the art of not punishing yourself

[jana_denardo]

I completely wrote down the wrong date for one of the open calls I wrote for but rather than berate myself for being an idiot or wailing about wasted time like I would have done not so long about, I'm just shelving it for later. Because I'll surely find something else it might fit.

I said no more open calls so naturally I'm already thinking on the DSP one and now someone sent me a Samhain one. This morning I dismissed that due to the very high word count that Samhain anthologies have. However, this is NOT an erotica call. It's just plain romance. I could actually have an older story that could be expanded a bit (and go under my non-erotica pen name).

In fact I just found two boxes of older stories that would probably need retyping (after X number of computer crashes and changes in storage devices (let's face it floppies corrupted all the time), I may no longer have them in the old files. It's something to think about.

Am I a little disappointed in myself over this. Yeah but I'll live.

21. Do any of your characters have children? How well do you write them?

So far in my erotic writing, no they do not. I have written them elsewhere and I can say that I do not do it well.