Utterly unrelatedly...
Sep. 21st, 2012 05:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
noahgibbsI set up a web site with Stripe awhile back to sell my book, and I have it notifying me by email when somebody buys, or when the money has been sitting a week and gets transferred to my bank account.
I keep waiting for the event notice that goes, "you're a fraud and have no business writing a book."
But so far, nope, it's always "here, have $33" or "somebody bought a book."
I keep waiting for the event notice that goes, "you're a fraud and have no business writing a book."
But so far, nope, it's always "here, have $33" or "somebody bought a book."
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Date: 2012-09-22 12:34 pm (UTC)writing a book
is like being a dad.
first, you get this crazy idea.
then, when the baby arrives, you say "what the fuck?"
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Date: 2012-09-22 07:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-23 03:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-23 04:06 am (UTC)But yeah. I think it really does.
Selling a product is extra-likely for most people to feel that way, because information about how it works is hard to find and often inaccurate, and because it works against all of our intuition from everything that isn't selling a product.
I really *don't* have any particular business selling a book, but I tend to have trouble accepting that nobody else does either!