... rejection from Amazing ...
March 10, 1999
5:42 a.m.
Life is like a transmission. No matter what gear is engaged, the damned thing just keeps going around and around. It snowed Monday night. Hard. We got four inches of really ugly stuff--the thick, sloggy slush that makes driving sound like you're playing one of those skiing games at the arcade. Swoosh. Not that it was hard to drive through it or anything. Actually, the roads seemed pretty passable. But it's March, folks. It's supposed to be cold and rainy in March, not cold and snowy. [ Personal aside to the librarian among us: Elsie, do you know what the average snowfall is in Indianapolis or Louisville in March? -- Louisville is probably the better barometer]. Anyway, I piddled with the site yesterday morning (my favorite writing avoidance pastime). Then I went into work and spent most of the rest of the day teaching myself more about C++. I've programmed in earlier languages, Fortran, BASIC, and Pascal. And I even pretended to code C without really doing much with it. But it's been a couple years since I really did any coding. So I spent most of the day immersing myself in how to use pointers and references, and how to tell the difference. Fascinating stuff, of course. Then last might I massaged the site a little. And, of course, fought another losing battle with my e-mail. I swear to God my In-Box isn't satisfied unless I have at least 50 items waiting for me. This morning, I'm working on fleshing out an outline for a new story--I'm working it almost in pseudo-code form, you know, an outline with snippets of dialog, or scene description as it comes to me. I can't say I've really ever written this way before, but it feels good so far. So, we'll see how it goes. When I get to work, I'll dig deeper into C++ for the morning, then spend all afternoon in meetings. I still owe critiques. I'm still playing with the Analog contract -- no major problems there, but just trying to understand the details of what I'm doing. The Nebula ballot just arrived. And Locus, and Analog, and Asimov's. I need to read something Stephen Baxter wrote on Alien Landscapes. What gear is this thing in, anyway?   Guess I should just quit whining and get to work, eh? Have a great day, okay?  Daily Persistence is © Ron Collins |
|
"Clear your desk of pressing business matters." yesterday's Daily Horoscope desk calendar |
BACK TO 
|