Too much to do, too little time
April came and went in a flash.. well not quite so. Mindless grinding at work is more like it. I designed and assisted in coding a system that reads documents from a specific site over the web, determines which document it needs then stores a copy for later. Kinda neat. Issue is the personalities and highly stressful work environment... some people don't believe the software concept of reading those financial documents like that is sound. Well, it actually is a sound idea, just hard and all getout to accomplish, but its nowhere near impossible. Then there is the 'burn-out' factor, due to a harsh ( and I mean harsh ) work environment, key people are quitting. I've a suspicion that they secretly hope it will change the environment or even hurt the business in a way (its a small business). I really don't know. I personally just want everything to settle out; I've enough stress without the additional load.
Got my story back from Mystery Mag; they didn't need it at the time but were very polite about it. So , off to edit it and send it out again. Also, I'm nearly done with my next short story. Just one more section to go and its edit time. This one feels smoother though, best plotline I've written yet I think. I bet the editing goes much easier than in the past. Hopefully that will mean it will get a better reception. Eh, who knows. That is the nice thing about being a writer... if its rejected, so what? I like what I wrote and I can always write other stories if the other story ideas just won't pan out. I'm still working on Kinloch 2, I am taking that publisher's advice about Kinloch in that even though its a good story, its tied to Pub America which will cause my work to get that 'guilt by association' problem. That's ok. I'll continue on my short stories, work on a new sci fi novel idea I've got and if all else fails, I'll publish Kinloch 2 myself. Self-publishing I think is viewed like being a lawyer and having yourself as a client but I think nothing ventured, nothing gained. If I can sit at a signing table and sell 16 out of 20 copies in 1 to 2 hours at a Barnes and Nobles, then dang I've got something. I'll just make sure this time I get a publicist right before the release instead of after!!
Got my story back from Mystery Mag; they didn't need it at the time but were very polite about it. So , off to edit it and send it out again. Also, I'm nearly done with my next short story. Just one more section to go and its edit time. This one feels smoother though, best plotline I've written yet I think. I bet the editing goes much easier than in the past. Hopefully that will mean it will get a better reception. Eh, who knows. That is the nice thing about being a writer... if its rejected, so what? I like what I wrote and I can always write other stories if the other story ideas just won't pan out. I'm still working on Kinloch 2, I am taking that publisher's advice about Kinloch in that even though its a good story, its tied to Pub America which will cause my work to get that 'guilt by association' problem. That's ok. I'll continue on my short stories, work on a new sci fi novel idea I've got and if all else fails, I'll publish Kinloch 2 myself. Self-publishing I think is viewed like being a lawyer and having yourself as a client but I think nothing ventured, nothing gained. If I can sit at a signing table and sell 16 out of 20 copies in 1 to 2 hours at a Barnes and Nobles, then dang I've got something. I'll just make sure this time I get a publicist right before the release instead of after!!
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