New Work: The Giving Child

Yeah, the title's self explanatory. I posted a new book on writerscafe. It's called the Giving Child. Go forth and read. As usual, it's under my username of littlestnewt (although I guess the name that shows up is Kay, but I don't really know how that works). I hope you like it. Although I hope you review regardless.

The Loss of Sharings

So remember how I was talking about how Didn't Mean To had been shared? Well, it had been up to 3 shares today, I was all excited and felt special, but when I checked moments ago it was back down to 1. Which makes me sad. I didn't know you could unshare something. I feel kinda unloved.

Sharing is Caring

I discovered something new about writerscafe.org today. Apparently, you can share things directly from the website. But that's not the new part. I knew you were able to do that, I'd accidentally pressed the button that would have allowed me to do it half a kazillion times. No, what's new is the fact that people actually use it. And that when they do use it, it takes not of it and puts a little number up there.

How did I discover this? It freakin' happened to me! I'm not mad. This sounds like I'm mad, but I'm really not mad. I'm really excited. That means that either someone knows nothing about technology and therefore clicked on a share button, or someone actually liked something that I wrote enough to share it with the world! Or maybe just their grandmother and her deaf cat, but I don't care! There's a grandmother and a deaf cat out there someone reading something that I wrote! How cool is that?!

The only problem is that I don't know who this person is, and it won't even tell me which platform it was posted onto secondhand. I've tried googling it a bunch of different ways, but I can't find it. So someone out there likes my writing, I don't know who and they've shared it with people I don't know. It's awesome, but kinda disconcerting, because it's weird knowing that it's been read and then given to others to read and I don't know who those others are. I just hope I've been credited appropriately. (If you happen to see it somewhere, let me know, I'd love to poke around where it's been sent!)

And Then There Was

Music. And not just any music, it was music at my school. We have a program in place where professional musicians come in and play for us and answer questions and so on and so forth. And every time I never fail to realize how unaccomplished I am. I mean, it's like every time I see someone else doing something they love and getting payed for it (regardless of whether or not it's a full time job) I'm reminded of how very little I've done with anything I've achieved. I've never won any contests, or been published, hell, I hardly get any reviews on anything I write and post (although that may partly be because of the fact that I never review anyone else's work so my name is hardly out there so people don't know to look at my work).

So this is rabidly becoming a venty, ranty expression of melancholy. Which is not what I want. Therefore, I am going to end happily! Or, well, try to. It depends on your idea of happy. To some, happy is death. To others, happy is a warm kitten. I don't know why a warm kitten specifically, beyond that it's alive, but who knows. Perhaps some people have temperature preferences for their pets, who am I to judge. Unfortunately, though, there shall be no death and no kittens. However, what there shall be is the reposting of something else I've written. If I get in trouble for it, I'll just take it down, but as it stands I plan to re-post That's My Problem (ie my lone attempt at comedy) on writerscafe.org under my username of littlestnewt (which is kind of my default if you hadn't noticed). Ideally the same pen name and the same story and names that work out and whatnot shall ensure that there won't be any copyright issues, but as far as I'm aware, submitting to the one site doesn't give them exclusive rights and I still hold copyright for it so it doesn't really matter. Anyways, technical worrying over and done with, I'm off to go edit and then post. Cheers!