Another week comes to a close
Well another fun filled week of 9 to 15 hours a day at work comes to a close. What fun... in that 'Water Torture' kind of way.
The CEO stopped by my office the other day. Normally that might sound impressive, but the company in which I work only has at most 12-15 employees. Of those at least 1/2 half or more of the employee base carry the title 'Director' or 'Vice President' ... :-/
If there was any wonder why I pay *no* attention to a person's 'Title' ... there ya go.
He wanted me to tell him how he could help lower the hours I work! lol.. Naturally I looked him right in the eye and said "Hire more software engineers! I can't and don't want to do it all myself." Now will he listen? Dunno. They did post job openings for a junior and senior level software engineers. So we'll see.
But, this week at lunch I managed good headway into a second rewrite of Cold Case. Added a few new scenes and got the character doing some deeper detective work than before. I like it. I had sent the story to a professional fiction editor. As a plus, she writes fiction herself. Now, no one person is the end all be all of fiction writing.. something I've come to learn the hard way, but she gave me some *fascinating* insight into how publishers and agents look at manuscripts. Very valuable information I've been putting to use with Cold Case. I really want to get this manuscript done before the end of August given time.
Also.. to take breaks from Cold Case and Kinloch 2 (yes I'm still working on it, just a bit slowly.. I know, shame on me), I got a very interesting suggestion to write some fan-fiction. Something just for fun so to speak. Normally, I'm a bit resistant to fan-fiction. It always feels like I'm tresspassing in someone's backyard so I don't do it. This time I'm dabbling though with a Star Wars fan-fiction centered on a squad of Imperial Stormtroopers (if you've not seen Star Wars.. think 'military science fiction'). So far, it provides a nice break from the normal routine as it were. Well, since I have this deep seated need to do something with things I create.. I've an idea to make a blog to post these 'episodes' on. In a way, like a homage to the serialized radio shows. When I get the first one done and posted.. I'll drop the new blog link on here. For those who might be curious.
The CEO stopped by my office the other day. Normally that might sound impressive, but the company in which I work only has at most 12-15 employees. Of those at least 1/2 half or more of the employee base carry the title 'Director' or 'Vice President' ... :-/
If there was any wonder why I pay *no* attention to a person's 'Title' ... there ya go.
He wanted me to tell him how he could help lower the hours I work! lol.. Naturally I looked him right in the eye and said "Hire more software engineers! I can't and don't want to do it all myself." Now will he listen? Dunno. They did post job openings for a junior and senior level software engineers. So we'll see.
But, this week at lunch I managed good headway into a second rewrite of Cold Case. Added a few new scenes and got the character doing some deeper detective work than before. I like it. I had sent the story to a professional fiction editor. As a plus, she writes fiction herself. Now, no one person is the end all be all of fiction writing.. something I've come to learn the hard way, but she gave me some *fascinating* insight into how publishers and agents look at manuscripts. Very valuable information I've been putting to use with Cold Case. I really want to get this manuscript done before the end of August given time.
Also.. to take breaks from Cold Case and Kinloch 2 (yes I'm still working on it, just a bit slowly.. I know, shame on me), I got a very interesting suggestion to write some fan-fiction. Something just for fun so to speak. Normally, I'm a bit resistant to fan-fiction. It always feels like I'm tresspassing in someone's backyard so I don't do it. This time I'm dabbling though with a Star Wars fan-fiction centered on a squad of Imperial Stormtroopers (if you've not seen Star Wars.. think 'military science fiction'). So far, it provides a nice break from the normal routine as it were. Well, since I have this deep seated need to do something with things I create.. I've an idea to make a blog to post these 'episodes' on. In a way, like a homage to the serialized radio shows. When I get the first one done and posted.. I'll drop the new blog link on here. For those who might be curious.
posted by Chris Ash | 7:35 AM
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Looking forward to the blog link...sounds interesting.
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