"Better Late Than Never"

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Some people take a very long time to do things and, unfortunately, I am one of those people.

 

I’ve been spending years editing a book that I hope to get back into print SOMEDAY, but only because this project was not the ONLY thing that I’m working on and also because months would pass when I didn’t work on it at all.

 

I have also been struggling with the writing of a GHOST Group story for several months. (I will figure it out at some point!)

 

And, just this week, I realized something else: One of my self-published poetry books that was released years ago was NOT available for distribution in the UK. Once I learned this, I was crushed, kicking myself over not discovering this sooner. But the experience had a plus: I now realized that it’s important to check on these books as often as possible to make sure that everything was in order. (I AM the book’s publisher, after all!) I did fix the problem, and now hopefully readers in the UK will be able to buy this book from Amazon.co.uk!

 

But I was still upset over all that time lost over this and probably any sales of the book being lost too! I told my oldest about this and while he, too, got upset over it, he added, “Better late than never.”  

 

Yes, that is true. And this same sentiment applies to how my whole week has been going.

 

One expression I often say is “I may be late for the party, but I’ll still show up.” I am notorious for being late. I have been late for classes, work and appointments.

 

And I may get certain tasks done late, but at least I get them done!

 

This blog post, for example. I try to get blog posts up early in the day while there is a better chance that more people will see it when I share the link, but it ended up being on the blog late in the day because I got too caught up trying to complete ONE thing that I realized would take up all of my day, and I decided that I couldn’t do that because I had other things that I needed to do today.

 

Trying to work on only one thing in my day is torture. I do not recommend it.

 

And that’s not how I work, anyway. I can’t just do ONE thing. I need to be doing multiple things, even in one day!

 

So, yes, that book’s distribution problem has been resolved. And I’ll be keeping an eye on the distribution of all of my other self-published books more often from now on!

 

This blog post has been put up.

 

And today, I also worked on one of the nonfiction books that I have been working on for many years. I have been writing it and researching it. I WILL finish writing this book, too! I’ll finish researching it and writing it and get it out there. It may be written many years later than I planned to finish writing it, but that’s still better than never being written at all.