Thinking...
I was thinking. College is expensive. Like really expensive. Yesterday, I got hit with an email about one of my classes, saying we need a textbook and a math manipulative kit, for a total of just about $160 (if I can rent the textbook and get the manipulatives used instead of new) or a little over $20 more than that if they don't have any used ones left. Ouch. That's a lot of money. I had to ask my dad for help paying for it, and he doesn't have the money right now either, so I had to ask my grandparents. I felt SO bad having to ask them for help like this, but I had literally no other choice - and my dad said he would pay them back as soon as he has the money to.
But anyway, that's why I was thinking about how expensive college is... but here's what I was thinking about:
What if I sold some of the pictures I've taken? Not pictures of people, that would just be weird and creepy... but some of my better sunset or landscape pictures. I'm assuming no one would want to buy them because I'm not a professional in any way, shape, or form... But if I knew people would buy them, I would sell them. Not at ridiculous prices, but like... I don't know... cheap.
And when I finally finish that book I've been working on for forever, I think I might self-publish through Amazon. If I understand everything right (there's a good chance I don't, so...), if you chose to publish it as an e-book (for the Kindle) you get 70% of the royalties. Say I set the price at 3.99, I think that means I would get $2.79 for each copy sold.. which isn't that much money, but I don't think you get paid anything until you've reached more than $100 (the same as what adsense does). Getting $2.79 for each copy sold, I'd only have to sell 36 copies to reach that $100 threshold (it'd be $100.44).
Still, that's not a lot of money, but it would help.
I really want to do my student teaching in Australia, and that's going to be expensive. It would be a year from now (or a year and a half, I think, if they still do that you student teach in the fall semester if you do it in Australia). Which means I need to finish that book as soon as I can. I started that when I was 17 years old and in high school. I've worked on it off and on for 4 years now, often going months without even looking at it before going back to it again. But this on-off, wasting time, etc., has to stop if I'm going to finish it.
I want Australia. Therefore, I have no choice but to finish writing it.
But anyway, that's why I was thinking about how expensive college is... but here's what I was thinking about:
What if I sold some of the pictures I've taken? Not pictures of people, that would just be weird and creepy... but some of my better sunset or landscape pictures. I'm assuming no one would want to buy them because I'm not a professional in any way, shape, or form... But if I knew people would buy them, I would sell them. Not at ridiculous prices, but like... I don't know... cheap.
And when I finally finish that book I've been working on for forever, I think I might self-publish through Amazon. If I understand everything right (there's a good chance I don't, so...), if you chose to publish it as an e-book (for the Kindle) you get 70% of the royalties. Say I set the price at 3.99, I think that means I would get $2.79 for each copy sold.. which isn't that much money, but I don't think you get paid anything until you've reached more than $100 (the same as what adsense does). Getting $2.79 for each copy sold, I'd only have to sell 36 copies to reach that $100 threshold (it'd be $100.44).
Still, that's not a lot of money, but it would help.
I really want to do my student teaching in Australia, and that's going to be expensive. It would be a year from now (or a year and a half, I think, if they still do that you student teach in the fall semester if you do it in Australia). Which means I need to finish that book as soon as I can. I started that when I was 17 years old and in high school. I've worked on it off and on for 4 years now, often going months without even looking at it before going back to it again. But this on-off, wasting time, etc., has to stop if I'm going to finish it.
I want Australia. Therefore, I have no choice but to finish writing it.
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