Instant Gratification

I'll admit it. I'm a creature of instant gratification. I believe that is why I love submitting short stories and poetry online. I know the publication received it and in some cases I can track it's progress (NFG Magazine has a great site for tracking your sub) and usually response times are decreased. Not to mention all the paper saved and money not spent on postage. When I don't have any acceptances or even rejections for awhile I get a little depressed. It has been an arid month on the notifications for me and on top of it all, everyone on my favorite writers forum must be busy writing or something, because there ain't much going on. Hopefull I'll get out of this funk soon.

I had today off so after I dropped the kids off at school, me and the hubby went out for breakfast. I mentioned to him that my new CD player in the truck is still on demo mode and I couldn't get it off. Now I'm usually pretty good at reading directions and following them. But for the life of me, I couldn't get the darn thing off of demo mode. My husband read the same directions I did but was unable to figure it out. So, we drove down to the place where we bought the darn thing and asked them to fix it. It took the guy two seconds.

"Did you do what the directions said?" I asked him, knowing darn well he didn't. I watched him.

"The directions are wrong," he said without much care.

"What?" I half asked, half yelled.

"Yeah, that's a problem with Kenwood. Has been every year for a while now," he said and walked back inside.

So, now I have a new, very complicated stereo in my truck and the manual contains incorrect directions. As a writer, I'm bothered by that a bit.

On the writing front, I finished the handwritten issue 69 of the serial. This is the first issue of 1863 and I wasn't sure what I should do with it. But then an idea hit me and I believe it to be brilliant. I still need to do a bit of research but I believe it will tidy up 1863 and the end of the serial nicely. I plan to finish issue 70 tonight and issue 71 tomorrow. I also wrote two different book reviews and sent them off to the editor. I still need to do one more review this month to have my own bookshelf at Mid West Review. It is under a pen name but I know it's mine.

So here I am on a Friday night writing my blog - What - a - loser!

B.K.