One of Winston Churchill's greatest ever quotes!
Well, 2021 seems from this vantage point to be pretty near a mirror image of 2020. Saints preserve us! Wife and I are both still long term unemployed. Too young still for social security and too old to get hired at real jobs anymore. Take the alleged glass ceiling for women/minorities and triple it - no employer will touch a job hunter in their 50's or 60's, regardless of skills or experience. So we're working multiple part-time side gigs to keep the mortgage paid and the lights on.
Time for writing still - almost nil. Health (especially chronic pain from 4 orthopedic surgeries) remains an issue. No meds - decided a year or two ago that I'd live with the pain rather than live like a zombie on oxy. It's do-able... but challenging. At least I can think straight again.
I want to write / I sort of NEED to write... but making an extra dollar or three still sort of dominates my computer time. I've thought about putting in a shameless plug for my eBay & Etsy sale pages, but I'm still very leary of breaking the firewall between RL and activity on a 'Sex Story Site', not that my stories are particularly sex-filled.
Several long-time readers of my strangely peculiar stories have suggested that I set up a Patreon page. Sure... but my issue with this is deciding what sort of 'value' my members would tangibly receive. I suppose you could receive early chapter reads, and I could mandate then that I'd have to dedicate a minimum amount of new writing time per week in compensation. It still doesn't entirely make sense in my head - give me your thoughts and ideas on this: what would make it work for you.
I took an hour this evening to review story outline notes for several things and to reshuffle my to-do queue a bit. About three weeks ago I managed six pages on a new story, but it already needs a complete redo. Of course all of the usual 'old/incomplete/pending' things desperately need attention too. Maybe that's something that Patreon members could do - vote for priorities.
For now, I'll just keep buggering on - getting out of bed in the morning and trying to get a few useful things done each day :)