Anne N. Mouse: Blog

Or not scoring stories is odd to me, I wonder why a person fails to score a story; good, bad, or otherwise, scores are craved by most who write on these sites.
So, my reason for not voting? I don't feel that I can give a reasonable score... Maybe I dislike the subject of the story? Though usually that is taken care of when I read, either the blurb or the tags. If a story is not tagged in a way that I find compelling it rarely gets opened. Of course I often start stories without finishing reading them, so those are stories I don't score... A putative zero, if you will, but zeros are not allowed in the scoring system.
Yet that is what I assume when a story I post fails to elicit feedback or scores...

One of the reasons that I really like this story is that I identify so strongly with Tim. Except for me I'm sort of like Benny in some ways, except for forms. When I fill a form, I can almost hear someone standing over me demanding to know if what I put on the form is true.
This of course makes it very difficult(damn nearly impossible really)to fill such wonders of modern life as employment applications.
And before you say do online apps? They can be worse if possible. Don't have something like a telephone number from ten years ago? Don't bother adding that job to your job history. Even with a computer some of that is ridiculous. I've worked at several companies that have gone out of business. Also having been in the army, if I gave the phone number of my last unit that would have zero bearing today, cause it's been so long that anyone who was in with me would be retired, not just transferred, but retired!
So many frustrations, and so much feeling that there is no way to go forward.

I picked up a job application today, or rather read the job description for one and self-disqualified. Then again, I'm slow, stupid and a lousy employee apparently.
That may seem over the top, yet I can't seem to keep work, not even stupid stupid stuff that ought to be dead easy. Too slow. Then most employers just don't accept the words, 'if I go any faster there will be an accident.' No, NO! But when there is an accident? 'You weren't paying attention.'
I don't think it was me not paying attention. I issued the warning. I was pushed, go faster or lose the job. Lost anyway... too much broken shit..
So too slow... Too old. NOT Qualified. Don't have that license, certificate, etc.
As far as writing... Again, too slow, too few readers... Not writing what the audience wants apparently. Who would pay me a dollar a month to read my paltry output?
Then too I worry about cyber stalkers. Seriously, some of the fan mail I got from a couple of my stories was disturbing!

I'm reading a newly started story: https://storiesonline.net/s/18847/the-war-of-the-crystals this story by rlfj and Robber Baron is a neat little romp so far, but then with rlfj as one of the authors, I expect nothing less than excellence in the writing. But a good story is more than just technical expertise, and there again rlfj is a master storyteller. I guess that what I'm saying is give the story a read, as even just what is posted now is well worth your time!

First, I still occasionally pull up Helluva and poke at it to see if I can find a way to make an end to the mess I created there. No promises, but it has grown a prologue, which I'll have to contact the website about posting, when I'm ready...
Next, the ugly story. Yes Cal/Denae has a hold of my imagination, so there will probably be some more flash stories in that series.
Beyond that?
Outpost!: I have at least one more episode of Outpost! started. Again no promises, but maybe I'll get it finished and posted.
I've also started (with Zen Master giving me advice) a story on the origins of the CSO in the Swarm cycle Universe.
I also started a story I've titled The Gordian Knot in that universe... Sorry, no dogs in this one, just good old-fashioned incest.
Any other dog stories?
One I occasionally pull out is a companion to On Dog Creek. It is mostly told from the perspective of the E-Dog that is in the story.
Bitch In Time stories are part of something larger that I am trying to flesh out enough to go commercial with. No doubt if I concentrated on it that would help!
I have another that gives back story in that universe, but it isn't much more than sketches for a lost patrol that I'm calling Three Dog Night.
I think that is most everything, except maybe something will hit in a flash that better fits the Family Fuck poems...