Monday fails and other fun tales

A few things that Fail on this Monday:

*Being Monday fails. I’m tired and grouchy, rawr!

*Switzerland fails. That Polansky guy is a creep and needs to go to jail. I don’t care what anyone else thinks or that the victim is like "I don’t care anymore"… he ran away from his sentence and has gotten away with something he admitted to doing that is so terrible it makes me see red. And Switzerland is a jerk for letting him go. Jerky ass Switzerland!

*Mel Gibson also fails. The radio show I listen to is playing some tapes of him talking to his girlfriend and he is a giant jerk. I knew he was terrible before, but this just makes him worse to me. He needs to just go away somewhere. I don’t think I could ever watch another movie with him in it again. Hypocrite jerk asshole fucker. ugh.

OK, so… as I wrote yesterday, I got rejected from the short story anthology. THANK YOU ALL for being encouraging and awesome about it all. I know that rejection is part of this process. I’m sure by the time it’s all said and done I’ll either have a really thick skin or permanent tear stains down my face. LOL.

I’m not giving up!!! It was the first time I ever did anything like that, so it stands to reason it wouldn’t have worked out for me. I guess just the length of time it took for them to get back to me lulled me into thinking positive thoughts. I really did think they’d have told me quicker if they didn’t want it so I could either fix it or write something new. Like… give me a chance yo!

Oh well, it’s over. I’m fine.

I DID spend some time moping yesterday. I couldn’t focus on anything really, so moping was the only option. It was like a punch to the gut.

But we all get over those quickly, ya know?

I am now going to take that short story and instead of shaving off words, I’m going to add words. I’m going to turn it into a much longer and better detailed look into that world and hopefully it will one day be published as a stand alone book instead of snippet in an anthology. A majority of the feedback I got was "I want to know more!"… so your wish is my command.

However, my plate is full right now.

I’m re-writing / editing Trigger. That probably won’t take that long. I should be able to finish it in about a month. I will be simultaneously rewriting / editing Petit Noir and Blue Blue Dress. As far as the mailing list goes, I’ll send out Petit Noir first and then BBD, but both of those should start going out before the end of the year. I thik Trigger will go out for the rest of July and part of August. Petit Noir will start next week or so and go through August and BBD will start in September. Identity will go out in September as well. I need a lot more content in that one before I can start sending it out so there won’t be huge gaps.

Around November I hope to start in on something new. I wish the rules for Nano would allow me to work on a previous started work, cuz then I could work on the time travel or urban fantasy type stories. But alas, it does not. HOWEVER, I have some other stories I want to work on, so I’ll probably start those. I will probably take a hiatus in December and pick back up in January.

But I might not be able to write much… why?

I have picked two wedding dates: March 13 or April 24th.

I’m leaning towards the April date, simply because it gives me more time to plan and that is Baboo and I’s actual "get together" anniversary.

So the writing might slow down in Feb, March, and April. I will then pick it all back up in May.

Now, as far as publishing, as soon as Trigger is complete I’m going to try and send that to some publishers. If rejection happens over and over, I may end up trying to self publish. I really only have one potential in mind and I hope they are still open for submissions when I do it. I’m not sure if I want to send anything else to Permuted unless it is zombie related.

Anyway, I’m basically writing all this for my own benefit. I’ve started writing out chapter outlines and crap, something I never really did before. I find that it really helps me to stay focused, so… now it’s bleeding into everything.

I have to make phone calls later.

Some are for work, but I’m also going to call the newspaper to see if I can send in my application to publish the summons for my divorce via fax. If I can I’ll try to send it all in tomorrow. If not, then I’ll be going downtown on Wednesday… along with going to the pound and seeing if the German Shepherd is still there, shopping for Jons birthday present and cake, and possibly getting tires put on my car.

that morning is going to suck.

lol

Anyhow, I’m off to take care of work related things and be a good employee. I will try to read and note as much as possible today, but I might be distracted with the big manual update project, phone calls, writing about zombies and vampires, and generally being tired.

I hope everyone has a great Monday! *muah!*

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