Friday Friday FRIDAY....

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I am so happy it is Friday! Great week at work but the reality is, my new job is extremely busy. We have fun though, I get along great with my boss, and all that good stuff. It is a true bummer I come home so mentally drained though - I do a heck of a lot of typing every day. A LOT. Dictation tapes - Jim the Boss loves them. Karen, his wife and probate attorney, has discovered (thanks Jim) that I am hellaciously-fast, so she keeps bringing me documents to retype for her. Promissory notes, guaranty documents, etc. Probate stuff, banking stuff, BORING STUFF. Lotsa typing. So I come home - and don't wanna do more. And, I get really sore, arms especially. Shoulder even. :( Whine.

But it is the weekend!

Oh sadness, bummer and woe - Carina passed on both my ms and the sci fi. But, the ms already has a home, and I am considering what to do with the sci fi. My belief is I need to expand the story and take it the route that came after me, oh, you know, about two days after I sent it in. Or was it two hours? LOL. Whatever, a friend who reads a lot of sci fi is eyeballing it this weekend for me, and hopefully I'll have a good game plan for its future. I had a good rejection as far as those go, though a rejection is a rejection, yes?

The dogs and I have major plans this weekend! To be at home! LOL. Am still getting things sorted, believe it or not, after being off work for so long, but things are settling in.

Good grief I have nothing else to say! I need a new hobby or something. My life is just too dull!

Comments

[withprettystars.livejournal.com]

i can related 100 per cent to the whole "i spend my whole work day at a computer and therefore do not have the energy to spend time when i get home behind a screen" thing. as much as i love my job*, i've found it very difficult to come home and write when i spend my whole day writing at work (heh. hence the whole not updating lj in about six months and only having 100 pages of a project completed in a year. BAD.) a year and a half into the job and i still haven't found a way to balance it all so let me know if you figure it out, hey?

* most days. somedays producing three stories in eight hours is the worst.

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I keep track of how much typing I do at work and most days when my boss has a lot going on, like yesterday, I average around 5k. Not my words though!! It takes a toll! He is great at dictation and I love our cases, none of it is dull or monotonous and that is part of the problem. It is high energy and wow, if I was totally focused on just work, I'd be ecstatic. But like today, spending all day at home, just doing laundry... I WANT to write but have yet to get started. Sucks yeah? At least I have my ms turned in! And manage to keep the house straight? And PAY MY BILLS? LOL. Meeep.

[withprettystars.livejournal.com]

that's me on my days off lately. in my head i'm like OKAY! LET'S SIT DOWN AND WORK ON WHAT WILL ULTIMATELY BE A SHITTY FIRST DRAFT BUT HEY IT'S A DRAFT....then all of a sudden laundry/dishes/general cleaning/baking yummy things/watching how i met your mother/reading seem very appealing.

if i write three stories a day at work, i'm probably average 45 ish inches a day. 15 inches is about 600 words. but while all the words are mine, it's stuff i HAVE to do. sometimes i get lucky - earlier this month i was given a couple weeks to work on a three part series about inclusive education, something i've been wanting to do since ummmm...JANUARY. but other times, it's like 'go to this place and write about this event.' while seeing your byline and words on the front page (which happens a lot for me since i work at such a small publication), it's still not exactly what i want to be doing.

but paying the bills is important. computers don't power themselves, right?

[paragraphs.livejournal.com]

No they don't. Sigh. I'm writing another post - I'm going to do an experiment based on an experiment author Holly Black is doing. Going to see if it helps any.

[withprettystars.livejournal.com]

ooh, curious.
(also woo! i love when people don't suck at lj as much as i do so there's stuff to read on my flist. my problem right now? i've put off updating for SO long i have a lot to write about...and it's making it easier to put off doing. on the plus side? managed to get a few thousand words out today. hopefully the momentum will continue when i get home!)