Internet Time and Sanity

I have wasted 2 hours thinking that it it would be easier and quicker to contact people by email than snail mail but not only has it taken me longer it has driven me to the edge of madness. I suppose it is cheaper. No stamps. So I expect I shall persevere.  And why can't I send this to facebook like I could yesterday?

Gardening not Writing

So I have managed the gardening but at the expense of the writing. Next aim is to balance gardening and writing. People ask what do you do all day? Aren't you lonely? I need another life to fit in all the things I want to achieve. How can anyone ever be bored? Tired yes. Often more often as the years go by but bored? Never. And gardening is rejuvenating especially in the spring. Seeing the flowers busting open and the new buds forming is sheer joy.

Life

'Life is what happens when you are planning other things'
How true. Will I ever learn to keep my head down, learn to say no and stop organising events and setting up groups? What's wrong with me? I keep saying that I just want to garden and write. But saying it doesn't make it happen. What can I do?

Writing Group

The writing group is going to work, I think, but it will be very small. I am losing interest in organising things. Why do I choose to be the organiser? I just want to be a member these days. But what do you do if there isn't a group in existance? Or maybe I am just a control freak.

Comp entry

I sent Taking care of the Elderly to Writers' forum and paid for a crit. which was helpful.  I shall take the advice and improve the story and try again. Why not?

Writing Comps

Today I worked out that Writers' Forum publish about 3x12=36 short stories a year. That means that they probably reject thousands. I wonder how many stories they get each month. Let's say out of the 70,000 readers of the magazine 5 per cent enter each month. So what is 5 per cent of  70,000. Is it 3,500? That is an awful lot of losers. Because if you don't get accepted you assume that your story is not good enough to be printed. This is quite depressing. Even if only one per cent of the 70,000 readers enter that is 700! So instead of thinking that one’s story is a failure it only means the following. In the opinion of Writers’ Forum judges there are three stories out of 700 that are maybe better than yours.