Sunday and Monday's Online Work

I did fall behind in keeping on top of notifications on this site, due to a cold that simply wouldn't shift. I still have a lot to go through. It's annoying when companies you have to deal with alter things so that your work doesn't benefit as much - unless you're a big player (yes YouTube, I'm talking about you). I could manage to write that every day, but I'm still struggling for inspiration some times. Ideas on subjects to write about, yes, actually filling in the content is harder. I have been outsourcing one project per month since August, which is helping, plus I've been doing some collaborative projects with others. So income has finally started increasing again - it was stagnant for a few months. Muscle imbalance sounds less serious than some things it could be. I think, anyway.

@OneOfMany My command of grammar is not as good as it once was. I think this is partly due to the quality of proofreading of published books in general not being as good (I recently read a mainstream paperback by a big author that was missing a chunk of text - not sure how much but it could have been a couple of pages). It can be difficult when they are so many different things you want to spend time on. When the big companies go after scammers and "bad actors" (to quote YouTube) it seems that it's the smallest content creators who get hammered the most. One of the things that YouTube said in their blog on the subject was that views and subscribers are not as important as quality. Yet it was those without views and subscribers they went after (I posted a comment asking whether the writer had actually read what they'd written) - and there's a lot of good quality stuff that falls below the threshold. Heck, from what I've seen, a lot of content publishers above the threshold got that way by publishing pure garbage. At the rate I was building views and subscribers it would be years before I reach that goal, years in which YouTube would earn from my work but I wouldn't. Something that would lose me thousands of dollars. I'm seriously considering setting all my videos to private and never uploading anything else to the site, instead looking for another way. I still have an awful lot of in-progress works and I'm not getting anywhere publishing new Kindle ebooks. I have one I've been working on for a couple of years! Yes, a clot would be worse, so that is an improvement. If a health problem can ever be called an improvement!

@OneOfMany There was a sitcom released in Britain in the 80s I think called Yes Minister (and then Yes Prime Minister). The writers took a different approach; they assumed that people would be able to understand more complicated writing rather than dumbing it down. It was very successful. I think more should be done like that. Well, I suppose YouTube isn't going south for everyone. If you're making YouTube a lot of money, you're still golden. If you aren't making them a lot of money now, they don't care about supporting you so that you could in the future. Yes, a viable alternative is difficult but it annoys me that I could be making videos that YouTube benefits from but I don't. I had planned to create and release a bunch of pretty niche ones, but now I'm not sure. I have partially started well over 50 RPG supplements, not counting other works in progress - and that's only the ones I've started typing out. Some (not many) of those are over 10,000 words long. There are also all the ones that are simply in my notebooks, from ideas to partially fleshed out. One reason I've been using a freelancer is to write ideas I've had but that I can't see myself completing. I think it can be a good idea using pennames, especially if your work is widely divergent (or provocative) - I kind of wish I'd used one for my RPG supplements now. I really need to get back into my exercise routine. I was doing about an hour a day but got bored of it, so I'm currently doing much less.

Thanks! I have three Kindle ebooks currently, but I haven't done much in ebooks of that nature as yet, so diversifying into other platforms is still a bit off.

@egdcltd That's wonderful! Continued success!

Thanks!

Thanks!