Some Shots in the Sky

It's only been two weeks and things haven't gotten better. Then again no one really cares.

Some little highlights before I go off...

Thanksgiving went well, I kept myself from overeating. Only had two plates of food and one piece of cherry pie.

Decided to finally bite the bullet and write a query letter to agents in hopes t hat I can sell Daemon and not have it on the lulu.com site as a "vanity" press. I really hate that term. But then again I'm low on toilet paper soon and what best way to repleanish the supply is by a bevy of rejection letters with little or no advice to help you break into a medium that you belong? (This is me trying really hard not to bitch at the world.)

The shopping blitz of the year has started and so far I haven't run into (literally and metaphysically) any stupid humans as of yet. I keep my fingers crossed as sooner or later it'll happen. I try to be easy on the rest of you all, truly I do, but sometimes you all need a mental adjustment, including the youth of America, and this goes dubly for the educators.

Now being a son of two educators myself, one with a Masters in secondary education and the other with a Specialist degree in media education I may have some weight in what I say. Sooner or later the children will not be taught to write by hand. Hell, they hardly write cursive anymore. My son told me that teachers in elementary school, when he was there, took a months time teaching the students cursive, but nowadays, they only do three days to a week. If you don't get it you're S.O.L. Now they don't even want students to write things, just type them up onto the computer. (Shaking head.)

Things go boom, there'll be a lot of things that'll be S.O.L.

And me, with only a Bachelor's in English, has done nothing for me whatsoever. Now I put my latest book on the fire in hopes that someone gives me glory. My last novel, Shifter, I got one "maybe" and that turned into a no. WTF? Am I supposed to be the master editor here? Sorry, too many stories in my head to make sense about flow and feel. Still, they're better than Twilight.

H.R. Green, 28th of Novemeber, 2009, 9:32 p.m. Burtchville, MI