Writer's Block: Rabbit Rabbit!
Jun. 2nd, 2009 07:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Yeah...yesterday's question, obviously. But today's question is kind of stupid (and for the record, I have both a landline and a cell).
If I could have one wish come true this month - no brainer - I would get a really good long-term writing contract that would give us a little more security and get me out of this current situation. Or in general, I can launch my freelance career successfully again and have multiple projects to work on, because that makes things a lot more interesting. And I can make the kind of money that freelancers make on average (which is twice what I was making at Paychex).
It takes awhile though. I know it won't happen in a month.
But things ARE happening. My Twitter following is growing. Normally, I wouldn't read anything into that, but I have some very useful people following me. Writers, photographers, and people affiliated with TV shows and print publications...people who could potentially provide leads. YAY for networking! So I'll keep riding it and see where it takes me. I had my doubts about Twitter and its usefulness. But now I definitely see its potential.
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It's windy today, and our temperature gauge outside appears to be out of order at the moment, so I have no idea what the temperature is outside. It's not raining, at least. But I would like to know if there is the potential for spending some time outdoors, plus I am supposed to go enjoy Kathy's hot tub today, and I don't want to do that if I'm going to get out and freeze my butt off.
But I have other stuff to do first. A bit of cleaning around the house. More freelance gig searches. Getting Reece some exercise.
The cleaning is going to be difficult. I was playing with Reece outside last night after dinner and was trying to extract a ball from her teeth and in the process of that, extracted a rather sizeable chunk of skin off the pad of my left index finger. It hurt like hell (all those nerve-endings there, you know). It bled even more. And I have to keep it bandaged. It makes doing routine tasks a bit tricky. Even getting that finger wet causes searing pain on the tip of my finger. The gross part was when I went back outside to clean up after dinner and picked Reece's ball up off the grass and actually saw my missing chunk of skin sticking to it. Ewwwwww.
Reece felt bad because she thought she hurt Mommy (given that we were playing one minute and then I was screaming in a mixture of pain and surprise the next), but this one was totally my fault. She immediately followed me inside after it happened and watched me clean and bandage my wound, with this look of guilt and shame on her face the whole time. I had to reassure her that I wasn't mad at her.
She's a good pup, she is.
Anyway, I guess I better get started on something constructive.
Yeah...yesterday's question, obviously. But today's question is kind of stupid (and for the record, I have both a landline and a cell).
If I could have one wish come true this month - no brainer - I would get a really good long-term writing contract that would give us a little more security and get me out of this current situation. Or in general, I can launch my freelance career successfully again and have multiple projects to work on, because that makes things a lot more interesting. And I can make the kind of money that freelancers make on average (which is twice what I was making at Paychex).
It takes awhile though. I know it won't happen in a month.
But things ARE happening. My Twitter following is growing. Normally, I wouldn't read anything into that, but I have some very useful people following me. Writers, photographers, and people affiliated with TV shows and print publications...people who could potentially provide leads. YAY for networking! So I'll keep riding it and see where it takes me. I had my doubts about Twitter and its usefulness. But now I definitely see its potential.
It's windy today, and our temperature gauge outside appears to be out of order at the moment, so I have no idea what the temperature is outside. It's not raining, at least. But I would like to know if there is the potential for spending some time outdoors, plus I am supposed to go enjoy Kathy's hot tub today, and I don't want to do that if I'm going to get out and freeze my butt off.
But I have other stuff to do first. A bit of cleaning around the house. More freelance gig searches. Getting Reece some exercise.
The cleaning is going to be difficult. I was playing with Reece outside last night after dinner and was trying to extract a ball from her teeth and in the process of that, extracted a rather sizeable chunk of skin off the pad of my left index finger. It hurt like hell (all those nerve-endings there, you know). It bled even more. And I have to keep it bandaged. It makes doing routine tasks a bit tricky. Even getting that finger wet causes searing pain on the tip of my finger. The gross part was when I went back outside to clean up after dinner and picked Reece's ball up off the grass and actually saw my missing chunk of skin sticking to it. Ewwwwww.
Reece felt bad because she thought she hurt Mommy (given that we were playing one minute and then I was screaming in a mixture of pain and surprise the next), but this one was totally my fault. She immediately followed me inside after it happened and watched me clean and bandage my wound, with this look of guilt and shame on her face the whole time. I had to reassure her that I wasn't mad at her.
She's a good pup, she is.
Anyway, I guess I better get started on something constructive.