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Monday, March 05, 2007
Rant-tastic
Since it's Monday, I know you expect me to have something to bitch about. I won't disappoint you two weeks in a row, though I really should be writing. This one will be quick and to the point.
Hello, foolish authors. Why do you waste time messing with readers, starting little kitty fights on the Internet? Why do you spend valuable writing time whinging over bad reviews? Do you not understand that if you spent more time working on your craft and less time crying because you're not famous, you might get somewhere?
Yes, because you're an author people get to take shots at your work, your life and sometimes your dog (but hopefully not literally). Put up with it. If you go around starting fights with people, you will get a rep and not a good one. So please, for the love of all gods and sacred things, stop acting like such pussies. You have them, you don't need to be them. Get a bitching buddy, vent in e-mails and let this crazy shit go. You have books to write.
Would you storm into your boss's office at General Electric and call him a doody-head because he didn't like your energy saver proposal for a kitchen stove? I thought not.
I cannot say this enough -- be professional.
Hello, foolish authors. Why do you waste time messing with readers, starting little kitty fights on the Internet? Why do you spend valuable writing time whinging over bad reviews? Do you not understand that if you spent more time working on your craft and less time crying because you're not famous, you might get somewhere?
Yes, because you're an author people get to take shots at your work, your life and sometimes your dog (but hopefully not literally). Put up with it. If you go around starting fights with people, you will get a rep and not a good one. So please, for the love of all gods and sacred things, stop acting like such pussies. You have them, you don't need to be them. Get a bitching buddy, vent in e-mails and let this crazy shit go. You have books to write.
Would you storm into your boss's office at General Electric and call him a doody-head because he didn't like your energy saver proposal for a kitchen stove? I thought not.
I cannot say this enough -- be professional.
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Oh, I'm married to him as well. And I usually think of myself as the boss. Maybe he does all the actual work, but he'd be lost without me to tell him where to go...literally, hmm, maybe figuratively too.
Be proffessional. Sad this even needs to be said, Annie, but unfortunately 'common sense' and 'common courtesy' have become misnomers for a great many people.
Damn. Damn. Damn. I miss all the fun.
*sniffles* Obvious since you read my blog you know I freakin' needed that. I hate hate hate it when I think someone is my friend, and I confide in them, either personally, or with stories that are still not in a final phase and then they turn around and try to use that to ruin my career.
There are two things writers work very hard at, orginality and professionalism. It is never a clean fight once one side brings those sorts of things into question.
Bollocks to that. Yes, you love your book, yes, it's deeply personal, but it's also YOUR JOB. And if you don't have the testicular fortitude to put your work out there, then don't. Quite simple really. Scribble away in little girlie notebooks and maybe you'll be famous after you're dead.
Hi QB and welcome! There's more than one kerfluffle going on, and I'm not linking anybody who behaves badly.
Wow, Michele, I'm sorry you're going through a rough patch. :(