Temps More Moderate - Homework on Kickstarter Continues
Now cooler - for the next few days. Still no new calves. Kickstarter research continues as I study successful campaigns and tweak my own. More on all of these and more below...
Hi,
Glad to have you open this once again (or even for a first time). Yes, life (and writing) goes along on this farm with trials, tribulations, joys, and marvels. And my daily/weekly writing continues as well. Glad to share this all with you .
Farming News - Now fourteen calves!. #13 is featured. Rain paused for awhile. Heat comes, then storms, then cool. Rinse/repeat.
Writing News - I was reminded how all writing is built on classics. And even today, how they out rank the novel formats like “socials”.
Expectancy - Your attitude controls what you get. Learning to “seek the silence” is a skill that masters your actual world, and so - the real world.
Fiction - A new section, but I’ve been posting serials lately, and since many found me because of my fiction, I figured this should be broken out.
Farming News
Here’s Calf Number 13. Almost caught up…
Momma’s name is Star. Three generations back, her great-grandma was a white-faced red Angus composite. So our Hereford giving that pattern isn’t too much of a surprise. (Genetics are wierd…)
Here’s where you can give us a fancy name for this bull calf. Send me your ideas for an original name - comment on Substack or reply to this email.
His number is 6, which means we had (does math) 8 heifers this year so far.
We’ve got three cows left to drop their calves. And they are all showing somehow that they are geting ready.
Next week, we’ll catch up with “Betsy” pix for you. Finger’s crossed about the last three.
Guard Dogs
Had to keep an eye out for pictures of these. Because they hide out in the heat - and our neighbor’s front lawn is shade mostly, so Libbie goes over there a lot.
Here they are this morning, being playful with each other on our car port:
Affectionate and best guard dogs ever. Jussie, the male, comes out with me and lets the cows do their thing - unless it looks like I might be at risk, then he comes in closer to make sure I’m not. Otherwise, their main arguments at night are with coyotes, possums, raccoons, and other varmints.
Elderberries
Told you about this last week or so, I think. I started checking the various fencerows for these and got my Mother another half-bucket or so. That all boiled down yesterday, and she told me it made 6 jars of jelly.
But was interesting to me to see while I was picking the ripe ones was this surprise:
One egg in that nest. Don’t know what bird it was. You can see the bird used an old corn stalk as part of it, otherwise it’s fine grasses. And those are green and not-quite-ripe elderberries up close and out of focus.
Green Apples
Our cottage is set close to a big Black Arkansas apple tree. So close, I could reach out and pick them’
This is the first year I was around when the tree was dropping off it’s immature fruit. Probably too many. At any rate, there were quite a few of them. So I picked up a few and asked my Mother if there were some use for little green apples.
Now, she’s busy with a lot of meetings in town and other family matters, so I looked up a recipe myself for making them into jelly. It turns out much the same as ripe apples, only needing the juice of a lemon. I sent it to her and asked politely as possible (without been a pest) of when she planned to get to them. In a day or so (next newsletter) I’ll be able to tell you how they turned out. Again, it was a first for us. Last year, I didn’t notice them, so they all just rotted away and dried up by the time we harvested the bigger ripe apples.
Tiny Home News
Blackberry season looks like it’s over.
Here’s where the last of them went:
Blackberry pie - yum. Was great with vanilla ice cream.
Hoping your summer is as deliciously fruitful.
Writing News
We’re going to reorganize this newsletter so it’s parallel to my four main bodies of published work. So I add Fiction to the main sections.
Today, I realized that I can eventually get up to running four Kickstarters a year, basically mini-events. And the logical way to approach updating and refreshing these four areas is to run those Kickstarters in rotation. And encourage each of them to get some extra income to afford hiring cover designers and editors to upgrade them, as well as audiobook artists.
That’s the big plan coming up.
Of course, you’re going to be asked to share in this wealth of data and support porting these libraries to a broader public than any of us know - but just as you’ve found this newsletter and these books, many others are still looking for solutions in these areas.
This is becoming a movement, a community we can all be part of.
Four diverse areas of data. And more in each of these to come. Probably the hardest work I’ve done yet. Meanwhile, the future rolls out ahead of us - just as hopeful as we make it…
WriterpreneurOS
4th chapter of the Cashflow Code arrived. Follow this serial…
Fiction
And the fiction serial - The Saga of Erotika Jones continues:
Kickstarter Previews Arrive
Did the video and opening graphic. I’m working through all the details about the levels of support, and the “Story” section as a glorified sales page.
Kickstarter display page here:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1481356435/1548894263?ref=a5wy7u&token=315549e4 (Feel free to share that preview…)
Sign up to be notified when it goes live: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/robertworstell/writerpreneur-cracking-the-cashflow-code-non-fiction-book (Sign up now. Share that link with anyone you know who it could help.
PS. I discovered late pledges have been implemented by Kickstarter - so mine will have these for all who missed the initial roll-out.
A Special Offer Returns
For a short time, the beta-readers version of Cracking the Cashflow Code is now available. It will be available at this link until I start the Kickstarter release, you can download the new and improved edition (especially if you already have it from earlier.)
That link is also Pay What You Want - a nice way to donate.
Here’s the link: https://livingsensical.gumroad.com/l/CashflowCode
AN ASK: if you’ve downloaded it, please give some feedback. Leave it in the comments, send me an email. Something, anything. Like it, could be better.
NOTE: This will be a bonus for the Kickstarter. Publishing decisions will be in the next few weeks.
Expectancy - Attitude, again.
One of those four Kickstarters will be about this area. Many of you have followed these newsetters and keep opening them every week just because of my fascination with how to help people become the best possible version of themselves.
And I was reminded this week how much of that happens to you is the result of your own attitude. That a positive attitude is something you work at. It’s that point Napoleon Hill called to our attention - behind every problem, catastrophe, and crisis exists: an opportunity greater than the apparent disaster in front of you. But it’s your attitude that makes it possible to find it.
That is faith. Also called - persistence.
I’ll have some more on this later. Right now, most of my efforts is for this upcoming Kickstarter. Trust me, I’ve got a doozy coming up. That’s just the way I roll.
Expect me to get this up to four Kickstarters a year, and one of these will be devoted to the Expectancy Factor - in all it’s scintillating facets.
Thanks for being there, opening this.
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I hope your life is not too interesting to be overwhelming, but sufficiently engaging to keep you amused. (Like some of us here...)
Robert
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Here’s that new beta-reader advanced copy:
Best of luck with the rest of your calvings. I find the markings on your calves very interesting. I'm curious on how the apples will turn out. My dad lives in Wisconsin and his apple tree dropped little apples this year. He didn't know what to do with them. If it yummy, I'll have to let him know so he can try it too.
Glad you like the calves' colorings.
This is the recipe I pulled up for my Mother. (https://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Christine-Ferber-Green-Apple-Jelly/)
She's got them cooked, and now has to get the juice out for jelly. They look like applesauce as she put them through a Foley Food Mill. We'll hang them over the sink, in sacking suspended from the cabinet doors over it. (Works for farm cheese, so...) I'll keep you posted. And try to get some pictures for next week's newsletter.