Anne N. Mouse: Blog

When you live long enough (and I'm still a spring chicken some have told me) there are those who pass out of your life who you sorely miss. I've mentioned some of the authors we see here such as Wes Boyd before, so I won't concentrate on them again, just know that when we lose someone from our midst we have a gaping hole.

I write this blog because I was listening to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRB1CWgMFU4 If you've never heard Paul Harvey then you have truly missed hearing a man who was a master of words. I only wish my writing were half so insightful as what he managed to put together in far fewer words than I every use.

Good Day,

TJ

Earlier today, I read a question by a commentor on another site asking why authors stop writing. Some of the responses were, 'we're being criticized' (to which I thought 'grow a pair, or rhino skin...' whichever suits you!) but another was that they don't get feedback.
Now I won't complain about getting feedback as when I'm posting regularly, I get feedback and plenty of it. Yet at the same time it seems that the number of comments I get versus the number of items posted is rather thin, unless I specifically beg for feedback.
So I'll ask the other authors, do you experience a dearth of feedback if you fail to post on a regular schedule?
To me it appears that I get comments (on some items) the first day they appear, then the comments stop... The downloads slow down a bit, but I have items that regularly receive in the neighborhood of 10-15 hits per week. Since they are short, I can't tell if anyone is reading them unless I (which I do) occasionally get the note that says 'Wow I liked this!' or the equivalent.
Anyway, I'm somewhat interested in the experience of other authors in this regard.
And I gives a rip if someone dislikes my work, or even writes me complaining notes. In fact, so long as they deal with the quality of my writing rather than the subject matter I want that sort of feedback too. I want to improve my ability at this craft. Someday, I'd like to produce something that I think would be good enough to warrant going to Amazon with it. Right now my endings are not satisfactory to me, let alone my audience so far as I can tell.
TYVM
TJ

I can't seem to help myself... I take a couple of lazy days off from writing and come back to what I've posted and look at the file and decide to do some tweaking. So A Wait Problem is updated today, I don't know that I got everything that I should have, and I don't know that what I did to it has improved it. Then again, I am not trusting my judgement with regard to my own writing. After all your writing is somewhat like your children, that is that you tend to be apt to overlook flaws in either one due to wishing to launch them both into the future...
Anyway, I know it hasn't been a favorite of anyone's but I thought some might wish to know that I had done some minor changes and posted them.

Please drop me a line with a good e-mail address. I would love to get back to proofreading your work!
Thanks
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....