Author: Jacob Swift

Swift is a US Postman, writer, RPG player, husband, and father, based in a small town in Louisiana. After ten years of not seeking publication, he’s decided to try again. In the meantime, he works a manual labor job and cares for his family. This blog site is a spot for him to put his notes and thoughts down, as well as brag about his family’s accomplishments.

A lost crown, and attempts to write.

It seems like I’ll have to test out the new dental insurance, as my crown fell out while on the mail route. As inconveniences go, I have to give it top marks for timing.

I did manage to get to a nearby dentist (2 are on the route) and have it put back in, but with that comes planning for future dental appointments and possibly redoing the root canal.

Yay…

With that, the walking pace was noticeably slower than normal, thanks to the low-level but ever-present pain of having a crown reattached. As a result, I went another day without writing. As soon as I was home, I wanted nothing more than to have an evening of quiet and mindlessly trying to help a settlement in Fallout 4.

Thankfully, the dull pain has lessened, and I’ve been trying to take small moments throughout the day to work on my ideas. I’m making progress on the Star Wars RPG stories, and hopefully will be posting such soon, as well as working on an idea that I want to try. If it’s publishable, I’ll be happy. Otherwise, it’ll be another story I can enjoy.

No real writing done today, as home repair took top priority.

That’s the shutoff valve for the cold water to our washing machine. It broke while I was attempting to move said washer because it, too, broke today.

It’s been a long, long day, readers. It’s past midnight here and I’ve only just finished meal prep for the week. I’m exhausted and I didn’t get to handle any writing today. Either that means I have twice as much work for tomorrow, or I start telling myself that Sunday is my personal day off.

Struggling with the Mobile Version and some personal questions

After managing to clean up the desktop version of the site (organizing the stories to their own menus so it’d look presentable) and scheduling a review for this morning, I went to bed thinking I had made progress on this whole “Can Swift manage his own website?” question rather well.

Imagine my surprise and chagrin when I checked the Mobile version this morning and found it messed up and trying to hold to the very first design I had put down.

I’ll take a look at it later tonight and see what I need to learn to fix it. Or WordPress will do an Internet thing (update) and it’ll look nice before I log in again, this securing me in my belief that I am starting to know what I’m doing.

Let me believe, people.

With that, I’m also debating on just what else I can do here. I was also shown that I can set the site up for people to pay for certain content, so now I’m struggling with that conundrum.

Do I want people to pay me for my writing? Yes, absolutely. But do I want to make people pay me to read my stories here and not via buying a book, thus getting their money’s worth? That’s a struggle.

I’m also enjoying taking the old books I know and love and showcasing them here. I think I’ll try a couple series of this, showing stories and writers I’ve admired over the years. The problem there is that if I started, it’d only be a matter of time before I dived into the Star Wars: Expanded Universe (Legends, now that Disney said my childhood is no longer canon) sagas, and that’s one hell of a rabbit hole to dive into.

We’ll see what happens as the year progresses, but you can expect more stories, occasional essays, and more photos of family chicanery to come.