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I\’m not exactly sure why I am writing this blog post. Meh, that\’s a lie. I know exactly why I am writing this. I am avoiding writing smut. It\’s a fight every morning, noon, and midnight. I LOVE writing smut. I FLOW when I write smut. I GET EXCITED when I write smut. So, why do I actively avoid the actual writing portion of my \”writing job\”?

Suffering from Success

D.J. Kahlid

So, to be honest. I never thought I\’d make more than a few bucks at this. I seriously considered that I would publish and no one on earth would be interested, read it, or care. Reddit fixed that for me. When I first started thinking about this, I wrote up a couple of stories, posted them, and waited for the response. 30 upvotes and 18k views changed that idea very quickly. Then came the figuring out how to do the stuff. I can write, been trained for that, but the website, the publishing, the epub and all the software platforms were all new stuff.

And I LOVE figuring out new stuff.

Novelty is my drug and I\’m not afraid to admit it.

When I write a story, I have it already in my head what I want to work on from an outline created previously. Dominic and Rosie have no beginning and therefore need no end. So, for them, outlining looks like \”They do x, y, then z.\” Forty five minutes later, I\’ll have about 1k words describing x and possibly leading to y and for the next three or four days I write and edit that scene.

Now that I feel I have my feet underneath me, I want to work on bigger projects like longer works and full-on \”romance novels.\” The problem I have now is what to write about.

So as we move into the holidays, I think I\’m going to put off publishing anything new until after January 1st. That way, I have a chance to take a break, prioritize and find a plan.