Feel free to connect with me on any of the sites I have listed
| Site | Use | Handle/URL |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Author Page | Sales Page for Kindle eBooks | https://www.amazon.com/Steve-Durchin/e/B01MZ6ZFC8 |
| Zotero Database Online | Reference/Citations | https://www.zotero.org/stevedisme/items |
| Started for school networking / General Purpose now | Grad School Fool | |
| Facebook #1 | Personal/Ranting/Don't really use | N/A |
| Facebook #2 | Academic networking/ Don't really use | N/A |
| Steemit | Here I am | Stevescoins |
| Grad School Fool | Blog for posting grad work and security essays | http://gradschoolfool.blogspot.com/ |
| Home to Texas | Blog for marketing Home to Texas ebook | http://hometotexas.blogspot.com/ |
| Medium | Blog for reposting from Grad School Fool Blog | Grad School Fool |
| Professional networking | https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevedurchin | |
| Good Reads | Reading networking | https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16286465.Steve_Durchin |
| Tumblr | Reposting Grad School Fool material | I don't know ;> |
| Youtube | Old account /Don't use / posted WoW game clips | have to look up |
| Rants/ Trolling idiots / news via The_Donald /occasional other questions | Not sharing here | |
| Older Blogspot network | Network built around political blog; other blogs inlcuded gaming, adult webmastering | Hub: http://shortfatcorporal.blogspot.com/ |
Developing a strategy - Planning Stage
As I look at all these websites running amok, I realize that I do not have a solid grasp on even what is reposting on an automatic basis. In addition, the slowness on this laptop is telling me that I need to move all my production activity to the laptop I was using for grad school.
So, while I started this post thinking that I would list my current websites and then come up for a flow chart based on which sites I had up, and how to use that in the way I wrote and how I distributed what I wrote, I now see that this is going to take a full reorganization.
This has been a good start, but it is going to take more time to think of how to go about this efficiently. This might also be a good chance for me to go back to some of my grad work on planning and organization and use this as a refresher exercise.
This looks like a good place to stop for now, as I plan out the organization. I will post again on a plan once I have a general grasp of what I'm going to do, how I'm going to do it, and WHY I do these things. Hopefully, this will be a resource that other writers can use.
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Good one. Got me thinking.
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I've found that paper, a cheap A3 sketchbook, helps me more for thinking about this kind of audit. And then within that either pre-structured or chaotic types of mindmaps. I'm never really convinced with computer-based attempts to get away from the linearity of text.
But I love reading other people's ideas about workflow. Thank you.
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It is all about thoughts in mind which comes outside in form of words
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