Week One of Self-Employment

I was going to title this “Week One of Unemployment,” but that would be unfair to all the work I did the past seven and a half days.

Besides writing several thousand words in my next novel, and slightly more than a poem a day, I let the problem I was having with my next poetry collection roll around in my head, playing in the dirt and doing whatever it wanted, until a very fun and elegant solution showed itself. I researched publishers that might be interested in my book series and followed some agents and editors on social media. I came up with the title of the second book in this series, and I love it. And a few days later, I figured out what’ll be happening at the chaotic climax of this novel. Now all I need is a series title. Judging by my jump-started imagination this past week, I’m foolishly confident that it’ll come to me by next blog post.

Then I set up a ko-fi page for myself, here:

https://ko-fi.com/poemsandprophecy

You can also find a link to it in the bottom left of this page RIGHT NOW. If the widget is still working.

I was going to set it up with membership tiers like on Patreon, but, uh, I’m lazy. And this way, people can decide if they want to leave a one-time tip or set up a monthly subscription amount of their own choosing. I’ve urged my spouse to sign up for a monthly donation so I can call it an allowance. It would be funny if it weren’t sad.

I’m probably going to open up tarot commissions at the end of the month, to give myself a few more weeks of focus on my writing projects while I get acclimated to what my days look like now. Those commissions will be available through my ko-fi page as well.

So, this week was an overall win! Oh, and my cat’s oncologist said we don’t need to bring her in for another six months. Very good news.