Frustration Friday: Too Busy To Be Frustrated!

I wanted to go and rant about stuff.  HP?  Maybe Netflix?  maybe DC's relaunch?

But here's the odd thing.  I'm working on Focused Fandom: Cosplay, Costuming, and Career.  And I'm trying to find things to write about, but as soon as something gets me into a good, powerful annoyance I can share – I'm back to examining editing, or publishing, or somthing else.

Seriously, I'm frustrated about not being able to focus my frustration.

This is one of the strange things with a blog – you get into patterns.  This is usual, and it is good, but there are moments your brain doesn't engage.  This is probably even more likely now since most of my focus at this point is my three different series (Scott was a big inspiration).  So I'm used to regular work on things, which isn't as spontaneous as these columns.

And again, the editing – which is very regular.

Most ironically?  I just got a column out of talking about my lack of frustration frustration.

So let's draw some useful lessons – if you're blogging progeeky-wise, then you're going to have those moments of lost inspiration, out of patterns, etc.  It's important to remember, because they will happen.  However the discipline of regular work pays off, even if there are times you're interrupted.

But you might get a post out of it.

– Steven Savage

T-14 Days: Thanks, I think

As everyone knows I go through Lulu for most of my physical books and for ePub and PDF format.  For Kindle, of course I go through Amazon.  It's how I did Fan To Pro, Convention Career Convention, and the Best-Of Books.

So I'm going to release "Focused Fandom: Cosplay, Costuming, and Careers"

So here I am, and now?  Lulu has some new ePub converters and such available for iBookstore and Nook distribution.

I should be happy.  Hell, I've loved what Smashwords did with Meatgrinder.  But . . .

Now I have a question.  Do I do the ePub myself or try their converter?

See this will make my life easy – except to see if it WILL I have to try it out, and then if it's close-but-not-quite, I have to decide how much time to put into it.

Here's somethign to remember if you're self-published; things are changing.  Rapidly.  YOU will need to keep up on them and pace yourself.

Me?  I gotta find another spare 2-3 hours to try this thing out . . .

Steven Savage