$650 + $9-12 per book

[threemonkeys]

From the local Maungaraki newsletter I see that the little hardware store in the local shopping area is closing down. I'm sorry to see it going. The owner has been very helpful when I have had questions and at times has even had stuff that the big discount store can't provide. The premises are being taken over by an outfit that does self publishing. I was intrigued to read this quote in the article "The stigma of self-publishing doesn't exist". Really?!


They also offer ghost writing services.

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[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

I stopped doing that when I found myself buying things. I have things that *must* be done because I have bought the stuff and am too embarrassed to admit how little sense the instructions make. My home handyperson IQ is as low as my yearning to do home handyperson stuff is high.

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

That all sounds distressingly familiar.

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

Except you have sucecssfully painted fences and done all sorts of wondrous things. I have looked at a crack in my wall and look at the stuff that fills it and pondered it deeply. I turn out to be very good at pondering deeply :).

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

Yes I have managed to do a few things. But the familiarity is there because there are a whole heap of failures you haven't heard about. Most of which are failures to start. I have a room full of stuff I have bought and then haven't used. Which is why I was so proud the other day when I used some of it for a purpose not originally intended.

There is a whole lot of personal analysis possible here for me if I wanted to get into it. All based around how incredibly practical my father was and therefore how useless I am in comparison. Not actually that big a deal but there nevertheless.

[gillpolack.livejournal.com]

Same as me. Practical father and practical older sister. I used to think that it was because they were so very practicla that I never got a chance to experiment as kid. I expected things to come out perfectly with no effort, just as they did for my father. Or my sister would take over when I started fumbling and she would finish it.

These days I tend to think my mind just doesn't work that way. I can work out three different plot solutions for a given fiction problem and I can do historical analysis of almost anything, but I can't translate a set of intructions into something that works three dimensionally. I might have been better with more room to make mistakes as a kid, but I would not have ever been able to do the projects my mind yearns over.

[threemonkeys.livejournal.com]

Good point. I didn't get much chance to experiment when I was younger either so I'm only learning my limitations now.