It Took Me A Year To Write 3,000 Words And That's Okay

Yes, I'm talking about My Neighbor's Fertile Stepson. Which is still available to purchase on Amazon! Or just read, if you're signed up for Kindle Unlimited. I am not picky.

So I'm just going to come clean here. I decided back in... let's go with September of 2016 that I was going to start writing short smut for Kindle. My reasons being:

1. I need money,

2. I want to get some experience self-publishing on a bunch of different platforms and this is way faster than writing novels and novellas

3. I have a lot of smutty ideas that don't fit into another format, and

3. I really need money. (Like you don't.)

But I didn't publish anything until last week. What the hell have I been doing, one might ask?

Well, first of all, I planned to wait until January to get going no matter what, just for tax reasons. My spouse is kind of hot on anything that might make our taxes harder to deal with, and I didn't want to piss her off by starting a new business at the end of the year. Is that normal? Dunno, but it's how I dealt with things. But I was still writing stuff.

And then Trump got elected. I won't get super political, but that fucked me up for months. It's kinda hard to write when you're living in fear. Also I had a few ideas for Chuck Tingle-style White House smut that I had to nix because it turned out Trump was an actual sexual predator and it's kind of hard to write smut about a real-life predator who might also be a pedophile I don't know maybe it's just me.

Still, I got my business going in February. Registered with the state of Maryland and everything. For details check here.

And then... what? Not publishing, that's for sure. Not for months.

Well, I dealt with family life, and work life, and being scared in general. And I finished some stuff I haven't published yet, and worked on things that aren't done but might be published soon. I even threw together an essay for a contest worth five grand. And eventually I got annoyed and finished the naughty neighbor story and published it. Why not? The story was there, and it certainly wasn't doing anything for me being not published.

But it still took me awhile, just to finish editing the draft and getting it together. This book helped me quite a lot, although it was missing a few steps. And now, I'm a published author! Whoo!

Things I learned:

1. Don't be afraid to sit down and write.

2. Don't be afraid to sit down and edit.

3. Don't be afraid.

4. Go ahead and publish your smut at $2.99 because the royalties are way better.

And now back to writing. Wrapping up another one off and getting going on a trilogy that should be... heated. Mmm...

Lea