I just won’t admit it. I’ve been reminded of the story of the old Yankee sitting outside the grocery store in a small town in Vermont. A young New Yorker, up to visit the area, asked, “You lived here all your life?”
The Yankee kept whittling away at the stick of wood he was working on and without looking up said, “Not yit.”
And what brought me into this frame of mind?
I finally followed the link in the yellow banner at the top of your SOL screen. I always check out as many of the nominees for Clitorides Awards as I can and then vote for my favorites. (No, not always my own. There are some fine authors at SOL.) I thank you for the nominations of Team Manager SWISH!, Pussy Pirates, and The Assassin.
What caught my attention was my nomination for the Lifetime Achievement Award. I look at that list and see some of the finest authors SOL has produced.
And me.
I’ve been posting on SOL for ten plus years now. I have 52 stories up for 28,305KB of stuff to read. According to the site, I’ve been downloaded 7,318,913 times. If I had a penny for every download… Well, I didn’t come here to get rich. I came here to share my stories with people I thought would appreciate them.
But “Lifetime Achievement”?
Not yit.
My next story is already edited and ready to start posting when the current Bob’s Memoir finishes. I’m working on the fourth book in the Team Manager series and am about three-quarters of the way through that one. I have two stories begun that have been set aside while I finished others, and a drawer full of ideas for more stories. If I have anything to say about it, the lifetime ain’t over yet.
Still, I suppose it would be nice to have an award like that now rather than posthumously.
Happy Spring!