I just wish I could get paid my .0000003 or whatever without having to go thru the Herculean stress in which I am currently embroiled. I can't help thinking: would everybody involved continue to treat me so indifferently if my initials were JKR?
If I were Biggles I would not be stressed. I would just enjoy the adventure. (I think part of my problem is that I see myself as BIGGLES, not as the AUTHOR of Biggles.)
you are right, of course, about the mean-spirited critiques. But there is a rather enormous spoiler in almost every review of my latest book.
I suspect I get paid rather well for what I do, considering, and having nothing to compare it to; only it is doled out in such parsimonious increments, with so many years between them, that the thrill is kind of lost on me. Short story writing is not as lucrative, but as far as instant gratification goes it is MUCH more satisfying!
I'm just really grateful my husband has a good enough job that he can handle the bills. The big $600 so far this year doesn't even cover my con attendance and subscriptions. Oh, well.
When I get that nice $25 check I'm waiting for, thought, I'll think of you. ;o)
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Date: 2007-08-01 05:36 pm (UTC)(or Algy and Ginger, for that matter.)
Someone quoted Wilde a few moths ago....this is a paraphrase...
"Every time one of my friend's succeeds, I die a little."
I think it's just human nature, more than anything else. ;o)
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Date: 2007-08-01 06:53 pm (UTC)I just wish I could get paid my .0000003 or whatever without having to go thru the Herculean stress in which I am currently embroiled. I can't help thinking: would everybody involved continue to treat me so indifferently if my initials were JKR?
If I were Biggles I would not be stressed. I would just enjoy the adventure. (I think part of my problem is that I see myself as BIGGLES, not as the AUTHOR of Biggles.)
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Date: 2007-08-01 07:02 pm (UTC)No one is particualry impressed by JKC, so I don't think a name change would help. (I certainly hope it's more money than that, though.)
On the bright side, no one has posted tons of spoilers and really mean-spirited critiques of your latest book....all right, I'm grasping at straws.
Try to enjoy the adventure anyway. ;o)
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Date: 2007-08-01 08:28 pm (UTC)I suspect I get paid rather well for what I do, considering, and having nothing to compare it to; only it is doled out in such parsimonious increments, with so many years between them, that the thrill is kind of lost on me. Short story writing is not as lucrative, but as far as instant gratification goes it is MUCH more satisfying!
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Date: 2007-08-01 08:48 pm (UTC)When I get that nice $25 check I'm waiting for, thought, I'll think of you. ;o)
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