First week of November 2025
This week has been difficult for me. I've got lots of stress. The money situation isn't hot. It's also been a relief. The better candidates won in my local election. For the most part, the elections that we saw this year have had a vibe to the winners. We're still in the midst of a shutdown, impacting not only government workers but people who rely on government services. A combination of extreme short-term thinking and grift in the tech sector mean that jobs are hard to come by and extremely unstable.
I don't really want to focus that much on politics here but politics have real world impacts and I'm a part of that real world impact.
Admin day
My goal for this week was to get my accounts set up on Amazon, Kobo, and Author's Republic. Amazon ended up being very stressful but I did get that and Kobo set up. Author's Republic will have to wait a little bit.
Audiobook
I've gotten kind of mixed feedback from Author's Republic about the internal format of an audiobook. Is it 5 or 10 seconds seconds of silence at the beginning and ending? Does silence mean absolute silence of the sort that fails ACX Check? Questions I don't have to solve today but questions I do need to solve sooner rather than later.
Whatever they're after will likely not require the same sort of production effort that was required over the last weeks of October.
Writing progress
The only real writing I got done this week was on The Novel. My wordcount for the week is about 4000 words. That's significantly light of where I'd like to be.
