WOYWW 644 – like a lemming….

06/10/2021 by UKMA 14 Comments

I have had a mad week. Need a root canal (What fun!) and then there were Drs. appointments and admin stuff around the house and all manner of …stuff. I also had a bit of a mad ATC trading session, and trying to get everything sorted and packaged up for the next time I am near he post office resulted in my desk looking like THIS:

Chaos. With a bit of dedication – scuppered for a bit as Facebook was down for a long time, and many of the trades were in private FB groups, where I wanted to double (and triple) check to make sure that I was sending the right cards to the right people – I managed to get everything packaged up, the envelopes constructed, the extra goodie bags compiled, and quite a stack of the extra-bits-bags pre-made for future trades!

The clear pouch is full of all I have left to trade, so I will aim to update my page at the top so it only has items available. If you want to trade, feel free to let me know here!

Now, I have hinted over the last week or so that I was waiting for a bit of news. Here it is, and I have to thank (blame? lol!) fellow desker AliWade for mentioning KDP, which is Kindle Direct Publishing. Who among us has not received, for some occasion, a blank journal, with a clever title on the front, that reflects an obsession? I think I have gotten 4 or 5 over the last year or two, all knitting related. I love them and have used them. Well, KDP is the way those get made. Google it or look for it on YouTube. Basically you make a cover (to the exact specs from Amazon) as a pdf, then make interior pages (and 120 pages seems a sort of norm) with lines or dots or grids or whatever, the upload it for sale. In theory you passively wait for the money to roll in. In reality, it’s a lot more complex than that. But fun. I now have three for sale – and long time readers will note that the Life is so Daily image is based on a planner I made back in…2015 I think, so not very hard to make.

Part of the reason I was delayed was first I made a typo in my subtitle on the bright one (and you cannot correct that yourself, only Amazon can do it) which will surprise regular readers not one little bit and then my slightly buggy and no longer supported program didn’t save a change I made to correct the spacing on the pastel version and I didn’t notice. The two line-a-day journals and for journaling (surprise, surprise) so are what they call “low-content” in that they have pages full of date blocks and journaling lines, plus a little intro page about establishing habits and journaling, etc. The Walking one has a much more complex interior, and is sort of a log book for walkers. I have a lot more to say about this whole Low/No-content KDP publishing phenomenon but I’ll save it for another day. So yeah, thanks Ali! It’s been a fun process. I may never sell a copy, but I know someone who loves what was on YOUR journal and that may end up as a gift in December…..

Lastly, If you HAD to…

Oh dear. No a fan of alcohol (diabetes and all) OR pain, but in the hopes that the LIGHT means less sugar, I guess I would have a big lunch as an actual MEAL then graze for the rest of the day. It doesn’t say “with every bit of food” so as long as I can justify eating not-a-meal I figure I can game the system well enough. How about you?

Oh and PS if you didn’t listen to Julia’s interview by her daughter that she linked previously, do. It’s entertaining and interesting. Happy WOYWW!