Rejection. The Theme of My Life.
A Day Without Rejection...
A day without rejection just wouldn’t be a day! So, as usual the writing is going swimmingly. Can you feel the sarcasm? Because you should! It should be palpable. Positively oozing off the page as all my hopes and dreams go up in a conflagration. So yes, more agent rejections are rolling at a consistent pace.
So, how is the attempt at a real job going? Well I am watching tutorials on Youtube about Thrutext. I need to learn all the texting apps. I asked on some of the Slack channels about someone helping me learn it, but no one has replied. So, I guess, as usual, I’m on my own. It’s really intimidating though as I have no real job experience. So I am WELL behind the curve. which, at the age of GETTING OLD, isn’t very optimistic.
But, how is the writing going? Well… it’s not. I’m quickly coming to the fundamental conclusion that it is pointless. That i have again wasted YEARS of my life trying to do something and have once again failed at it just like I failed at art and failed at comics.
Off topic. How are you all doing?? Are you submitting books to agents? Are you entering contests? Having a go at some sort of Twitter pitch contest? Because you should be!
Off, off topic I don’t like the banner I made so I will be changing it. So enjoy the ugly one while it lasts. I’m not as good at graphic design as I would like to be. If you want to know a couple of the deep regrets of my life (aside from every decision I’ve ever made) it would be NOT majoring in illustration and NOT (at least applying to) the Laguna College of Art and Design. And or majoring in graphic design. I don’t know that any of that would have solved my problems. And I may have had to quit just like I did SCAD because of my health problems. But who knows… maybe there is an alternate universe where I am not a giant failure.
LOL! I TOLD you this newsletter would basically be my FB whinging in long form!
Now, back ON topic. Or at least back to the topic of DOLLS. That doll I bought was wrongly delivered to SOMEONE ELSE and they HAVE NOT RETURNED IT. Apparently the mail carrier put the key to the big box we get our packages in, into the wrong post box. There are 16 boxes which service this “cluster” of homes. So one of those 16- NOT ME, got my doll! And they have either STOLEN it out right, or stuck it somewhere and forgot about it. I put a VERY nice (believe it or not) not on the boxes in the hopes that whoever got my doll will return it.
So, yeah. Life continues to be awesome.
I’m going to draw some small art for this newsletter, maybe. The majority of art is still going to be posted on my Ko-fi
Update!! My doll got sent back to Canada! It arrive at the seller’s safely and she’s sending it back!! I am NOT out $163! And I will hopefully get my doll this time! The second time is a charm? So anyway, I got ONE bit of good news.
I keep saying (to myself) I should quit writing. It’s not working out. And without an agent it’s not going to. I can’t grind out series for self-publishing on Amazon. Of course as often as I think I should quit writing I keep not doing it. Right now is the worst time to try to get a job. Until the pandemic is over and a vaccine in wide use there isn’t much to do BUT write. I may quit my NaNo project and try to work on the R&R from last year! OMG!
I think it is a truth universally acknowledged that 2020 pretty much sucked.
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