Pabon Godfrey Scribblings

 Most of today was spent on the road. We traveled from the South to the west for my brother's baby dedication. I managed to complete the remainder of yesterday's articles before the bus moved.  We waited at the park for almost three hours before the bus finally moved. Before I sleep,  I hope I should be able to do some work on the book I've been trying to publish since like forever. Amazingly, it's more than a month now since I've been trying to work on this book. Distractions are just everywhere. I even doubt I will be able to do much here. Just that I have to press myself. It's going to be a long night. 

 Today was a very busy day. There were a lot of things to do and article jobs to complete. I kept drifting in and out of sleep. Towards the afternoon, I went out to see if I could install some applications on my laptop. Unfortunately it didn't work out quite as well as I had hoped. By few minutes to 5pm,  I kicked the road and began a journey that will take me to where my parents live. I got home few minutes to 8:00 because I have to stop by to barb my hair. I also managed to work on the articles at night although I couldn't finish them. I'm still reading Harry Potter book 5 (that is the order of Phoenix) .  Even though I have read the book in the past, it doesn't stop  me from enjoying the read. I think that will be all for now. See you later. 

 I'm sorry I couldn't maintain this streak the way I wanted it to be.  So, it just happened that a program came along the way and I had to be away from many things online.  I'm back. That's what matters now. From here,  I hope I can begin a new streak which could go on for a long time. Dean Wesley Smith came with a new challenge. He said users should write 52 books in one year. That's approximately 1 books every week. It's  absolutely doable. What's even more is that if you miss out one week, you could use another week to make up for that.  He  didn't even say to write a book. Rather, he said to write a short story. About 3000 words minimum. I don't see out this cannot be done. I don't know exactly when I'm going to start my own but I'm targeting being able to produce one book of a minimum of ten thousand words every week. With this I can have 52 works published by this time next year. And that's another thing. He didn't just say ...

 Article works keep coming in and to think I'm getting peanuts from them. It's time to take a stand. Don't you think so? I should get back to writing for myself.  A new title to write about just came and I haven't even written the last two. Pathetic! That's my thoughts. I should get over this immediately.  I will write this last badge and then, focus solely on getting some book writing done.  I'm at book 5 of Harry Potter. Thought you'd never ask. It brings back so many memories. Got to go now! 

 I haven't done much this period. However I feel excited to go on within the next few days and achieved so much results. I completed the Amazon course last night and from the last video, I got the impetus to begin to implement all the things that I've learnt so far.  I think one of the major things that have been keeping me is this unwillingness to do the things that I'm supposed to do. I mean I know all there is to know about self-publishing. All the things that guy was teaching are not new to me. It's the daily implementations that has been lacking . So what I want to do this time is to have a system to check and balance myself.  I want to be able to hold myself accountable for my actions and inactions. I'm going to be doing a lot of writing for next week. I know it is next week that camp meeting is coming up but even in the midst of that I believe I can still find some minutes like during the break and after the program is closed for the day. I should be able to ...

 Self doubt is  many people's issue . They want validation but don't know that what they are doing is already authentic.  And so,  that was how I went to pay N50,000 for a course which contains stuff I already knew.  it has given me the mind now to go 13 get my own. I'm not done with the course yet but I i feel like it wasn't up to what I paid.  I didn't do much today because my mind was all about taking a course. I'm currently waiting till it's 12 a.m. (midnight). I want to use the night sub to watch the videos and see if I can give anything extra. I'm afraid that if I sleep now I might wake up too late because I might need about three hours window to go through every bit of the course. So that's the reason I'm awake at this time. I missed out On updating yesterday. It didn't even skip across my mind. I hope I can achieve a better level of consistency in the future.  That will be all for now.

 I wrote some articles and that that about it. I kept getting distracted. It  often happens when i'm in my parents house. There was work to be done and I couldn't sit for up to an hour without drifting into sleep. This is one thing that characterizes my days most times when I'm at my parents. I don't know what it is but it's got to stop. I still have almost two weeks left before Camp meeting. I'll have to try my best to start working consistently. Something came to my mind today. It was the k e t system that I had seen somewhere sometime ago. It's all my diarrhoea so. Is about the three things that makes for productivity. Number one is Knowledge of a subject you're writing about. the reason why writing becomes dull and boring the command the reason why you secretly stuff in the midst of your writing this because you don't have enough knowledge about the subject. It means you're not done enough research so stop doing enough reception about the sub...

 I got distracted yesterday and couldn't do much as I would have loved to. However I did manage to get some reading done. I was able to download a number of videos although not many of them were notes for business purpose. Yesterday being Saturday I went through allegiance post on nairaland and I can say I learnt a lot. It seems like everytime publishing is slowing down on me I'm looking into my eyes. It was the same yesterday over a road for a free GDP tutorial on . The training starts tomorrow by 9:00.

 I can't say the day was bad. Still, I can't say it was good either. It was just there. I wasted time trying to get something. No matter where I checked, I didn't get it. It was really discouraging.  . I was able to do some article works. Then, I began to prepare for my travel. That technology book is yet to be finished. There's no time and quarter four is already going away. I need to up my speed 

 Coming back to edit. 

 It's the Dilemma I'm currently battling with. So ,earlier last week, younger bro revealed that he has gotten the strategy for binary that gives a very huge margin of profit. However, it was at the same time that I was already thinking about focusing more attention and giving energy to writing the books I should have written. It's either focus on the trading or focus on the writing. I'm not sure I can do both of them effectively without one suffering. 

 Still did though..  Today was filled with much writing and much regrets, if I must say. I saw some peeps' Amazon report for October and I was shocked and angry with myself.  One made $928 Another made $800+ Another $600+ I barely made $11.  I was too distracted. I hope November will be better.  I wrote close to 2000 words today. It should improve but I was distracted. I had to go out to do some ministry work.  Now, I'm torn between doing fiction and nonfiction.  After now, I will go and check DWS' blog for updates. 

 The day started in a good way. As I promised myself, I was able to get some actual writing done. Everything should total close to four thousand words. However, I lost track of everything as the day got older.  Today when it seems like I could finally fall back into schedule, a job proposition comes in. It's in the wolf shiftter romance category. I don't even write romance, not to talk about writing in one of its subgenre. However, I'm attracted to the pay. It's going to be massive if I can get the job.  I've started drafting an outline. Thing is even if I don't get the job, I could make use of the outline. I think I like what I've done.  I listened to another episode of the Six figure authors podcast. I learned a lot that I hope to apply in future.  One of such is that according to Andrea, don't go looking for the bank when you're just starting. She said she work her way steadily, focusing on getting more books out at the initial stage. She also sai...

 So, I'm here finally. This blog will help me to stay focused and committed. I want to be accountable to myself and this is my way of doing so.  With this blog, I should be able to pen down my thoughts on writing, new trends, author's tips and news, and other random ramblings.  It begins with November. It's something I hope I can keep doing for a really really long time