Writing, part 1

As my boyfriend has gone to take the dog into the backyard, I’ve decided to jot down a few things about writing, and being a writer.

There are different truths for different people about writing. One of the ones I happen to agree with is: you have to want to write. It can’t be a chore, or a job; if you start feeling like you’re punishing yourself when you sit down to write something, then maybe it’s not for you. Try something else that gives you that giddy tingling feeling in your gut.

One of things I don’t agree with is that you have to write what other people want to read. For one, public opinion changes so rapidly that it would be impossible to keep up. Two: I love fantasy. I like some other genre’s, and then I absolutely cannot stand romance novels. Because romance novels sell, does that mean I should write them? I’d never finish it – it would become a chore to sit down and type out the drivel that I hate.

So. Don’t just write what you know. Write what you love. You’ll write better, and probably still be writing in a couple of years down down the road.

Some people ask, where do you get your ideas? My answer – lots and lots of daydreaming when I should have been doing something else.

More writing tips later.

I hate my job (yeah, that's original).

It's not my co-workers - they're actually pretty cool (although some of them have asshole moments - to the point that they are abusing the privelage). It's not even my boss - although I understand that they hired her into the position solely for crowd control.

It's more her bosses, and the other departments I have a serious problem with. The more than half of an entire department who are there to pick up a paycheck. Two entire shifts who don't do anything until the very end of their shifts to make everything look like they've been hard at work for the last 8 hours (and screw up daytime shift in other departments when we get the sudden influx of work while nothing has been coming in in the afternoon shifts).

Of course I've been mulling this over for a long time, but it really hit home recently when I caught a look at the incentive program report; every department was marked off for either things they weren't implementing, or didn't have a plan for. Our department? We're absolutely clean. Perfect score. But we get an overall 65% because of nursing and administration.

Recently, we had a company dinner, where every property had nominated an 'employee of the year' for each department. Except our department. We get paid the least, given the least recognition, and yet more is demanded.

In retrospect, one of the other nursing staff was there, and told us what had happened at the party. The other companies at least called their employee's of the year out for recognition. Ours didn't. She felt like a fool, being invited for the food.

Whenever I get the hell out of here, I'm not giving notice. These people don't deserve two weeks of my time.