As someone who has a competitive nature, I hate to run into road blocks... especially when they come courtesy of my own mind.
I've been working on some projects and there's one that has come together, but in a thoroughly disappointing way. I mean, it's just not good. Really not good.
It's a type of writing I don't typically do... and I've never marketed my services for it, but a long-time client requested something a little different. And so I delivered. Sorta.
The problem isn't the money issue. (Can you say "Freebie?") I don't give a doggone flibbity flubber about lucre in this instance.
It's the fact that I hit a wall so high and so wide... and I can't find the freakin' door or even a small crack in the foundation through which I can slip. That's driving me nuts.
It makes me want to shout naughty words out my window:
"Cruddly pinking sheers!"
(I don't swear much anymore... can you tell I'm out of practice?)
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- The best way to describe me? Two words: "Lone Wolf". But don't be fooled... I love networking with people around the globe. It's just that I prefer to be the director instead of the audience.
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3 comments:
Cruddly pinking sheers!
Ha! I'm keeping that for the books! What an awesome curse.
Sorry about the wall. I'm sure you will overcome it!
Happy new year!
Ello:
Use it with glee! :) Kids love made-up swear words. And they kind of help you "let go" of the pissiness. (Is that a word? Who cares! I love it.)
Thanks for the positive thoughts.
Happy new year to you, too!
Angelique
I once had to rewrite a 155-page paper on mineral assemblages. In my worst nightmares, I sometimes go back to that time. When I did it, there was no one around better qualified who could do it instead. As the one-eyed man, I got to be king, but it was still horrible.
After that, I had a short-term job as copy-writer and rewriter of copy generated by Japanese copywriters only somewhat literate in English. Again, I recall the work I did with a creeping sensation and great shame: it seriously stank. So I think I know how you feel, and from one reluctant writer forced to travel out of her comfort zone, I salute you. Soon it will be over and you will be the better writer for having done it.
Plus, you get to tell everybody the story. Win-win, but after the fact.
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