Anne N. Mouse: Blog

From me at least... I am strongly frustrated by authors who do not use a proofreader. I also want all of my readers of all of my works to know that I strongly appreciate any suggestions that may be made with regard to improving my work.
I know I have stalled work, and I know that what I've called flash stories are closer to scenes that aren't really stories. I do ask you indulgence there as I try to develop my ability to know what constitutes a true story (not a story that is true but one that is complete) when I'm the author rather than the reader.
Anyway, if I run into a story that stays (or is published) with a lack of proofreading I will mark it lower than I would otherwise, simply because in the end, lack of proofreading at a site like this with a number of volunteer proofreaders available is laziness in my mind.
And yes I do know I've been somewhat lazy with what I've put up lately, however, I do solicit any suggested improvements to any and all of my stories once more.

I have a tendency to <s>rust</s> er rest too much when I don't have a regular job... :( so when I do go back to work I often end up feeling like rigor mortis or something has set in once I stop moving at the end of the day... I mean there are days when in the midst of the work I almost wish a chunk of rust would break free and put an end to the pain of trying to go back to work after <s>rest</s> er rusting too long....
Yeah I know bad habits and all... :-(

I refuse to believe that any of my work deserves a vote of less than three. Therefore it is my contention that any votes I have of one or two are as always, someone who essentially bombed the story because they didn't like the subject or the manner in which I handled it... My latest story has about 260 downloads and the usual nice spread of votes in the 6,7,8 range, with the obligatory 2 dragging the cumulative score down. Now I understand there is one more possibility that is driving that in this case, and that is that the story is just over 700 words and I may have not really got a beginning, middle and end in it... But if that is so, and someone disliked that issue, maybe rather than just a drive-by bombing, couldn't they at least send me a note saying, you failed to really have a story here?

In essence Google, Facebook and Twitter are the new gatekeepers with regard to what you can publish in the 'journalist' area, while Amazon is the gatekeeper for what you can publish if you want to go the way of a long form novel in essence, and if you can't get your novel on their platform you essentially can't make a living if being a novelist is what you want to do.
Then finally there is the whole money transfer business of paypal which can say they won't pay you if they don't approve of your business not to mention patreon which purports to be the place where a person can go to raise money if they can promote themselves...
Anyway, given my paranoia issues, I don't use anything except blogger (which is a Google company) which won't monetize my account because I marked it as having 'adult' content.
The thing is that for about three hours I've been sitting here listening to Tom Pool and getting an even wider education about the whole issue of these platforms being able to remove people from their platform which probably isn't helping my paranoia issue.
Now where was I going? Oh yeah... short thought, how to get past the gatekeepers and an appreciation of Laz for providing the platform here that he has only limited to the extent that he is limited by the law of the nation where he has his server.
Mind that Canada worries me to a great deal. I make no bones about the fact that I'm bisexual, that I've had a relationship with one person of each sex and that they both failed spectacularly, and that both partners blamed me so I assume I'm too broken to try again.
Well shit there I went oversharing... Just trying to establish my bonefides given that I have used language that is very inflammatory in my writing. And I worry about eventually having to pull some of my stories or further limit what I will write...
Most people have an idea what issues have been talked to death here that Canada has already stepped in on WRT items publish on this site. Given their current direction of movement I do worry.

So... Obviously I ought to practice better work habits. That means writing something for posting to my stories section (or my external blog) before writing here or commenting on youtube videos. Yet here I am (and there I've been) Here I'm writing this blog, and on youtube I've been doing some commentary on posted video.
Anyway, I suppose that I ought to post this and then get over to a blank WP and work on something that I can see the result of wrt how many views an individual item gets.