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It happens a lot around here. lol

No worries at all. It's been a busy year for most of us. 😉

That's one of the biggest benefits for me, I think - organizing my thoughts. Since I plan on turning the Witcham series into something much bigger, it's nice to have all of those ideas and plans on a platform that'll help me remember what I was trying to do. lol Getting too old to remember a lot of the details. 😂

@@WriterSanctuary definitely. my memory isn't great either, I can't very well reach back and pull ideas that I haven't thought about for a while from the hazy ether of my mind. but if I can look through a list of topics and find some mention of the idea, that can be enough to bring it back to me. there are several ways to categorize, group, or divide articles and such so that I can find whatever I need easily. it is also nice that you can link various articles, timelines, and others within an article, timeline, or other places. so you can easily make a space for all your various ideas and then later link them together in a few ways.

@@nonya-bizness Absolutely.

You're welcome. I'm looking forward to really diving into it soon.

@@philip-at-tube I'm positive, but often a cynic. 😁

I use the Dark mode extension available for Chrome. Atticus has said that dark mode will be available in the future, though.

@@WriterSanctuary Thank you! :)

@@ThePhoenixTail You are very welcome.

Actually, that is a lot of what I want to cover in 2025. It's going to be a big year, I think. :)

@@WriterSanctuary I look forward to watching any how-to videos you may make about marketing issues.

Yeah, there are times I get sucked into an educational rabbit hole for hours. lol

You are very welcome. Glad I could help.

@@neosoulwriter Yeah, gonna play around with 4th Wall this week. 😁

@@WriterSanctuary 4th wall?

@@neosoulwriter It's a print-on-demand/membership service, kind of like if T-Spring and Buy Me a Coffee had a love child.

@@neosoulwriter 😁

The camera from the monitor counts as real. You want a different camera ❤

@@neosoulwriter Well, something better than the web cam, anyway. lol

@WriterSanctuary you're going to be spoiled when you get the new camera. More pics and videos

@@neosoulwriter Yeah...plan on doing a lot with it as soon as I get one.

You are very welcome.

@@ladonwilliams1333 Glad I could help. 😁 Spreadsheets FTW! 😂

Thank you. :)

Well, I have this spreadsheet that I use for everything I do throughout the day: th-cam.com/video/rLCLmQAoFXY/w-d-xo.html Is that the one? I am also setting up the content for next year in a content strategy spreadsheet.

@@designbookInc You are welcome.

One of the first places I go to when walking into a Barnes and Noble, actually. lol Loves me some notebooks.

Thank you. And I'm glad I could help.

You are very welcome. And thank you. 😁

@@mistamixSD You're very welcome. And thank you, she's in quite a few videos 😂

@@philip-at-tube You're welcome. 🙂

@@philip-at-tube I think I started doing it in 2013, when I became a full-time writer. Now, it's almost second nature. 😁 Then again, I am a huge dork when it comes to spreadsheets and tracking goals. 😂

@@WriterSanctuary I'm a lot more vague with myself - do more creative stuff because it is probably good for me. (Also, at least try to be a bit less self-centred, lol).

@@philip-at-tube That's always a good thing. lol

@@Odontecete I feel ya. I spent three days calculating the distance a horse could travel in a specific amount of time and distance. A map would have drastically made a difference. 😂 That's ok, though. We learned a lot, which will only make the next book far better. 😁

@@WriterSanctuary 15-20 miles/day given adequate food and water with a moderate load and flat ground. :D Yep, already did that math. LOL. Helped that I know horses so it wasn't too much of a struggle.

@@readMEinkbooks I have a series Playlist for using Reedsy, one of which was adding pages and such. m.th-cam.com/play/PLKiglROgDB3MKxX_ue8dYz2eo9CufoMHD.html I plan on making more in the near future. I hope this helps.

@@truthboundpublishing I don't think I do. I haven't done much with Goodreads lately as I've been focused on a few other sites. If I remember right, the profile set up after getting accepted was quite easy, though. Sorry I'm much help this time around.

