In This Episode

This is the September and October 2020 monthly report.

Show Credits

Main show hosted, produced, mixed, edited & music by Mark.

BlogScript

Welcome to ApexThis.Podcast. A chronicle of my journey to start a publishing side business. This will be a behind the scenes look at what I’m doing to make that happen. I’ll share tips and best practices that I learn along the way. Tips that you can use to start your very own indie publishing journey and share your voice with the world.

Coming up…the August Update

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We skipped a month but we’re back. If you’re here with me, welcome. These episodes are more for me but I welcome you here. As usual, these are monthly update episodes and I will quickly going through September and October. So let’s get started.

Monthly Focus

There was a lot of focus areas for September and October:

• Mixtape Formatting
• Waited Revision
• Website Update

These are the primary areas to which I should be focusing on for September and October.

For the secondary focus I noted to do:

• Publish & Thrive Course
• 2 podcast episodes
• 1 youtube video

Let’s jump into the work hours for the month to breakdown the actual work down:

Hours Worked – September

Time Logged – 34hrs

Time Breakdown

Here is a breakdown of my monthly time and the coinciding monthly focus.

Focus – Mixtape – 3h 5m

Formatting research and testing

Focus – Waited – 4h 47m

Revision Process

Focus – Website Prototype – 10h 18m

ApexThis website redesign

Secondary Focus – Podcast – 6h 11m

Planner swap video

August Update, Dreams, Writing

Secondary Focus – Publish & Thrive – 4h 2m

Keynote slide designs and prep

Secondary Focus – YouTube – 3h 18m

Misc

Editing Notes – 40m

Started outlining a document for editing and revisions to share

Admin – 1h 37

email finances taxes planning

Hours Worked – October

Time Logged – 18hrs 47m

Time Breakdown

Here is a breakdown of my monthly time and the coinciding monthly focus.

Focus – Waited – 2h 12m

Revision Process

Focus – Website Prototype – 10h 19m

ApexThis website redesign. I find it hilarious that this is just 1 minute more than Septembers time.

Secondary Focus – Podcast – 32m

Started outline of episode, never finished.

Misc

Training – 52m

20k Website webinar

Admin – 1h 28m

email finances taxes planning

Project Battlefield – 1h 7m

Story outlining

Project King – 2h 14m

Project outlining and started writing.

Finance

No financial changes this month outside of standard expenses.

Summary

Completed the website testing and update to production for phase 1. There are still updates but will be done later. I did not record any podcasts and slid into a slump for October. This is evident from the logged hours. I think this may be a natural lull for me.

What’s Next?

Focus Areas:

• NaNo Project
• Waited Secondary Revision

Revisions for Waited short story is progressing slowly but edits are still being done and will continue to be a focus for November.

November, I will also attempt NaNoWriMo with Project King, a story that’s been on my radar for a while.

Lastly, resuming podcast releases will be important.

In Closing

Continued progress and I am learning my new cadence. At times it feels that if I don’t have the pressure of having a million things to do that I am not being productive thus its been a little bit of an adjustment in making writing and publishing a focus and not managing a 1k+ person meetup group and community.

The writing and edits continue.

Until next time