Anne N. Mouse: Blog

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....

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...