by Raymond Johnston Jr. Do you have what it takes to be an ezine publisher? Someone told me
other day that anyone could become a newsletter or ezine publisher. That put me into some deep thought about
situation.
I decided that it was probably true that anyone could become a publisher of an ezine or newsletter. The trick is to publish one that is successful and still keep one's sanity.
Sanity you ask? How could I possibly lose my sanity putting out an issue of a newsletter or ezine? Well my good friend, let me help you count
ways.
Right after I first started publishing, I had
chance to go up to a mountain lake with some friends one evening. I actually needed to get my ezine out but I thought what
heck, I will get up a few hours early tomorrow morning and finish putting it together. Wrong unwise one.
The next morning when I got up my electricity was off. I waited quite impatiently as I watched
hours tick away. My wife had a doctor's appointment that afternoon, so I had to leave to take her to town. She had been unable to drive for
last few months due to destroyed ligaments in her foot.
I tried to not think about it as I took her to town. Of course when we finished at
doctor's office, she insisted that I take her out to eat. Well, if you think there was any way that I could say no to that one, you obviously don't have a wife. Or you won't have one for long.
We arrived back home late in
afternoon. I was thrilled to find that
electricity was working again. I started putting together my issue of
ezine. I went to connect to
internet to send it out and could not hook up to my ISP.
I got on
phone and called my ISP and was told that they were having problems of some sort and were not sure when service would be restored.
By this time it was getting on up in
evening and all at once
realization came that I should already have tomorrow's issue ready and yet I had not even started.
This was far from comforting. So I started putting tomorrow's issue together. I had just started working on it when my wife hollered and asked me if I was going to work all night. That's right I thought, I promised her that I would spend some time with her this evening.
After spending a couple of hours with my wife, I started working on
ezine again. I worked until about 2:00 AM. I finally finished and went up to get a few hours sleep before I had to get back up.
About 3:30 I was startled out of bed by what appeared to be a loud scream. I started running towards my wife's bedroom when here came that startling sound again. It was my Tom Cat. He was ready to go outside. Oh I could ignore him but if you know anything about Tom Cats, that would have only punished myself more.