@@InkRavenLion Thank you. 😁

@@CaraHTheRealCie I'm glad you liked them. And I agree...I'm going to write the stories I want to write. 😁

@@CaraHTheRealCie I was using the free version of Buffer for a very long time. For most, the free version is probably all that you need. But I agree, at the moment, a lot of social platforms are a dumpster fire. 😁

I used to have Four Past Midnight, but I can't remember if it's in storage, got ruined by one of three floods, or if Dad has it.

Not off hand. There could be a number of things preventing it from uploading.

@ I managed to get it to work with kindle create. Not the same aesthetic but good enough. Thanks for replying anyway.

@KainBaker You are welcome. Hope everything goes well for you.

@@bymegangrant Heh...I forgot this short was even live. 😂

No, actually. Instead, you'll have to do much of the legwork yourself. You'll have to contact them directly. The biggest thing to keep in mind is that you cannot use the free ISBNs from Amazon and Barnes & Noble for the books. But you can still get bookstores and libraries to stock a self-published book.

@@WriterSanctuary I imagine this would be a lot of legwork because there are so many bookshops & libraries (in the world). By contrast, going the traditional LitAgent>Publisher route simply avoids all this legwork because they do all of it for you... well, that is assuming that one can ever actually get through 'the narrow door' of a LitAgent (with their strong focus on 'market forces').

@philip-at-tube Probably not as much as you'd think. A lot of them use certain distributors. Not to mention that not every book store carries every book. Sure, agents and publishers might be able to get the book in certain stores, but it's not a guarantee. It's why you'll find one book in a Walmart but not in a Barnes & Noble, or vice-versa.

​@@WriterSanctuary Do you have any videos made about this process i.e. how to get into bookshops & libraries without going the traditional LitAgent>Publisher route ??? I'm a long-time subscriber of yours, but I haven't been very active on your channel recently, though; my sincere apologies for that. However, this issue has caught my attention because I have a book to publish. I have been getting some really nice & encouraging rejections from LitAgents - they often say things like "your book doesn't quite fit with 'my list' but otherwise it's really good, and I strongly encourage you to continue in your search for a LitAgent". I mean, that is nice, and I really do feel encouraged, but I also think 'what will I do if this doesn't work out?' What is the alternative? It seems like you have some ideas about an alternative way of going about this. Well, sorry if this comment a bit long, I sometimes have a tendency to ramble on a bit; getting older, lol. Anyway, in essence: Do you have any videos made about this process i.e. how to get into bookshops & libraries without going the traditional LitAgent>Publisher route ???

@@philip-at-tube I don't have any videos on it yet, but I've been talking with other authors and planning out a blog post and video about getting physical copies into various locations. In fact, it's part of the series I'm make for publishing my next book. I'm going all-in on this one and have quite a bit planned for the future. I'm sorry I'm not much help at the moment. I can say this, though, attending my first book event as an author in person was an incredible experience. 🙂

Thank you. My cats love being on camera. I don't know much about the contests, but I would like to finish the story I have on Inkitt at some point. Then, I can do a thorough review of the platform. It's on my ever-growing list of things to do. lol

@@WriterSanctuary Lol. I'm sure the cats will be there to un-help you every step of the way!

@crystalscherer_author oh yeah...they're a bundle of unhelpfulness...lol

Unfortunately. If you have your own website, you'd be better off spending that time working on it than using Vocal. It might be a good platform for those who don't have a site. But for someone like me, who has too many at the moment, my time is better spent working on those sites instead of my Vocal account.

@@GC-jm9bt I'm always interested in trying out new apps. However, I'm also hyper cautious, especially when it looks like a bot came up with a TH-cam username. 😉

@@Arctya For me, I'd have to say the Reedsy Plot Generator. You can lock certain ideas and re-roll the others and choose from a few different genres. Though, some of the others aren't bad, I just prefer Reedsy.

Unfortunately, Reedsy doesn't have much in terms of making changes to the formatting of the book. It uses a small, medium, and large font size option and one of three font styles when exporting. It's good for those who want to write a basic novel, but not for those who need more customizable options. I show the options in this video, if you'd like to see what I'm talking about: th-cam.com/video/LenWS_MwkvE/w-d-xo.html I hope that helps.

@ thank you!

@@thepaperoracle You are very welcome. 🙂