Whew! I just finished a long weekend volunteering for the Great American Pitchfest and I finally get to sleep in until 7am instead of waking up at 5:30 to beat LA traffic, be on time, and impress everyone at the pitchfest so that they will someday hire me to be their personal assistant so I can start my path to being a famous writer. For 13 hours a day I was the happy, friendly, help-you-as-much-as-I-can, no-task-is-too-small, goody-two-shoes volunteer. Although I enjoy playing that role because I make a lot of friends and I get an avalanche of warm fuzzies for serving others, (high five for warm fuzzies!) it's exhausting. It's fun meeting new people and socializing, it just takes a lot out of me since I'm an introvert. It's funny how most writers tend to be introverts, but their success depends on their ability to be social butterflies and social-media experts. I admit, that part of being a writer is a challenge for me. When the weekend was over and I was ready to put my feet up, my brain immediately started chiding me, "Amy, start emailing all those people you met. Amy, you need to post your pictures on facebook. Amy, for heaven's sake post a blog about your fantastic experience, then send thank you notes to all the other volunteers, and then send emails to all the film executives you met, and then check out the youtube series of the cool actor you met so you can share his videos, and then send, send, send, post post post...AAAHHHHHHH!!!!!! Can I at least sleep in first? and of course my brains say, "NO! You must post! Post until you die!!"
Well, this post is coming two days after the weekend, so obviously I figured out a way to ignore it. (Ha! Take that, you pessimistic old slave driver!) After two days of sleep, looking at my writing projects doesn't make me want to gag anymore and I've been able to get some work done! Yay!!! So now I'm finally going to format the ebook that's been hanging over my head for two months. Reading the Smashwords guide made me want to curl up in a ball and die, various blog posts on e-publishing were a little better, but not by much. And on top of that, my version of MS Word for some reason looks completely different than everyone else's. I don't have a home button or cute little tabs and easy-to-find icons. I have menus, a toolbox, and obscure arrows that love to hide secret menus. It takes me twice as long to reformat because I'm finding MS Word functions embedded deep in my menus. If anyone can tell me how to wave a wand and switch the look of my Word program, please tell me.
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