| Tehuti Needs To Learn To Pay Attention. :) |
[05 Sep 2002|03:55am] |
Lousy night last night. :( Went back to the museum and now all I can think of is how much better off Sharon would be WITHOUT me "helping" her. I can only be bogging her down taking up her time with her having to explain things to me. I just can't think for myself; I don't know how. She tells me how to do something; then when any TINY little thing deviates from what she told me, like when I don't have all the information needed to fill something out, I freeze. I can't compensate, I can't just wing it or make do with what I have. I just freeze, and get nothing done. I've really never learned how to think on my own; I can do what others tell me, but only so long as the situation doesn't change. I can't anticipate altering my course of action. I can only think in terms of static, unchanging things; I can't think on my feet. I'm entirely helpless on my own, and all I can be doing is slowing her down when I'm supposed to be speeding up her work. :(
So I don't know what to do. Ma thinks it's just because it's that time of the month. I'm surprised, granted, that she's even ACKNOWLEDGED I have problems at that time of the month--she's never taken notice of them before! (FYI I get VERY VERY depressed every month...every single little thing that upsets me makes me cry. The thing is, it usually happens the week BEFORE I start, not AFTERwards. So it's late this time.) But I still think I just suck at the job. I don't see any point to it. One thing I thought I MIGHT have a chance at doing moderately well, and I can't even file papers in folders right without breaking down crying or sitting like an idiot. <: the="the" written="written" a="a" 08/28/2002,="08/28/2002," that="that" found="found" to="to" or="or" from="from" have="have" in="in" few="few" {user:shadowscape}.
This time around I decided to look at works that are incomplete and unfinished. Just because it's not all there doesn't mean it's not worth looking at - would you dare to judge a book while the author still holds the pen?
Manitou Island
By {user:tehuti_88}
This is a looong fantasy detailing the adventures of a boy and girl attempting to save an alternate world from annihilation. Each chapter is near complete itself, but adds up to a larger whole.
Dragon Knights
By {user:dickjones}
Dragons, knights, swords, sorcery, chaos, conflict... combine equal parts into a bowl, mix well, and you get Dragon Knights.
Fantasy Story
By {user:alyndria}
By our own original fantasy newsletter editor, this yet-to-be-titled adventure has been overlooked too often. Give it a read and maybe she'll work on it some more.
A Shattered Crown
By {user:healer}
A long story in which the plot spans several years, two families vie for power of the throne over the Kingdom of the Stars.
Gothic
By {user:medussa}
Not really so much a fantasy story as it is a supernatural one, but when Carl finds that special woman he's been looking for all his life... it's just too bad for him she's a vampire.
Well...neato! :) I didn't even know I'd made mention in there again. I should really read these things when they come out, then I wouldn't feel so behind all the time.
I really don't have much else to say at the moment so away I go...
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| Contests, The Tehuti Way |
[05 Sep 2002|11:27am] |
Bored and just felt like sharing how to enter contests, the Tehuti way.
*Tehuti sees an interesting contest*
"Huh, cool. I could enter that one."
*Checks out the due date, then either writes a story/poem or submits an old one, then leaves*
*A month later gets 200 or so GPs in the mail along with a congratulations*
"Huh, fourth place. I don't even remember entering this thing. What do you know. Oh well, at least I got GPs."
The end.
I know, I COULD go back and see when I posted in contest forums, but I never win first place (wait a minute...I did ONCE. Okay. I won first place ONCE--and got ONE R&R, from the judge! :P ) so I don't bother. I think the last one was third place in a lyrics contest or something. Currently I think I have a couple of poems in the Autumn contest, and a short story in a fantasy contest...somewhere. I don't even know if that one is still running. Probably not. Oh well.
I should really keep track of things.
And I need to stop referring to myself by username in my entry titles. Seems a bit...vain. (I was going for a word more like egotistical but it just slipped my mind. I need aspirin.)
I have to go to the bathroom, BIG TIME@!! (Typo left intact to verify stress factor on bowels and bladder! TOO MUCH INFORMATION!!)
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