Tonight I wrote a story that didn't make me cry. What I did was convert my basketball comedy routine into a short story. It worked better than expected. What I realized upon reading it was that the narration of this story is MUCH better than previous stories. I realized that I haven't been treating the narrator in my stories as a character. I've given them no enthusiasm for what they were saying. While I love learning things about improving my writing, once again I see how far I have to go as a writer.
Things are changing in my life. That's good, but right now I'm feeling more than a bit over-whelmed. However this week some odd coincidences have given me encouragement. I've started meeting writers. It turns out that one of my neighbors is a poet, and today at a yard sale I met a travel and romace writer. We talked for a while about rejection letters and making a name for yourself. This has made me feel less alone in the world.
This has been a bad week. I let all the stress get to me. Work, writing, the house, the RV, the family all came crashing down around me. Unfortunately I didn't realize that it was stress until Friday. I thought my diabetes was kicking in full tilt. I'd never had these symptoms froms stress before. I spent the weekend trying to unwind. I was mostly successful. I even managed to write some interesting stuff Saturday night. I have a week of work and then some vacation time. I just have to remember this week at work that no matter what happens, no little children will die.
The worst part of all this has been the re-emergence of my temper. I've had a few outbursts. I hate being out of control of my emotions. Again though, I've been able to pull it all back a bit. I have to remember to divert my anger.
Just got back from a week on the road. Good stuff and bad stuff. I'll put the whole story in the RV section soon.
Weird stuff. I got two rejection letters from the same Literary Journal for the same story. They realy don't want this story!
Went to the Doctor's office yesterday. Not my regular doctor so I wimped out talking about all the stuff that's wrong with me. We did cover the major medical stuff so that's a start.