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Had my performance evaluation at work
Things turned out okay. I've never really been all that into having performance evaluations at work. Never really cared. But everything seemed to be okay. I'm currently in the process of configuring a database at work, and it's far more work than I expected. It's pretty much overwhelming everything else I'm doing at the moment.
Women can be strange
I created a personal ad on Craigslist for the Grand Rapids area, and I have had about five responses. For some bizarre reason, all five are married. I've gone over my ad a number of times but can't see any reason why I'd ONLY be attracting married women. It just seems odd that when I state that I don't play games and I'm monogomous, that is interpreted as "he might like me cause I'm already married." Again, Reason #77 why I don't understand women.
Writing in hiatus mode
I guess it has something to do with my feeling that I'm in a transition state (to where or what, who knows?) but I haven't had the desire to do any writing whatsoever. My novel THE AMERIAD is with an agent right now, but there's no guaranteeing she's going to accept it for representation. It's like the writing industry has become so much harder these days, mainly because it's become so easy to get published the wrong way. Everyone claims to be a writer, and with vanity presses, anyone can be without going through the long term process of publishing. It also means zero sales and a false sense of believing one is a successful writer. But it also means getting published the old fashioned, established way appears almost impossible in comparison to the old days. In the old days, bad writers would give up and move on. But with the false sense of success they get from vanity presses, they stick around and they crowd the real publishers who now hae to treat everyone as a novice because they're overwhelmed with submissions from people who send a first draft of their first novel, convinced it should immediately make them rich.
It becomes very frustrating for those who have stuck it out long term back in the days when success took a completely different route. It's this mentality that garnered the response from a colleague who told me that I should consider myself a success because I've finished novels, not because I've published, and that success itself is in the eye of the beholder. It's this kind of crap that makes it even harder to justify I'm a writer. It's not a feel good thing to me. It's an occupation I want to be working in for the rest of my life. For me, the IRS determines if I'm a successful writer, not Dr. Phil.
Stumble It!
Things turned out okay. I've never really been all that into having performance evaluations at work. Never really cared. But everything seemed to be okay. I'm currently in the process of configuring a database at work, and it's far more work than I expected. It's pretty much overwhelming everything else I'm doing at the moment.
Women can be strange
I created a personal ad on Craigslist for the Grand Rapids area, and I have had about five responses. For some bizarre reason, all five are married. I've gone over my ad a number of times but can't see any reason why I'd ONLY be attracting married women. It just seems odd that when I state that I don't play games and I'm monogomous, that is interpreted as "he might like me cause I'm already married." Again, Reason #77 why I don't understand women.
Writing in hiatus mode
I guess it has something to do with my feeling that I'm in a transition state (to where or what, who knows?) but I haven't had the desire to do any writing whatsoever. My novel THE AMERIAD is with an agent right now, but there's no guaranteeing she's going to accept it for representation. It's like the writing industry has become so much harder these days, mainly because it's become so easy to get published the wrong way. Everyone claims to be a writer, and with vanity presses, anyone can be without going through the long term process of publishing. It also means zero sales and a false sense of believing one is a successful writer. But it also means getting published the old fashioned, established way appears almost impossible in comparison to the old days. In the old days, bad writers would give up and move on. But with the false sense of success they get from vanity presses, they stick around and they crowd the real publishers who now hae to treat everyone as a novice because they're overwhelmed with submissions from people who send a first draft of their first novel, convinced it should immediately make them rich.
It becomes very frustrating for those who have stuck it out long term back in the days when success took a completely different route. It's this mentality that garnered the response from a colleague who told me that I should consider myself a success because I've finished novels, not because I've published, and that success itself is in the eye of the beholder. It's this kind of crap that makes it even harder to justify I'm a writer. It's not a feel good thing to me. It's an occupation I want to be working in for the rest of my life. For me, the IRS determines if I'm a successful writer, not Dr. Phil.
Stumble It!
posted by Duane @ 6:51 AM
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