And your problem is?

So I was checking the stats to my story, which is now 23 chapters long I am happy to say and I notice that I have a new review. I’m always happy to get them, but this one kind of struck a nerve with me. Out of allllllll the chapters I’ve written the only thing this person could find to pick at me for was…a comma! This to me is someone who has zero time on their hands that you can read so much and that’s the only thing you take away from it. Not that the story is any good (which at the end they said they liked it) but that the commas are where THEY don’t think they should be. Now to my knowledge of Microsoft Word (at least on my version for Mac) it corrects sentence errors as well. Sentence fragments, a semi-colon should go here, etc. I re-read my stories over before posting them and I just think it’s lame of you to leave me a review about a stupid comma! What? Do you have something against commas? Did they torture you when you were in grammar school? Did they haunt you in your dreams? It’s a stupid comma! Get over it! On a happier note…guess who is going to be getting their hands on a new Canon 50D soon? I am so excited! I have been looking to upgrade my little Rebel XT for quite some time now and was actually going to make the big leap and get the Canon 5D Mark II but after seeing and hearing about these so called “black dots” that seem to mysteriously appear in some of the pictures and also the fact that my lenses would not be compatible with it, I decided to just slow my row and go with a major / minor amatuer upgrade. Seems fair to me. While the 5D Mark II is tempting I have to remind myself I am still very much a rookie and I need to take baby steps and not leap right into the big guns. My photography teacher and his little Rebel XSI are totally jealous. Ha ha. Random pointless entry, but I felt the need to update you guys on my life and the comma lady kicked me into updating.

So Humiliated

My grandpa got a hold of my story and proceeded to humiliate me by showing it to everyone in the office! Ugh I don’t know why these things always happen to me. It was something I was trying to keep low key probably because my father, god rest his soul, never really liked that I was into writing. He always saw his only son as being some kind of macho athlete and well I think I disappointed him a lot when I chose not to pursue sports after my Freshman year of high school. Now they’re all trying to print copies afraid I’m going to take it down out of sheer embarrassment, but I like my story so much I’m not willing to part with it. Everything I wrote in that story is how I’ve felt at one point in my life or another and honestly it has consumed my life like anyone with a passion for writing. My gramps said he showed it to them because he’s proud of me and while I am a little annoyed by it, it makes me happy that finally someone accepts the fact that I am not an athlete. Sure I swam on the swim team, but nothing makes me feel more at home than to sit down in front of my computer and spill all my emotions into my characters. One girl even cried, but she cries at tv commercials too so its definitely not an ego booster, but its nice that my story made some sort of impact. O.k. Yeah I sound like a nut job I’m out!

Thanksgiving and Story Writing

I know I haven’t been around much. I hope everyone in the U.S. had a nice Thanksgiving. We did the usual turkey dinner and all that rubbish. I haven’t really been around because I have been throwing myself into writing my fiction story called Kindle. I have gotten sooooo immersed in writing it that I haven’t really spent any time doing anything else. It definitely is a great stress reliever and I have always been one that I have so many thoughts running through my head, but I never seem to get them down on paper. This time though I am making sure I get this story out as it is really good, to me at least. So anyone who is interested in reading a semi decent fiction story should check me out on FictionPress.com

http://www.fictionpress.com/~kindleetzweiler