On tonight's installment of Thin-skinned writer is thin-skinned, insecure, and possibly crazy: my writing is not going as well as I would like, which happens. But someone on my FB posting a comment of "Jilli, this is getting to be a refrain. Enough with the wordcount broadcast already! Geez!" is not helping my mood.

t nope, the insecure and possibly crazy tag won't close

My college roommate's brother had, for the longest time, as his away message on IM a horoscope he'd once gotten: "You've always wanted a helper monkey, but your new harmer monkey will have to do."

I think that may be appropriate for you.

I feel your pain on the lack of word-count. This paper simply does not want to be written.

Ha! Harmer monkey! I think that's what I'll mentally tag that person as.

"Jilli, this is getting to be a refrain. Enough with the wordcount broadcast already! Geez!"

This person needs to not be friends with writers.

I've got a semi-stalker on LJ who keeps putting "helpful" notes in my posts like "great post, but could you put out the next bit of your fic soon?" Which is flattering in its small way but damned annoying.

Connie. Link your stalker to Neil Gaiman's "George R. Martin is not your bitch" post [link] Your stalker probably won't get the point, but you will feel better.

Harmer Monkey is awesome.

Jilli, that's your Fbook stream, not theirs. Also, having a wordcount to post *is* awesome.

eee. you guys, I got a fan mail this morning. This is a first.

Eeee! That's awesome, Sox!

Jilli, your Harmer Monkey friend needs to shut it.

I got a fan mail this morning.

Woo-hoo!!

I got a fan mail this morning.

Awesome. Fun!

I turned around 'Sarah' and sent it off to another place. Well they didn't want the manuscript just a description of the story, so technically I didn't send it off yet.

I picked a market for the other short I'm wanting to send out, but I need to edit it some more first. Maybe this weekend.