Two main reasons are making me mad:
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| Maybe I need a drink so I won't be so angry |
2. Writing. I'm reading books that I keep putting down because they aren't very good, and then I can't believe that my books aren't published. What's the deal? I'm not saying my books are masterpieces, but I think I can give many of these books a run for their money.
A writing instructor at one of the colleges where I work is reading my novel. She has lovely things to say like, "I'm fully engaged" and "I can picture this." Then yesterday she says that to get published my manuscripts need to "have some bite," which I interpreted as snarky and sarcastic, or they have to be so intelligent that people bow down in amazement at how smart the author must be.
And I said, "Who wants to read books like that?"
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| Maybe I need to go to France with Grace and eat crepes |
So why are these things making me mad?
Well, a few weeks ago, I told Earl that I might be entering menopause so I'd be more irritable than usual. I was only using that as an excuse so that I could tell him to stop reading sections of the newspaper to me while I was trying to work.
Now that I'm feeling so mad about everything, I wonder if those words aren't true. Maybe everything gets under my skin because I'm starting menopause. Or maybe that's just my excuse du jour.
Show me that I'm not alone. Tell me what makes you mad?
4 comments:
almost wrote a novel there....my pet peeve...Todds, wallet and keys and change on the kitchen table and him hanging his work jacket on the kitchen chair instead of the hall coat tree oh and his hat on the kitchen table...ewww pisses me off. Yes this is daily.
Just read a book like that. Hated it. I like books like yours better
Oh God, I remember the small town gossipy nature of high school. Even when you don't live in a small town, high school is its own small town! Soooo glad my son graduated last year and I am done with that. I like your son's name, btw.
Mad. Hmmm. yes, if I had written several books which had yet to be published and saw some of the garbage that is, i would be bloody mad. Stop giving your stuff to people at work, focus on finding an agent or maybe self publishing? Or an e-book? Sorry, I don't even know you, I apologize for being so blunt!
I've been more cranky than usual due to a medication change and I take it all out on my husband. Mostly I get mad when he wakes me up. I get mad on how I am treated by my children sometimes but usually I manage to keep it to myself.
I feel the same about books. I have no idea how some of them get published.
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