Okay so I’ve been bummed that I can’t do nanowrimo cause I just don’t have the time to do it, but… I still need a goal/challenge for this month that is in some way comparable.

So… I thought while everybody else is doing nanowrimo, I can do NaSiWrimo, okay, yeah, so it doesn’t roll off the tongue quite the same way (It doesn’t even roll right, mentally.) But I’m not a genius like Chris Baty. I figured the thing I really need a kick in the pants to get done, that I’m procrastinating on, is working on my indie site.

And I’m procrastinating for two reasons I think. One is that I have a “legitimate” reason to put it off. I’m getting KEPT ready to go out the door. And that’s great, but it’s not like I spend an entire day every day doing that. And after that I’ll have the excuse of rewrites of SMS. And I really want to get my indie site going.

I’ve got the banner designed and the home page up, and the RSS up. (It’s so cool, I’ve got my site set up for RSS, so when I update a new page, people who are subscribed get notified. It’s like a blog/website hybrid. But it’s organized like a 3-tier webpage, or will be.)

The second reason is, I have all this information in my head and I know what I want to say, but it’s so “big.” Blogs are easy. You just write whatever every day, and hope you aren’t too boring. There is no organization, no rhyme or reason.

But you get to a classic 3-tier website, and it gets insane. I think part of my problem is, I don’t want to really start publishing pages, until I have enough of them actually written so I know if it works right and flows in the right ways. So maybe I should spend this month writing rough draft for as much as I can, then at the end of November, I can publish the pages I have.

So my goal is 30 pages by the end of the month. I may end up with something closer to 15, but if I set my goal at 15, I’ll have 7.

But with 30 pages I have a strong foundation.

The site basically takes someone through all the reasons they might go indie, and reasons they might not want to, so people can be informed enough to make the right decision for themselves. Purposes of going indie, ways one can go indie. Where you can get more information, the best resources, etc. Going indie for every budget, and on and on. I want it to be as comprehensive as possible, but that takes a long time to build, and the whole thing is daunting.

But, I think there are many different ways of doing this and reasons for doing it, for those interested, and it doesn’t really help when there is a “one true way” of going indie being preached. Most “true self publishers” still completely scoff at POD technology. And to me, one of the few reasons that’s going on is because they don’t want more stigma. Well, stigma sucks, but it isn’t a good enough reason for me to do a 2,000 – 5,000 copy print run.

And even doing short run printing, once you figure in warehousing, and shipping into distribution, the “economies of scale” don’t play right until you print at least 750 copies at one time, for many books. Plus with warehousing, you always run a risk of book damage. And going into distribution is much harder going offset as a small press. It’s much easier with POD, because you have Lightning Source owned by Ingram, so automatically you can get into the Ingram catalog, and on a short discount, not this insane 60 – 70% stuff they make micro-presses do otherwise.

As you can see, I have to work on this site, haha, I’ve got to get these thoughts out in a logical way.

In other news,

I dreamed that after all the votes came in, McCain won, instead of Obama, and they took the presidency away from Obama. And the racial tension was INSANE. And I was totally freaked out that McCain/Palin were going to be in the white house. Gee, if I had known THESE were my feelings before, I could have voted. hahaha. And also, in my dream I kept thinking Spy was going to freak OUT! OMG. Awful dream.

Apparently McCain really was the greater evil for me. If the universe could give me these dreams, BEFORE electon day, that would just be spiffy.