New Plans

[december_solstice]

Ideally, I'd like to get my Masters online from Southern New Hampshire University. They have competitive prices, especially for graduate degrees. The New School, where I originally planned to get my Masters, would have cost me about $3500 per course, whereas it would cost me half that here. I could collect enough financial aid to cover my tuition. Because the courses will be online, I will have an open schedule to work a regular job.

Problem is, my $1500 balance at The New School still needs to be paid off. I still need to pay that off or they will not release my transcripts. And, I will not be able to apply elsewhere. I should inquire anyway.

Again, ideally, I don't want to waste any time. I don't want to take a lot of time off. All that does is extend the time in which I don't have my degree. That puts me further away from my goal.

I don't know. Should I start some kind of fundraising page? I don't think it will be successful unless I have a big enough presence online.

Comments

[ringlat.livejournal.com]

You can try a fundraiser anyway, I'm also not sure if it will be successful but it's worth a shot. And for the future, whenever you have free time, you can write really shitty novels that you put zero thought into, and sell them on Lulu and stuff and people will still buy them (dunno if you do something like that already but...).

[outerspace-bae.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of Lulu. I'll check it out! Is this a better option than Amazon Books? I have a novelette on Amazon and available at other major online retailers.

[ringlat.livejournal.com]

I don't know if it's the best option nowadays but it used to be. You can publish your book online and they'll supposedly automatically give it an ISBN and send it to places like Amazon - but I last read all about how it worked some years ago so it could be different now. The good thing was that you used to be able to choose from a lot of different book sizes and paper qualities so you could get your book to be pretty cheap for anyone who'd want to buy it. (And, of course, you could make it an ebook.)

I never had a book on there that cost any money, but I did put up some free "magazines" I made and people did download them without me having advertised them.

[outerspace-bae.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of lame in the way that I have such a difficult time asking people for help. At least in that way.

For me, I'm very open and generous about fundraising and donations. I actually do it quite often! Not in large sums of course, but you know $5-25 every once in a while. I like to think that every dollar counts (it does), and...well, karma. What goes around comes around. You gotta put good out in the world to have it come to you.

[ringlat.livejournal.com]

I also don't like asking for help, but my wife is slowly beating it into me that "no one can do everything by themselves". Now I'm even going to go to the social services to ask for help soon, our own living situation is really bad but my wife doesn't want to go because her parents and family claim they won't help etc (her parents are why we even have to go in the first place - i short they're very emotionally abusive among other things). And I can't go by myself, I'm not even a citizen so they might not help me.

I keep thinking that if I can just sit down and /do/ something, someone will buy it. I mean people are buying gay erotica books like "My Boss Is A Dinosaur". People buy miniature doll furniture. It honestly can't be THAT hard to make money, it's just that finishing something - something that can be sold and that appeals to the general public and that you then advertise in a way that appeals to the general public - is hard when you're not one of those "general public" people...