Technology Fail
Dec. 16th, 2009 08:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
megwritesMy computer is finally starting to say it's long goodbye, which is putting a cramp in how much writing I can get done. For the curious, it's an HP that I bought in 2004 (or maybe 2005) and it's held up decently through being moved and having lots of crap put on it. But now it's stopped registering the mouse, so I had to plug that into a USB port and whenever it stops reading the mouse then, I have to unplug and replug it.
But now it's started just randomly shutting down for no reason. It'll be working perfectly and then *BOOM*, black screen o' death. So, I've kind of given up on it. I've taken over my husband's laptop so I can blog/email/twitter/attempt to write.
The Hubs - who has a lot of training in these things and is a general technosnob - says it's probably not a virus, just my computer crapping out. Still, I've changed a bunch of my passwords just in case.
We had planned to save up and get new laptops soon, but I guess the schedule for that just got moved up.
Woke up to a rejection in the inbox. It was a very nice form rejection that included an apology for sending a form rejection. It made me smile, because while that's a very sweet gesture, I don't think any agent should feel the need to apologize for a form rejection. The fact that you bother to send any notification of rejection is actually quite generous on your part. So it's like saying, "I apologize for being extra nice!"
Query Score Card update time! The score is changing not only to reflect the rejections I've gotten, but that I found yet another agent who accepts fantasy that I missed when I re-checked.
Requests - 2 (1 full, 1 partial)
Rejections - 3
Timed Out - 0 (from round 3. All of round 2 has timed out, rejected, or requested)
Still Pending - 4
I'm thinking of posting the agents I've found, thus far, that accept SF/F fiction along with a more specific list of what they have/do accept. I know other lists like this are out there, so would it be helpful to anyone else if I did this or no?
I've found that a lot of agents who will look kindly on vampires, werewolves and leather-clad heroines have no interest in science fiction or higher end fantasy, and I think it's a bit deceptive on the part of some search engines to say that a writer accepts "fantasy" - because that's like saying, for example, that Scott Lynch and Laurell K. Hamilton are writing the exact same thing and if you've ever read The Lies of Locke Lamora or any of the Merry Gentry or Anita Blake series, you know they're not.
But now it's started just randomly shutting down for no reason. It'll be working perfectly and then *BOOM*, black screen o' death. So, I've kind of given up on it. I've taken over my husband's laptop so I can blog/email/twitter/attempt to write.
The Hubs - who has a lot of training in these things and is a general technosnob - says it's probably not a virus, just my computer crapping out. Still, I've changed a bunch of my passwords just in case.
We had planned to save up and get new laptops soon, but I guess the schedule for that just got moved up.
Woke up to a rejection in the inbox. It was a very nice form rejection that included an apology for sending a form rejection. It made me smile, because while that's a very sweet gesture, I don't think any agent should feel the need to apologize for a form rejection. The fact that you bother to send any notification of rejection is actually quite generous on your part. So it's like saying, "I apologize for being extra nice!"
Query Score Card update time! The score is changing not only to reflect the rejections I've gotten, but that I found yet another agent who accepts fantasy that I missed when I re-checked.
Requests - 2 (1 full, 1 partial)
Rejections - 3
Timed Out - 0 (from round 3. All of round 2 has timed out, rejected, or requested)
Still Pending - 4
I'm thinking of posting the agents I've found, thus far, that accept SF/F fiction along with a more specific list of what they have/do accept. I know other lists like this are out there, so would it be helpful to anyone else if I did this or no?
I've found that a lot of agents who will look kindly on vampires, werewolves and leather-clad heroines have no interest in science fiction or higher end fantasy, and I think it's a bit deceptive on the part of some search engines to say that a writer accepts "fantasy" - because that's like saying, for example, that Scott Lynch and Laurell K. Hamilton are writing the exact same thing and if you've ever read The Lies of Locke Lamora or any of the Merry Gentry or Anita Blake series, you know they're not.
