Anne N. Mouse: Blog

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Anne

When I was 20 and went to get jobs it was, 'you're too young', or 'you don't have any experience'. So I joined the army... Soon I wasn't in the army, nor in my 20's any more, but then it was, 'you don't have the right experience', or 'gee we'd like someone with even more experience', now I'm older yet, and still I get, 'gee you don't have the right experience,' or 'we'd like someone with yet more experience in that area', or finally I'm beginning to get, 'well you're just too old...'
Yet I never seemed to get the right experience, and when I was young no one would hire me. Now I admit, for reasons I will not say, I wouldn't hire myself... but then again, yes I would for a lot of jobs if I could make them pay, I'd do them right now, but no one wants to hire as a 'contractor', 'we have someone doing that already...' so... here I sit getting older, no wiser, and wondering, how I missed out on getting experience that would see me hired....

If you are an author, who are your writing heroes? Mine, in no particular order are Louis L'Amour, Robert A Heinlein, Issac Asimov, Mercedes Lackey. Are there others? Sure Stephen King gets a more than honorable mention. There is a book, no more than about 100 pages that Stephen King wrote on the art of writing that I consider to be one of the better instructional books I've ever read on the subject. I'm not sure of the title any more as it has escaped my possession again. I've picked up two copies of it used...
Anyway, what have all of these people in common (I'm sure any writer who has made a living at the craft would say the same...) They all said: Write every day! Don't let your emotions get in the way. Don't let boredom get in the way! Don't read for pleasure, especially before you have completed your daily goal of writing. Set daily goals. Meet your daily goals.
Well some people say that failing to meet my goals after only a few days is not failure. And maybe it isn't failure entirely (after all I'm writing this [even if it isn't a story per se]) but it certainly isn't where I need to be, which is hammering out pieces and parts of a story.

Whenever I start reading I drop all other activities. I couldn't think of anything to write that didn't seem either utterly trite or so horrific that I wouldn't impose it on myself, let alone my fans. So, I haven't written anything in a couple of days.
Thus, I prove once more that I'm utterly unworthy of your respect.
For I can't say that there is any reason other than pure laziness for not sitting down and hammering at the keyboard until something popped out. But lazy is me. And that is why I fail at all aspects of life...

If I decide to take Cocksockett and turn it into something larger, I shall make the title The Rape of Calvin, perhaps it is that the person being raped is a man rather than a woman that causes me to get such bad scores? I suspect it is. Anyway, I'm not complaining per se about getting ones on a story that essentially violates most of my readers' sensibilities but I hope that everyone who voted low on this considers if instead of finding a young man in the grasp of a torturer who was bent on turning her out as a prostitute would you vote the same way?
If so I respect your vote. If not, I don't respect your vote, because in essence you let your concept of how the world should be color your vote.
Anyone who thinks that what is described in the Cocksockett series couldn't happen is fooling themselves.
That's all I have to say.