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Pete, please tell me you've got off that conference call. PLEASE.
I'm feeling much better today, thanks for asking! I took some medicine to clear out my sinuses so the headache is gone and I got a really good night's sleep because my cough is almost completely gone too.Hope you're feeling better today!
Ikr? I'm really careful about having pictures of me on the internet too, and then I only post them if there's a specific reason and a decent amount of other people are doing it at the same time for the same reason so I'm not standing out. Like, one time there was a big Tolkien read-along on this one site and the participants could introduce themselves if they wanted to by posting a pic of themselves with the book and saying if they've read it before, etc. I only posted my intro after several other people had posted theirs but even then I strategically covered half my face with the book. I also make sure I never give out any personally identifying information at any time.Also, our podcast went live on itunes and I am deeply mortified because it means my picture is on itunes. And I hate having pictures of me on the internet where anyone can see them. Twenty years on the internet has taught me that's a bad, bad idea.
Good luck!Tonight is my last overnight shift! There's no truck, so things will be a lot more relaxing and my boss will be the one in charge, so double awesome there. The only downside to returning to my normal shift is not being able to see him as much, especially since he's pretty sure he's staying overnight. This, however, means there's another leadership position opening up in the backroom for mornings, and I'm considering applying for it. Rumor has it, there's another person in the running, but why not give it a chance? I'm in need of a change and a chance at some personal improvement.
Got to bed about 8am in the end. I get to do it all over again tonight too
Has anyone ever been in a similar position? I'm going down the new path to see where it takes me because it's more productive, but there's still that war inside over the old path.
Part of me feels like making such a turn in a different direction after having invested so much time and effort in the other direction is a red flag that I'm doing something wrong. That I should stay on track, dammit.
I've heard some pretty well-known authors talk about being in that position of being stuck...Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn), Nicolas Sparks (The Notebook), etc. Many of them seem to feel that when you keep getting stuck on something no matter how many times you rewrite it, that may be the story's way of telling you it doesn't want to go in that direction. In that case, you probably will need to take a chance and try something different even if it means major changes. It *is* scary, and it may mean more work, but if it makes the story better it can worth it, apparently.
Just my two cents.
I feel that way too, but I think, though, it's really the opposite -- that you've progressed enough in your writing skills & objectivity to know when you need to back up and take a different path. Pretty sure that's both one of the more difficult, and one of the necessary, lessons all writers need to go through.
Or at least that's what I tell myself too, because I'm about to try to gut and completely rewrite my very first novel, and it's incredibly daunting and difficult to break away from what used to be there enough to not just repeat the same mistakes that doomed it in the first place.
Rewrites are hard. It's not just editing, tightening up the writing, adding and deleting. It's going down to the foundation and shaking the story to its core. You have to be savvy enough to know what to keep and what to let go. So hard! But in the end, worth it.
Good luck!
@LadyV - Go on and give it a try.
Good luck with the maybe-promotion, LadyV.
Nooooooooooo!!!
The WIP is something I originally wrote when I was 16, but when I finally dusted the thing off 15 years later I realized that it was going to start from the ground up again. And the characters have changed and the plot has simplified and it got darker, and yet sometimes I find myself trying to shoehorn scenes from the original into it and it ends of not working because it's not the same story it used to be. Which is at once exciting but also intimidating, because it means I don't know what's coming next.
Night shift is officially over!!! .
Aw, look a plot bunny. Isn't it cute? Aw, look. It's doing that thing with the big eyes.
What? You want to come home with me?
I don't need another plot bunny. I've got at least three at the moment. There's just no room for you.
Aw, but you're only small, and sooooo cute.
Ok then, but you have to play nice now.
Why is it, when you have a week's leave, that list of Things to Do has barely been dented by the end? Back to the day job tomorrow.
...I managed to get someone's beta done. And it was awesome. That person has mail.