A Good Pace · 10:05pm Sep 17th, 2020
I made a promise that I'd keep up a good pace now that my life is in a better place. And now I have the second to last chapter.
We're nearing on the home stretch.
I made a promise that I'd keep up a good pace now that my life is in a better place. And now I have the second to last chapter.
We're nearing on the home stretch.
Sat down today, the day after I published the latest chapter and wrote the first 2,000 words of the next chapter.
See, I never really stopped working on my creative writing stories. I worked out where I wanted them to go and how I wanted them to end. I just need to get it all down on paper. I know that's no excuse for the two-year absence for this story, but I'm trying to make amends for that with regular updates on how it's going.
It's been a long while since I've looked at My Littler Serial Killer with a close eye and saw a LOT that could be edited and improved.
So, I went through every chapter of My Little Serial Killer these past two days and did a complete overhaul.
I'm about two-thirds of the way done with the new chapter of My Little Serial Killer. That should be posted by the end of this coming week.
So, I became a reporter for a local paper and thought things would change and I'd have a nice, easy life.
What I didn't expect was to be the only reporter for that local paper. A normal week would see me writing at least six full-length stories. I'd also help put the paper together for publication. I was basically an assistant to the editor in all but name. And pay.
Do you know when the busiest time to be a journalist is? September, right up until Christmas. You have local elections you need to keep up on, in addition to what you're normally doing, then Thanksgiving rolls around and like, 8 different entities do something related to that and then Christmas is the same story.
Pic related.
I went to college for Journalism, got my degree, and for the last year, I've been trying my damnedest to get a job somewhere that I can make use of that degree.
And last week, I got it.
I'm officially a reporter for the local newspaper, starting next week.
Alright, so bear with me.
Back when I started writing, I was just getting out of Highschool and just starting college. College was community college and I was taking it part time and had a part time job. I had a butt-load of time I could use to do anything and occupied a lot of my time with writing stories.
First was Love Triangles and Other Funny Shapes, then within I think like, a 3-4 month period, came Healing Dash, Candy Sutra, and Freudian Slip around there too.
Yeah, that new place I'm working?
It's worse.
I didn't account for the time spent driving, the money for gas, the people working there and just how under funded, under staffed and un-knowledgeable some of the people working there are. I'm just in awe. It's just... wow. I can't believe it.
Thought I've give you all an update on my status. Things have been less than good, to be honest. My old shifts used to be great. I'd have work from 10 AM to 5:30 PM around 4 times a week and have the rest of the day to my self and I'd still have a lot of energy.
Since some changes have happened, we had to condense and cut hours in some places and extend them elsewhere. I went from that shift to 12:30 to 9:00 PM
Yeah. That has been eating into my personal life, if I'm honest.
My first story is up on my alt. account. Payback's a Dish, Best Served with Chocolate.
Give it a read if you're into that sort of thing and lemme know what you think.