And a New Chapter Begins
During a conversation with a friend one morning, she asked me if I was able to make money off of my blog. I said I could, but I didn’t know how to do it. Outside of a paywall, I could run ads on the blog; however I despise pop-ups on the blogs I personally read and don’t really want to do that to my readers. I mean, I understand why it’s done, I just choose not to do it. Anyway, I started looking at what I could do with this blog outside of just throwing words and thoughts out into the digital void and hope someone finds some enjoyment from my chaos. Well I’ll be damned. I can put a paywall up - but do I want to do that for the entire blog? Not really, because what I post here in Slice of Life is just snippets of my life without the image filters and curated AI verbiage that seems to be growing nowadays. I then discovered that certain “pages” can be put behind paywalls. That’s ideal - especially when you deal with energy and have an unfiltered mouth like I do (I’m tired of not using names in my posts but, ya know, hurt feelings and the like). AND I would like to publish my stories and books, however the publishing process is a ball ache and using third party online publishers is like asking someone to fuck you in the ass with a cactus dildo using ground glass for lube - no judgment for anyone who has done that. When it’s your work and Amazon/Apple/Who-Ever-The-Fuck publishing company wants a chunk of the revenue…yeah, not happening. It’s my energy going into the books, my time, my effort, MY RIGHTS to do whatever I want with my work - I’m not about to give that away. However, just having the ability to blog costs money and that cost goes up when you offer subscriptions and the like because of the payment processing fees - which seriously, what fees? It’s all electronic. If someone can explain that to me like I’m three, I would appreciate it.
Anyhoo, started going on a tangent… Monetizing the blog! That’s what this is about! Now that I know I can monetize separate pages, I plan on having more pages available - starting with what I had published two years ago. Animal Kingdom was my first “professionally” digitally published work and while it was just a collection of humorous Facebook posts I’d done in dealing with what was apparently a spider infestation of my home while I was entering the “romantic realm” - and probably the beginning of yet another spiritual awakening (Lord, how many of these did my soul sign up for?) - it showed me that I did have the gumption to work towards my dream of being a published author. In the same thread of Animal Kingdom, I was going to use Facebook as a platform to document my foray into the dating world because of things people had said when they found out I was “putting myself out there so soon after becoming a widow.” As that “story arc” became much more serious and convoluted, I decided just to use my journal entries as the basis for my next book - Broken Romance. And that’s where things completely stalled out. Now, however, I want to publish those journal entries not as a novel, but as a guide for others. They say hindsight is 20/20 and no truer words were spoken. I read some of those entries and wondered how in the hell did I miss ALLLL of the issues; not just in my ex, but within myself? I had to remember that I wasn’t the same person I was three years ago and to forgive myself for missing the cues. I found myself acting like the backseat driver; giving my past self the advice I would give someone today if they came to me in the same situation. Publishing Broken Romance would be more along the lines of a “self-help” type of read. I also plan on having a folder for Tarot - for some reason I keep getting pings to do cards because of the energy I get hit with. I could probably do those on the TikToks, but some of these readings…yeah, community standard violations would be abundant. Idk what people are doing but DAYUM! Y’alls’ energy is running amuck.
So…yeah. Changes are coming, and while Slice of Life will always be a free read, there’s going to be pay-to-read options more tailored to specific groups. I’m also looking at other platforms such as Medium, LinkedIn, OnlyFans (eyes up here buddy), while still maintaining this blog and the TikToks. I’m not using Facebook because Facebook’s just… Gross? I don’t know. I just don’t like Facebook anymore. It gives me the icks. I’m thinking about looking into Lemon8 to see if it’s another version of Instagram/Pintrest or if its as refreshing as the name is. I’m excited to be embarking on this part of my journey in conjunction with other things that are happening behind the scenes. Those things are scaring the shit out of me, but holy fuck! The pay off is going to be so fucking worth it. Those things will take off within the next week and I just cannot fucking wait!!!! I’ll update once everything gets to the point of no return. Once it gets there, there’s no turning back without literally losing e v e r y t h i n g. Hold onto your ass Fred! Life is gonna be going mach 10 with nothing but good things coming <3
