Dreadful Typewriter

I have found the perfect description for my blog. (It's from Francis Bacon via Aristotle.) So which am I? It depends on how soon I get my coffee.

OK that first was kind of a test post. I guess I'll blog here for a while, until I get tired of it. Blogger has always been an easy site to use, it was the second site I ever blogged on (the first was Livejournal). I like Wordpress, but right now it's too busy for me to deal with. So what will I talk about here? Um, stuff. Yeah.

So there's been this "show us your rejections" thing going around Twitter and I think it kicked off some people to decide to give up writing and I saw a response where some person said it was "freeing" to just give up on writing novels and write for money and I thought... ...wait ...that's not helping. I mean yeah having your work rejected is depressing to your creative sense but wanting to make money is part of that and if you show up and say "well I just turned off my brain and wrote for money and it feels so much better!" how do you think that makes someone who is *definitely* not making any money off their rejected story or novel feel? God some people are dumb. I'm not tired of Twitter, but I think I need to get away from it more. I decided to try blogging again. I don't have any particular big ideas I have a burning need to talk about, but why not. Also I need to seriously work on my fiction so there is that. Of course, my fing...