It has been a while since I did a midweek post. All sorts of things, including my mental well-being, got in the way of making my appointed posts. Facebook is one of those things which got in the way with its shiny time consuming games. I really should trim those back again. A few more appeared out of the aether again to tempt me into spending more time away from writing and studying again.
You heard correctly, I said studying. The studying I was supposed to do to earn my insurance license. That exam was for today. No, I did not pass. I failed miserably, but they did do a break down so I know where to focus my studying for the next exam. Underwriting got me the most and the rest was how they worded the questions and the lists answers. I know the material, but sadly, my normal study habits were lacking a couple of things which help a lot. The good news is I can keep trying until I pass and I WILL pass. Eventually.
Once I pass the exam, I'll have a job. So, tomorrow is a brain break to get myself back into the groove for the exam again. Also, tomorrow is therapy day for my son so there's not a lot of time to give the attention to the eight chapters on Underwriting, life insurance, medical insurance, and the state regulations and such. I will be bringing one of the chapters with me to read just to help pass the time instead of playing games on my smart phone.
I don't know if anyone else has seen the news release that Amazon is setting up a fanfic section of their Kindle release books. When I first heard it, I thought... Why? Why would someone want to make it possible for an unknown who loves to write fanfic (there are precious few who can actually write well enough to be worth publishing. One of the girls in my NanO group is proof of that). Then, I got a peek at the rules Amazon wants the would-be authors to follow.
Now, anyone with a lick of sense will know that this is a bad idea if a big corporation is involved. Amazon wants people to write in the worlds they have licenced. To make matters worse, in the terms of use, they will screw over the person who has written the fanfic by taking ownership of the copyright, whether the characters are their own within that world or not. Now, the would-be author would get royalties, but the original author gets a tidy percentage of that.
My thoughts on that? A big resounding NO! Capitol N Capitol O. NO. If that isn't screwing someone over just to get more stuff written in a particular world, I don't know what is. The co-ml for my city's Nano group put it best in her post The Future of Fanfiction. Rebekah couldn't have put it better. Me? I sound like I'm on a rant.
It's a good thing and it's a bad thing. Either way, I am taking no part of it. What fanfiction I write will either remain on my hard drive or published with proper credit on my forums, OR, if I am lucky enough to get permission to use their world and characters, I'll publish it on SmashWords or someplace similar. I will not go for shady shenanigans like Amazon is trying to pull.
Enough of the semi-rant, on to the goals!
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1) Get a job or at the very least attend five interviews for a job.
Only three interviews this month, but, there's still a week to get the other two in. But, I do have a job, sort of. I say sort of because I need to pass the state exam for Life and Health insurance. I'll keep retaking until I pass.
2) Edit/revise five chapters of Society of Night and Lies.
There weren't quite five chapters left before I sent the fir 11 chapters out to the beta readers. I'm still kind of toying with chapter 11 now because a great idea has popped into my brain on how to put more tension into the plot.
3) Write two chapters of Black Friday 2.
I haven't touched this one, yet. Too many other things took precedence. I'll be working on this one shortly. Might get one chapter done before the 31st.
4) Exercise twice a week.
Ummmm... not quite there, but I am working on it. Got one day down for this week. The rest will come soon enough.
How has your week been?
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