February 26, 1998
very early ... no, don't ask
 Still plugging away at the gangster thing. Have I made it clear enough that I don't do humor? :) Who was it that said "Dying is easy; humor is hard"? I really don't remember, but whoever it was grossly underestimated the situation. In all actuality, what I may really be up against is a situation where I'm not sure how to calibrate my yardstick. You know what I mean? I don't do humor often, so I'm not sure what I write is funny. Insecurity drives me to question myself, hence judging my work more harsly than it deserves. Either that or it's terrible [g]. Anyway, it's been a very quiet week on the rejection front. In otherwords, there hasn't been any so far. Actually, February has been pretty darned quiet overall. Perhaps this is a good thing. Regardless, I guess I should stop tinkering here and get to work on this manuscript . . . ... so I guess I will!   Late breaking update: 5:42 a.m. After all that wallowing in the muck earlier this morning. I've struck what I think is paydirt. I picked up on an "old" idea and added a new layer of thought. Suddenly the words flowed so fast I couldn't hardly write them down quick enough. And it's almost, dare I say, funny? Well . . . so far I think so. Still have a couple thousand words to finish, but I know exactly where its going, and I can feel the pacing the thing needs, etc., etc. I definitely feel better about this one than I did earlier.  Daily Persistence is © Ron Collins |
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"I'm distressed by sloppy thinking. I'm distressed by especially the proliferation of sloppy thinking which confuses valid ideas with invalid ones." Alan Sokal from Scientific American, March 1998 |
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