Autumn’s Affairs #7 – Covid, Ghostwriting, and Planning

Should I keep publishing these Autumn’s Allusions posts to Medium? I’m not sure if I should bother or not. But then again, why not? If they make even a little bit of money there, it’s not a bad thing, right?

COVID: I have a cough and a sore throat today. So you know what automatically comes to mind right? COVID! It’s likely nothing, but I’m going to get tested anyway because I know the way my mind works. I’m going to worry about it until I know for sure that it is nothing.

GHOSTWRITING;In 8 days I’ll be done my current ghostwriting project. And I’ll be done with the novel for myself (which is likely going to be more novella length) and then I can take a few days off. I am thinking I want to plan to write 5 days a week and have two days off a week to do other stuff. No work stuff. I’m truly exhausted. I end up taking days off anyway and then it messes with my plan so if I plan for the days off maybe I will be able to stay on track better.

PLANNING: I’m anxious to get started on writing what I have planned next. I’ve decided I’m going to write a series of novellas. I will write the first 5 or 6 and then schedule them for rapid release. It’s something I’ve wanted to try for a long time and now I can.

REBRANDING: Oh! I’m also really excited about this: I’m rebranding! I’ve ordered new covers for all my Autumn Seave books, and I’m hoping they’ll be ready soon. It’s going to be super nice to have some snazzier covers. I’m also going to rework the blurbs of my current books and take a look at the keywords and see if I can make them work a little better. I do have KDP Rocket so I need to start making use of that. I tried out a lot of stuff when I first got it but I haven’t used it in ages. I’m not even sure if I have it on this computer or not.

PEN NAMES: I’m strongly considering just working on my Autumn Seave pen name and letting the other ones sit. It is too hard to do multiple pen names. I haven’t written anything on two of them in years. The Alicia Stone pen name…well, there’s nothing wrong with it. It’s just not me. Autumn Seave is me.

Well, it’s almost 4 PM here. I have no idea how that happened. So, I guess I should do some work. You know — the kind of work you get paid for?