Sunday, May 07, 2006
I almost let the blog go tonight even though it's high time I posted again. I'm tired, the clock won't quit ticking to doom (when I have to go to bed because there's work again tomorrow), and I really don't have anything to say.
Which hasn't stopped in the past, hasn't it?
I find myself really down on my job right now and that leads me, as ever, to thoughts of how great it would be to finally get to write for a living. Continuing on this thought train, I start to think about how many people hate their job (I don't hate mine, by the way, even though I am frustrated with it right now). Think about that for a moment: the thousands (heck this is the world wide web so millions) of people who go to work in a job they hate. Their job is such a major facet of life, one that they have until they're, at least, in their fifties if they're the average American. And they hate every minute of it. They count down the days until Friday and pine away the weekend minutes dreading Monday. They're stuck in a surreal rendition of Loverboy's "Working for the Weekend". It's not easy to get a good job in many places or even to get a job. For so many people, it's not like they can just go "I think I'll try something new". Or maybe they can but contemplating such a jump into the unknown makes them quake. I know it makes me nervous.
The problem: going to work, day after day, hating every minute of it. Wasting your life in a pursuit you could care less about.
The answer? If you know, post it. I haven't got a clue.
These are some depressing thoughts. I think I'll get back to writing and submitting.
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Issue #4 of Off the Grid is written and I've sent it to Roger for review. I've gotten issue #5 plotted and will start it tomorrow. It's going to be a hard one as it needs to sum up the series without being too wordy or didactic.
I've gotten the finished pages for Magic Bullet and now it's time to put together the submission packet. I think it's turned out really well. I'll try to post the first page here for my non-existent readers to peruse. ;)
Which hasn't stopped in the past, hasn't it?
I find myself really down on my job right now and that leads me, as ever, to thoughts of how great it would be to finally get to write for a living. Continuing on this thought train, I start to think about how many people hate their job (I don't hate mine, by the way, even though I am frustrated with it right now). Think about that for a moment: the thousands (heck this is the world wide web so millions) of people who go to work in a job they hate. Their job is such a major facet of life, one that they have until they're, at least, in their fifties if they're the average American. And they hate every minute of it. They count down the days until Friday and pine away the weekend minutes dreading Monday. They're stuck in a surreal rendition of Loverboy's "Working for the Weekend". It's not easy to get a good job in many places or even to get a job. For so many people, it's not like they can just go "I think I'll try something new". Or maybe they can but contemplating such a jump into the unknown makes them quake. I know it makes me nervous.
The problem: going to work, day after day, hating every minute of it. Wasting your life in a pursuit you could care less about.
The answer? If you know, post it. I haven't got a clue.
These are some depressing thoughts. I think I'll get back to writing and submitting.
___________________________
Issue #4 of Off the Grid is written and I've sent it to Roger for review. I've gotten issue #5 plotted and will start it tomorrow. It's going to be a hard one as it needs to sum up the series without being too wordy or didactic.
I've gotten the finished pages for Magic Bullet and now it's time to put together the submission packet. I think it's turned out really well. I'll try to post the first page here for my non-existent readers to peruse. ;)
# posted by Crisman @ 7:26 PM 
