My projects.

[Saga]

I have three projects in line.

One is very similar to an existing project, so I am going to have to modify it.

One looks like it is going to get rubbished before it ever hits paper, so I am going to have to rethink it.

The third, looks other people have thought of it before me, but they haven't, and I can prove it, so again I will have to modify.

The only thing I can think of, to do, is to get all of them done, so well written, and modified, that no sentient being in the universe would not stamp them as passed and give me a check.

And then, start on another two.

I don't know what game it is people are playing, whether or not they think I am lazy, incompetent, an egotistic dreamer. Or whether they are determined I stay in my position and prove it is possible to get out of such a bad one, but it isn't very funny to me, at all.

I think, they think, I am deliberately leaking my projects, cos I am such a loser, I love it tucked away in the corner, and I don't want to come out.

I've only had two miniprojects acknowledged in my time, and I think people think I am coasting along on these. Or, I'm a fake. Or, a born loser. But they seem very,very interested in my 'half-project's. They don't like me, I think, cos I don't lose my temper, but when I do, and I have a cutting tongue, they don't like that, either.

Anyone else in a similar postion?

 

[PKTrekGirl]

I wanna play too:

The other day, or was it weeks ago, or months ago, or was it it years ago, no , i'm pretty sure it was the other day, oh well it dosen't matter. Some time ago I was in the store, no, library, no work, no, I don't remember, but I met a guy or a girl who told me about this thing which could be used to make stuff, that in turn could be used for somrthing. I saw something on some show, no read in a book, no heard on the radio, oh, I don't know, anyway, about that thing and the person was saying that you have to get some stuff and add it to the thing and something else is created, that stuff is then added to the other stuff and some thing will come out and produces a horrible whatcha call it? Once that is made then you have to take the dohikey and stir it up. After a few minutes, no seconds, no hours, oh well it dosen't matter, you get a beautifull looking something or other. Does that make any sense?

*holds up card*

9.6

 

[Marie1]

Just keep working... just keep finishing...

[Dorie] Just keep swimming just keep swimming..........[/Dorie]

 

[Sparky]

my ideas are sort of half-formed.

Sort of?

 

[sojourner]

I'm still half convinced this is all an A.I. of some kind being field Turing tested.

 

[Australis]

Are these projects for work? Then tell people you work for what you're doing.

Is this your after hours stuff? Find a writers' circle or whatever it is to share with. AS with most of these things, they'll be too busy with their own stuff to steal yours.

One day you really will have to tell us what your job is.

 

[Nowhere Man]

I wanna play too:

The other day, or was it weeks ago, or months ago, or was it it years ago, no , i'm pretty sure it was the other day, oh well it dosen't matter. Some time ago I was in the store, no, library, no work, no, I don't remember, but I met a guy or a girl who told me about this thing which could be used to make stuff, that in turn could be used for somrthing. I saw something on some show, no read in a book, no heard on the radio, oh, I don't know, anyway, about that thing and the person was saying that you have to get some stuff and add it to the thing and something else is created, that stuff is then added to the other stuff and some thing will come out and produces a horrible whatcha call it? Once that is made then you have to take the dohikey and stir it up. After a few minutes, no seconds, no hours, oh well it dosen't matter, you get a beautifull looking something or other. Does that make any sense?

*holds up card*

9.6

Fist off i'd like to thank that guy who created those people that time, my, umm, people ya know, I look like them, I also wanna thank that other guy, and that girl, the one with the boobs,You know who i;m talkin bout? I can't forget what's his name and his hard work on that thingy that inspired me to complete my thingamajigg.* bows *

 

[Nobody]

I think I can hear the sound of one hand clapping, or flapping, or something...

At least with MB, there was something you could get a handle on.

They did have much more of a narrative to follow. Though I think Hilbilly has the right idea, it might be a participatory show. Where the MB's stuck to their show no matter our reaction, while CJ runs off our responses. I guess "speaking in generalities" makes it easier. Overall, 8/10 for the concept, 4/10 for execution. No cousin love, I'm not as interested. Not saying I won't watch though.

 

[BolianAuthor]

Zathras good at doings... undoings... understandings and misunderstandings.

Zathras have miserable life.

Zathras probably have miserable death... but at least there is symmetry.

 

[KJbushway]

I am trying to do something, I just don't know how to do it.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

 

[BolianAuthor]

Just imagine Captain Sisko reading the text:

 

[Gepard]

Good lord, why?

 

[Cheapjack]

Jadzia and Ro's answers were good. They seemed to understand. I think I can hit gold if I keep going.

Actually, as I said earlier, I thought that some of my acidic comments had caused trouble in the workplace. I think they did, but not to the extent that I thought. In fact, hardly any at all, and some of my more mischievious workmates have been seeing if I would take the blame for sackings and reprimands that weren't my fault at all, were just random, and if it would affect my work. Very clever.

To be honest, I think my projects get the big pin, is cos I irritate the main boss, goaded by some of the more immediate ones.

I reckon I'll get promoted eventually.

And, for another conundrum: I'm made out to be a creep, by secret abusers of power, too. That happens a lot, too, I think. See if you can get the nerd to storm into your office?

 

[Nowhere Man]

*In the voice of Towely * I don't know what's going on, you wanna get high?

 

[Australis]

And you STILL don't tell us what you do.

 

[Kemaiku]

And you STILL don't tell us what you do.

And since he's probably in a padded room or a squallid little apartment living on welfare, he never will/can't.

 

[JarodRussell]

EVERYBODY STAND BACK!!!

I have a thread bomb, and I AM going to use it!

 

[Zero Kelvin]

What are these projects of which CJ speaks? I'm guessing IT-related but even that detail is left uncertain. Does he/she work in the public or private sector? The more I read the less I feel I know.

 

[Cheapjack]

RoJo and Jadzia seemed to have had similar experiences and offered good advice, which was sound. So, the theory that I am a tramp, or in a padded cell, doesn't hold much water. Cos, I have met people like that and their understanding of the world isn't as extensive as mine.

All I can do is get on with it and write my stuff. If someone else gets in before me, it's my fault, cos really, I should be working on it now, and getting it posted ASAP. Rather than waiting for someone who hasn't spent 36 years looking at a TV screen with rather nice people on it and thinking 'I could write some lines for them', do it. I'm not perfect, but who is? You rarely, if ever, see writers interviewed anyway.

My first project will have to be finished,logged and redone. The second reimagined. The third embellished and logged. I think, in this world, if you have a big portfolio and it looks like some work and thought has gone into it, it hasn't been cut and pasted, at least someone will say: 'Well, you've done something there. You haven't wasted your life.'

That, at least would do me. Cos all i'm getting at the moment is people repeating my stuff as if they thought of it, saying 'Well, time to move on', as if they are the main ideas people and hanging around outside my door, for more.

I wouldn't mind one of those macbooks and an iphone and a plane ticket, too.