"Leave me out with the waste. This is not what I do."

Sep 23, 2013 13:50

There was a time I could write entries about days I didn't write. I can't seem to do that anymore. Yesterday was an atrocity. That I'm still among the living is a surprise ( Read more... )

outside, editing, copyeditors, red delicious, shut in, exhaustion, cherry bomb, not writing, deadlines, futureshock, publishing crap, pink delicious, antisocial me

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shanejayell September 23 2013, 18:13:44 UTC
I'm kinda surprised your editor didn't KNOW that. *shrug* And just printing out the doc in b & w seems passive aggressive to me.

(Admittedly I can be a jerk, so yeah.)

Good luck with it.

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greygirlbeast September 23 2013, 18:21:21 UTC

I'm kinda surprised your editor didn't KNOW that. *shrug* And just printing out the doc in b & w seems passive aggressive to me.

I think it's more a matter of "the New Normal" and me being unable to keep pace with the times. Unable and not interested.

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greygirlbeast September 23 2013, 18:41:09 UTC

If the second most widespread misconception about you is that you don't want to be an outsider, what's the first misconception?

That I write horror.

Third, that I enjoy writing.

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kambriel September 24 2013, 03:17:54 UTC
That I'm still among the living is a surprise.

I'm glad you're still here and admire the fortitude (and sometimes luck or the universe's sense of "humour") it takes to be able to ~be~ here.
I've had many days like that myself, and know how hard it can be to remain open to possibilities whilst being fully aware that those possibilities contain elements both uplifting, and harsh.

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sovay September 24 2013, 06:19:31 UTC
And this whole mess isn't going to save anyone time, as I'm still going to be making a lot of corrections of my own to this copy, which someone, somewhere, will have to attend to once this is returned.

Can I help with any of this morass?

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greygirlbeast September 24 2013, 14:26:03 UTC

Nah. I'll plow throw it,

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