It's been a completely boring week except for the fact that I came back from Canada with COVID. I had some symptoms I didn't think much of Sunday at the end of the drive back. But I was coughing enough by Tuesday to check. I never had a fever and have had no trouble with the cough after Tuesday night. If I understand the protocols, I'm now in the wear-a-mask stage. I've been on my own upstairs this week and no one else is sick thankfully. I went to a burial service Monday so am very thankful no one with whom I came into contact there is sick. Second time to have it (to my knowledge).
The Lord has been good to me this week. I've seen the way forward on some long-term stressors. I had a goal of using some of my venues to build an extra-funding stream, but I've actually seen almost all my markers go down since I formulated my plan. :-) I wonder if AI is cutting into my YouTube audience. For all the pushing I've done with self-publication, my sales are a trickle, barely existent. My Hebrew Udemy course is doing well, but I wonder if the Udemy market will thrive as AI continues to ramp up.
On Thursday I jotted down thirty book projects that I've been actively working on or contemplating in these last weeks. I've decided I just need to do them whether anyone buys them or not. I've also thought that I may need to stop thinking about my contacts from the past as my book market. My YouTube and Udemy audiences are not personal contacts. They're from completely outside my world. I wonder if I should transition thinking about my book market in the same way.
I don't know what that looks like. One night this week when I was having trouble sleeping, I set up a website through WIX. However, it's nothing like what I wanted. If you want a laugh, go to kenschenck.com I wanted to use the site as a bookstore front for all my self-published books on Amazon. I wish I could blame COVID fog, but it didn't turn out anything like what I was trying to do. A little funny. I've got to figure out how to pull out all the wires and relaunch the thing.
In my work, I've been doing some instructional design on a College Algebra course. One of the fun aspects of my job is that I can create foundations in almost any discipline. Then a specialist can take it home. I do know algebra. It's been fun writing materials for the course. I was tempted even to do a Udemy course on the side in Algebra 1. But my voice isn't really suitable for long-term recording right now. Perhaps that is the Lord stopping me. Too many other projects anyway.
I suspect that, before this year is done, I will finally have the chance to build the foundations for online courses in biology, chemistry, calculus, and physics too, a dream come true. I almost get angry when I think of how I begged Houghton and SWU to innovate with me to put these sorts of courses on the Campus platform. IWU was dismissive too.
So in the words of Thanos, "Fine. I'll do it myself."
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