*sigh*

[partly]

Still not feeling good. And now Myr has the same thing. Flu. Hate it.

And there's really no one around to talk to. 'course I'd probably not talk anyway, but, hey, I miss the opportunity.

Someone once gave me the advice of "say what you think" but I find when I do that most people perfer not to hear what I have to say. Not that I've said much of anything around here lately. But I seem to be good at ticking people off in general, both in the real world in in various on-line forms.

It's a gift.

I think I need to write. Wil is working on this wonderful challenge "Create a comic in 7 days" and he's doing a great job of it despite the fact that with both Myr and I sick there are a few more things for him to do around the house.

November is "NaNoWriMo" or National Novel Writing Month. I signed up last year, but ended up not woking on it. I have this idea for a Fanstasy story and I'm in the middle of this stupid A-Team story that just doesn't seem to want to get finished.

I'm good at starting things, mind you. It's finshing them that I have problems with. Maybe better that way. Who knows what chaos I'd set in motion with a whole novel/novella written from my POV.

Not sure if I like journaling. Makes me pensive and brings out an insecurity that I generally don't acknowledge.

Or... I may just be tired and sick. Hard to tell.

Comments

[finabair.livejournal.com]

One NEVER feels secure when one is sick. It's a fact of life.

'course, sometimes journalling makes us wonder if we're revealing too much. It feels almost dangerous sometimes. Most of the time I like that, because it prevents me getting too lazy about my attitudes. But sometimes, in my more insecure moments, I *really* dislike it.

As for ticking people off, maybe folks need more of a blow to the head about 'this is a rant-by-example'. It is hard to say what someone not as familiar with your fic-style will make of something like that.

Maybe more emoticons? ;-)

But you're right, you should write. *beam*

[partly.livejournal.com]

Feeling better. Yay!
Myr is feeling better. Yay!
Writing tonight. Yay!

As it turns out the "rant-by-example" is just a minor blip on the annoyance radar. And one that could be the most easily understood. In that piece it could easily be the tone that ticked people off rather than the opinion itself. It's other places where it is stated "Share your opinion" and they really only mean "Share your opinion if it is the exact same opinion that we have". Or people who say "Please give an honest critique" and they really mean "Only send me warm fuzzies about how wonderful my writing (and I) am."

And since both of these places were NOT my own personal LJ, I was neither sarcastic nor snide. I used a great many of the little smilies and a whole lot of IMHO's and YMMV's. The same certainly couldn't be said about the responses that I received.

Still, now that I'm feeling better, I can delete the garbage with less hostility (and self-doubt) than I could last night.

It does, however, illustrate the point as to why the WWW will never replace face to face discussion and true open debate.

[finabair.livejournal.com]

Icktch. I just *love* (sarcastically) the folks who say they want your opinion but in reality only want it if it is in fact theirs.

And you not-hostile is *always* a good thing. Makes me feel safer and all. ;-)