I was just now looking at the Writer’s of the Future blog where they had listed a second round of Honorable Mentions for this past quarter (including one for my friend and Clarion West 2008 classmate, Kristin Janz) when my phone rang. And it was someone from Writer’s of the Future telling me that I was a semi-finalist for this past quarter. Not quite the final round, but apparently I get a written critique out of it.

It’s encouraging, especially on the heels of a couple of rejections. And this was a pre-Clarion West story, so that is also encouraging as well (assuming I’m able to implement what I’ve learned).

Now I’m definitely going to spend the night writing…

One of the natural effects of sending out a bunch of stories is that it will inevitably lead to a bunch of rejections. It looks like they are starting to come trickling in. I have one certified rejection in my inbox and from another post on the interwebs I can see that another will be forthcoming.

Hurrah.

I need to write some new shit.

It looked like it was just a matter of unchecking a box, though I don’t know how it got checked in the first place. Perhaps when I upgraded.

So, please, comment away (again, LJ readers can ignore this).

People are telling me that when they try to comment on this blog, they are asked for a login, which is strange. There shouldn’t be anything like that. I usually have to approve comments, but that’s it. You should be able to post, especially if you have posted before.

I’ll look into it. Something’s not right…

So I’ve been using Microsoft Word for a long time. Since I was using it at work all the time it made sense to use it at home, for writing, and nearly everyone these days can handle Word files. I’ve been using it for years with no real problems.

But lately, it’s been driving me crazy. I don’t know if it’s just the latest version that I have, but it continues to act strange, doing things that I don’t want it to do. And I don’t remember it doing this before.

So I’ve been thinking about Word alternatives. There’s always Pages, since I use a Mac, but I don’t know much about it. Then there’s Scrivener, which I have interest in, but I don’t know if it’s a full service word processor.

If anyone has suggestions on alternatives, let me know.

(And I am aware of Open Office as well, but I need to look into it a bit more).