Dismantle My Bed

Self publishing can be a bit of an issue. You can end up with a lot of boxes of books in your home. And I do mean a LOT! So, that’s when you start having crazy ideas. You know, to move the merchandise. And maybe even make a little cash. One idea - sell a mystery box on eBay. Fill it with several copies of the book and nothing else so you can ship it media mail. Good money if you can find any suckers.

I haven’t been getting much writing done at work lately. You see, “upper management” decided to institute quotas on we, the wee peons in the claims department. No, those are not unnecessary quotation marks. I think that the term “upper management” is one of the most ridiculously pompous, let-me-declare-to-you-my-importance terms in our stupidly corporate society. Those quotations marks are actually imperative.

Under average, ordinary circumstances, I really wouldn’t give two shits about losing my job, but since we are in full-on debt pay down mode, I need to keep the cash coming in at the pathetic trickle that my job provides. So that means I’ve been spending a majority of my time at work actually working. Okay, so more like fifty percent, but it’s still a helluva lot more than I used to do, and I’m still pissed the fuck off about it.

I cannot say that I am not making money from my writing. In fact, much of my online writing has led directly to increased opportunity for money-making. So, writing online stuff equals money-making, and money-making from writing is good.

I just didn’t think that it would be like this. I thought that I would be writing a bit more in the fictional, scary, creative genius kind of way. I thought one day people might want to pay me because I’m quirky, not because I’m quick. I guess that’s kind of wishful thinking.

Don’t worry. It’s not something I’m prone too much.

You know, a lot of popular books today use the smallest possible words within the smallest possible sentences to get their point across. I don’t understand this mentality. I mean, what’s wrong with big words, or just uncommon words? Why do we have to use the same thirty words to make every argument we might have throughout the day? What’s wrong with a run-on sentence. I talk in run-on sentences all the time. Why can’t I write in them?

And do you know why the use of a thesaurus should stop being prohibited by editors and publishers? It’s beneficial for society, that’s why! It will help kids who are taking ACTs, GREs and other acronyms. It will help those who always get beaten at Scrabble. Let us spread the literacy.

It’s a good thing.

I just want to make it very, very clear that I do not enjoy Mitt Romney. It seems important to point this out since his face appears on this page. See, sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do, and I didn’t mind directing people to an election site. Personally, I find voting an important responsibility. However, why they felt it necessary to put Mitt Romney on first, so that it is him who appears in the little frozen pane below is beyond me. I wish that I could fix it, but I can’t, so we will all just have to endure the pain of it together.

Forgive me. I am poor… and I am weak.