/lit/ - Literature

>>18880832
Alcohol

>>18689333
1st book back in 2013 barely broke even after a year, but I was with Amazon and only making $4 in profit per book or so after printing and shipping costs. At the time, I was also still making a high income as a porn affiliate, so I didn't work on the book. The process of completing it and releasing it drastically changed my life for the better and lead directly to having my 1st born child.

2nd book I have spent approximately $2,000 on developing the method of how to control the entire process from imagining a story to shipping the finished product out the door. I've been researching this for awhile now and now will be able to fully create a store-bought quality novel for about $1 USD. This method can also scale up so if you were in a position, by act of God or a little luck, that you had a demand of 100 books a day averaged out over a month
>A demand of 3000 book sales a month
you could hire someone to run the machine and they could probably pump out 10 books an hour at $25 an hour, so you could realistically fulfill 1600 books a month per employee.

After working the process for the last little while, I believe it will be much quicker to get the 3rd and 4th books finished and out the door now as the process of learning the physical book-binding, printing, cover design, and many other small details of artisan book binding had me hung up and frustrated at many, many points across the last few years. I originally used InDesign and had become pretty good at using it and just a number of months ago those fucks at Adobe NOW REQUIRE Windows 10!

Fuck Windows 10! I will never fucking use that shit. Holy fuck, Adobe fucked me hard because I had already spent AGES using InDesign to learn it and put my 2nd book in there and work with the layout.

I had to start completely over again learning how to do an internal book layout without fucking InDesign. Finally, my alcoholism is in remission as well, which makes the whole process worth it.

>>18652697
Are you looking for advice on how to come up with ideas, or how to follow through on them?

Don't be afraid to fail. You'll fall and get hurt so many times in life, but the true measure of a man is how many times you can get kicked in the balls and still keep a smile on your face and plug away at life. Also, I pray, it helps.

I think of all the times I have flirted with women and been rejected, I even remember one time my date to a party LITERALLY DODGED MY KISS at midnight on New Year's Eve back like 12 years ago, hahaha... but then you have to remember the times where you went on a first date and you went for the kiss and it worked!

2021 is tougher than nails, I feel like life 20 years ago was so much simpler. I guess now you really have to stay focused on the positive and not let the self-doubt that has overwhelmed most people get you too!

Also: try and drink less. I'm down to about two blackout-drunk events per month.