In today’s Journal
* The boys are back in town
* Topic: Lock Down Your (Possible) URLs
* Daily diary
* Of Interest
* The numbers
The boys are back in town, so tomorrow’s post probably will be short. (Today I at least have a topic for you.)
My son and eldest grandson drove in late last night. I’ll spend most of today visiting with them.
Then this afternoon, one of my friends will drop by. He’ll spend the night too, and then he and I are going on a photographing (research) trip for about half the day on Sunday.
Topic: Lock Down Your (Possible) URLs
With all my talk recently about IP, I haven’t said much (or anything) about URLs.
Note: You can purchase URLs from a number of different registrars. Just key “where can I buy a URL” into a search engine.
URLs are website addresses, like harveystanbrough.com (for example). I also own several other URLs, including hestanbrough.com for this Journal and hstanbrough.com because it’s my name. Always a good idea to lock down the major (“.com”) URLs for your author name even if you don’t have a website yet.
But it’s also a good idea to lock down URLs for your major IPs, or what you believe might be major IPs. Meaning IP in which you see potential.
To that end, I also own wescrowley.com, blackwellops.com, cantinatales.com, gervasioarrancado.com and charlietask.com.
Why?
Because I see potential in each of those. I might never do anything with them, but just in case, I own them. They cost less than $1 per month. To renew, they’re slightly over $1 per month. Not a lot to pay to potentially make millions.
And I urge you to buy any URLs that are important to you sooner rather than later.
For example, say a month or a year or five years from now I come up with a blockbuster idea for licensing a product tied to Blackwell Ops.
I don’t want anyone else to own the URL for their own devious purposes, so say I wait and go looking for blackwellops.com at that point.
But I find that someone else already owns the URL. And it’s for sale (the only reason they bought it). And if I want it, it will cost me a few thousand dollars (instead of $9.06).
Better that I buy it now for $9.06 for the first year and then renew it each year, don’t you think?
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Rolled out early at 1:30, mostly because I want to put some time in the novel before the normal day begins. I didn’t write a lot, but I added some. I’ll more than likely write a lot more tomorrow.
Talk with you again then.
Of Interest
See “From the Philippines, Not With Love…” at https://www.victoriastrauss.com/2019/08/16/from-the-philippines-not-with-love-a-plague-of-publishing-and-marketing-scams-2/. I could add a few more to her list.
See “Tread Lightly on Technology” at http://prowriterswriting.com/tread-lightly-on-technology/.
See “The Villain Wants the McGuffin” at https://stevenpressfield.com/2019/05/the-villain-wants-the-mcguffin/.
See “Roundup of Writing and Publishing Resources” at https://blog.reedsy.com/writing-publishing-resources/. I posted this mostly for the “Writing Genre Fiction” section.
Fiction Words: 1021
Nonfiction Words: 490 (Journal)
Total words for the day: 1511
Writing of Blackwell Ops 7: Glen Marco (novel)
Day 1…… 3222 words. Total words to date…… 3222
Day 2…… 1170 words. Total words to date…… 4392
Day 3…… 3191 words. Total words to date…… 7583
Day 4…… 1374 words. Total words to date…… 8957
Day 5…… 1952 words. Total words to date…… 10909
Day 6…… 1021 words. Total words to date…… 11930
Total fiction words for the month……… 11930
Total fiction words for the year………… 370667
Total nonfiction words for the month… 17510
Total nonfiction words for the year…… 235580
Total words for the year (fiction and this blog)…… 606247
Calendar Year 2019 Novels to Date…………………… 7
Calendar Year 2019 Novellas to Date……………… 1
Calendar Year 2019 Short Stories to Date… 2
Novels (since Oct 19, 2014)…………………………………… 43
Novellas (since Nov 1, 2015)………………………………… 8
Short stories (since Apr 15, 2014)………………… 195
Short story collections……………………………………………… 31