My life

The novel is approaching its final stages. up to 75,000 words, with only back filling( sorry I mean characterisation!) to do. No ending as yet, put I want to leave that. Two reasons: not sure about where I'm at now, and, the fact its a reward for struggling through all that empty white paper. Staring at me. Mocking me to fill it up with something. I don't think I've got the balls to be a professional writer. I'm so full of doubts, and lazy. Even this blog never gets used enough. I feel as if... Sign in to see full entry.

I have found, over the last few months, that the only real way to make money on this acursed site; is to sell wholesale. That is huge car loads of books, as if you were delivering coal. People flim-flam about with a few paperback. Agonising over the purchase as if they were deliberaiting on theird world debt. I just want the money! Steve Sign in to see full entry.

Little to write about. My friend geroge had gone to Addenbrooks for treatment. We have thieves steal our petty cash, and snow had ground the village to a hault. Apart from that, not much. Ebay paying some dividents for us. the novel is grinding slowly on. Not much time or patience for blogs. Steve. Sign in to see full entry.

Watched Mickael Moor's Fah 451 last night. Most interesting was the stuff about John Major being linked with the Carlyle group. I know all ex prime ministers and chancellors, have contacts with big business after they leave office, but this one seems particuly interesting. More later. Steve Sign in to see full entry.

Trade generaly is picking up. there is no doubt about that. I life in a generation of boomand bust. We are always waiting for the next crest fall, and the recesion is only around the corner. Have we ridden this one out? I doubt it. But the nature of recesion has changed. People can't afford to just go on the dole, and doss around. they all have houses, and have to find job. And Ebay make a big difference to small businesses. Steve Sign in to see full entry.

so much to do, so little time to get it done. what with writing projects that grown in such ambition each day....... The Prediction stuff is going well. Trying to put together Port Folio of stuff that should get me some work. ebay just ticking over. The imigration issue seems to be rearing its head again. If we had no rules in this country, most English people would simply go and live in the Med". What is a country? To most people now, its just a piece of real estate. Long gone is the idea of... Sign in to see full entry.

After paying out more to Ebay than we actually make, I've taken a look at some of the other auction sites on the net. If you type in auctions, on google, you get a lot for your money. If you just look at the ones that are advertising down the right hand side, they should do. I shall put a few experimental things on these sites, to see how we get on. Sadly theydon't get 1 percent of Ebay's traffic, but we are not selling that much, and we are desperate!. Steve Sign in to see full entry.

Thanks for all the comments. Ebay do chargefor Turbo lister in a way. They are crafty and make sure you can only sign on in a big way, so there is little point in having Turbo lister, unless you are a shop! I yet to have to make my mind up, as to the merrits of shop over auction. Let you know. I find uploading part of the template, and then adding to it, online, is the best way. E. G: we sell book. I load the barest details on the template, through Tuno. The tile, cost, postage. Once it's... Sign in to see full entry.

If anyone has ever used the Turbo Lister for submitting files on Ebay, you will know what a joke the title is. Nothing could be further from the word Turbo. You can only list 4-5 items before the dam thing crashes.you would have thought that an organisation as big as them, could get some decent programmers to get the dam thing right! I fill in half the details, leaving out editing, then fill it in after on the site. If you use a template that saves some time, but you can only fill in the title.... Sign in to see full entry.

To everyone who took a look at this blogg, thank! In all honesty I never thought I would be taken seriously. Or even read. Being part of any community is hard, as the ones I seem to look in on, are so caught up with deep serious things, I feel embarressed to ask. You can hardly say: "Wait! What the hell are you on about?" People will feel resentful about cutting you in, and rightly so. I must admit, that I'm so caught up in my own world of trying to make money, that I'm blind to the problems of... Sign in to see full entry.