Last day of April, and I'm totally bummed. Didn't accomplish half--not even a fourth--of what I wanted to do. This month my work ethic sucked. Sometimes I feel the press of time so intensely that it's almost a physical pain.
Favorite quote about wasting time? "How can you kill time without wounding infinity." I think Thomas Edison said that, but I could be wrong. My brain is not what it used to be. Maybe it never was as good as I like to think.
{big BIG sigh}
I'll check out that quote and get back to you.
Fed up with spam
I'm so disgusted with the volume of spam I receive. My author email addy gets filtered, but I still have to delete the crap--usually about 45-60 a day. My personal email account was getting filtered but the company shut down so now I have to manually filter it and delete. My personal email account isn't even posted anywhere, but I get 75-100 spam emails a day on it. Got to be good old Yahoo groups selling my email addy.
I wish they'd create an anti-spam task force authorized to use deadly force to go after this slime of the earth who sends these messages! Arm them with automatic weapons and have them round up this scum, give them a trial with a jury of the people who have had to deal with their garbage, and then throw them in prison for the rest of their lives!!!
Sound like I'm annoyed? You better believe it! I hope I get picked for the jury.
I wish they'd create an anti-spam task force authorized to use deadly force to go after this slime of the earth who sends these messages! Arm them with automatic weapons and have them round up this scum, give them a trial with a jury of the people who have had to deal with their garbage, and then throw them in prison for the rest of their lives!!!
Sound like I'm annoyed? You better believe it! I hope I get picked for the jury.
Raining down in Texas
I love, love, love Stevie Ray Vaughan. His Floodin' Down In Texas is playing on my PC at the moment. Great theme music for today's weather and the scene I'm writing.
Today's WIP goal: figure out what's bothering me about the plot then fix it and move on.
Unfortunately, I'm the kind of writer that when something starts bothering me about the WIP, I have to figure it out before I can move on. Sometimes, I suspect the problem might be with too much introspection or too much dialogue (I tend to get carried away with banter) but other times, I just have a gut feeling something is wrong. Can't put my finger on it so I keep piling up the words until I can't take the niggling "something's wrong" feeling any longer. Then I have to stop, figure out the problem, and make an adjustment. Kind of like sailing I think. You're following the map but suddenly you realize you've drifted off course. You have to drop anchor, check the map, check the compass, and figure out what went wrong and how to correct it. Then you make a course adjustment and sail on.
At least that's my analogy at the moment--and I'm not a sailor by any means, but this seems to ring true.
Today's WIP goal: figure out what's bothering me about the plot then fix it and move on.
Unfortunately, I'm the kind of writer that when something starts bothering me about the WIP, I have to figure it out before I can move on. Sometimes, I suspect the problem might be with too much introspection or too much dialogue (I tend to get carried away with banter) but other times, I just have a gut feeling something is wrong. Can't put my finger on it so I keep piling up the words until I can't take the niggling "something's wrong" feeling any longer. Then I have to stop, figure out the problem, and make an adjustment. Kind of like sailing I think. You're following the map but suddenly you realize you've drifted off course. You have to drop anchor, check the map, check the compass, and figure out what went wrong and how to correct it. Then you make a course adjustment and sail on.
At least that's my analogy at the moment--and I'm not a sailor by any means, but this seems to ring true.
WIP goals
Quiet Sunday here in Texasland. Not much happening. Mulling several writing ideas. Hey, I love that setting a goal thing. It works. Love it so much I created a bar graph so I could see it each day. WIP end goal as a long gleaming gold bar; daily progress represented by short, but growing, green bar. That's about it from Dullsville.
Writing goal
How many of you set a word goal each day? I once did it back in the old days when I didn't work OTH. Working OTH enabled me to develop some really bad writing habits--like postponing writing until I had a big block of time.
Since I'm unhappy with progress on my WIP, I've decided to start setting a writing goal again and posting my goal here.
Today my goal is 2500 words.
News at 10.
Since I'm unhappy with progress on my WIP, I've decided to start setting a writing goal again and posting my goal here.
Today my goal is 2500 words.
News at 10.
List of Vanity/Subsidy publishers
Just in case you are in doubt about vanity and/or subsidy presses, check out the list Lee Goldberg is compiling on his blog A Writer's Life.
Thanks from all of us!
Thanks from all of us!
Weird Wednesday
I feel weird today. Why? Don't know. Just kind of funky and weird and restless. Maybe it's the weather. Very still and yellowish-gray outside. If you live in Texas, you know what that means in April--thunderstorm coming.
5 Weird Things to do when you feel weird:
1. Exercise (yeah, well, that's how I view exercise even though it's a goal of mine this year to make it a fun part of my daily life. Fun? Yeah, right.)
2. Read a chapter from the Bible--any Bible. Why? I don't know. Maybe it will be a mystical experience that will give you profound insight into something you're struggling with.
3. Re-read a book you adore. Why? That's easy. Comfort read.
4. Cook something strange like cactus. Yep. Got some at my local Wally World produce department during a recent shopping trip. It's been residing in the produce drawer of the fridge ever since because I can't figure out what to do with it--other than add it to the compost pile.
5. Meditate. This is my favorite because every time I try to meditate I fall asleep. And as an insomniac, I can use every wink I can get.
Later! I'm off to the compost pile, sucking in my wayward abdomen as I balance the cactus in one hand and the King James version in my other.
5 Weird Things to do when you feel weird:
1. Exercise (yeah, well, that's how I view exercise even though it's a goal of mine this year to make it a fun part of my daily life. Fun? Yeah, right.)
2. Read a chapter from the Bible--any Bible. Why? I don't know. Maybe it will be a mystical experience that will give you profound insight into something you're struggling with.
3. Re-read a book you adore. Why? That's easy. Comfort read.
4. Cook something strange like cactus. Yep. Got some at my local Wally World produce department during a recent shopping trip. It's been residing in the produce drawer of the fridge ever since because I can't figure out what to do with it--other than add it to the compost pile.
5. Meditate. This is my favorite because every time I try to meditate I fall asleep. And as an insomniac, I can use every wink I can get.
Later! I'm off to the compost pile, sucking in my wayward abdomen as I balance the cactus in one hand and the King James version in my other.
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