Today,I…8/3/13

The children's book I'm trying to publish...
         Definitely, the advice I received 
                                     to not do fiction,
was good advice.
I'm doing fiction because I had written a story
           and all I had to do,
                 so I thought,             was to add pictures.            

Wow!  My trying to get artists to draw a picture of a kid by 
showing them pictures of different kids, proved to 
nearly be futile.
                  Basically, I didn't get what I wanted.

I started with 4 artists on Fiverr.com, cut 2, then paid for
pictures from the other two artists to see which artist was
the most suitable for doing the whole book.

Neither of the two remaining artists were suitable.
                   So I'm going to take a short break
                      from trying to communicate what I want
                             in my children's book.

Hopefully, when I find some more possible suitable artists,
         both,
        my communication skills
         and
        the new artists' communication skills will be better than
those expressed during the past 7 days.
           -or, maybe the artists just need to have better artistic skills.                                        I don't know.
                                             

Yesterday, I looked at horse racing and the odds of winning.  I had hoped that if I bet on all the horses that I would win no matter
  which horse came first.
   But no.  It doesn't work that way. In fACT, IT isn't even close!

The past two weeks I have been reading and learning about trading 
  and the stock market.
   I had been thinking that eventually I would end up growing my
    large earnings via the trading,  
     but lately, with my frustration with technology, communicating      to the artists, and lack of enjoyment of doing something 
       creative, I've been more interested in just getting money 
        without working way too hard trying to do something to get          it.

       I do still have to learn more about trading, but my
         learning about how I'm going to possibly make money,
           seems to be a lot more fun than learning how to try to 
             make something from which I possibly can make money. 

There still is my list of things I want to make.
But, at this time,I would say that if I continue to spend lots of 
time learning how to make something, and then try to make it, and 
then, try to sell it for a small amount of money, or worse, don't
even finish it, I may never get enough money, or have enough time,
to make the things that are on my list!

So, the plan right now, is,1)to get other people to finish my 
    children's book, including publishing it;
                           2)  get other people to finish my other 
    books, including publishing them;
                           2-3)get other people to make money for      me from "Now We Shall Begin;"
                           1-3)continue to learn about trading;
                           4)  trade to make more money;
                           1-6)make sleep a priority;
                           1-6)continue socializing 4-5 times/week
    for fun, for making friends for fun, for making friends who I 
    can contract work to; 
                           5-6)get people to build the things on my    list and appropriately sell them so that I keep part ownership;
                           6)  do the other things that are on my 
    list;

(LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS! :-)