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I like that desire of accuracy but do you think that Clinton made pladges than Bush did by any calculation? At Gleneages, many or the G7+ Russia made pladges to increase aid, but the reality is that, besides the scandinavian countries,the only other country whose share of aid has increased is the US.This happened under this administration.
posted by
Flame-thrower
on October 10, 2005 at 5:30 AM
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Since Clinton in 1997 the grants to Africa was $1.1 billion and in the or during Bush he has granted $ 3.5 billion or more. However, I am well aware that there is a difference between pladges and the real thing on the ground. Nonetheless, the only western country that has increased his its aid package is the US.
posted by
Flame-thrower
on October 10, 2005 at 2:26 AM
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MayB
You express wise observations. Hemlocker
posted by
Hemlocker
on October 9, 2005 at 11:04 PM
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PS: Sorry the envelope was fat.
posted by
majroj
on October 9, 2005 at 9:54 PM
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Okay, but besides two posts about flogging yourself, how's things?
It IS good to be recognized, but we almost never get the exact type we want from the people or whatever we wanted it from. If we got that, then we'd want it at the Sheraton, not the Hilton.
If no one's good enough for our daughters or sons, who or what's going to be good enough for our "inner kids"?
If you have written well, you have been a good writer. If you wrote well all the time, you'd be a fraud. No one writes perfectly all the time, everyone has a slump.
If they want you as a freelance, tell 'em you were really interested in full-time and that out of curiosity, you wondered if they didn't give you the slot because of some objective reason (money dried up, they found someone else, they need someone with only two eyes for the jacket photos), or if it was one of those "intangibles"? (Maybe include this note with a knock your socks off article?).
You know, this is the sort of stuff a real writers' guide needs to have.
posted by
majroj
on October 9, 2005 at 5:13 PM
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It's a constant battle to outrun those demons, and they're at every turn! I'm sorry you didn't get the job, MayB, but something worthy of your time and talent will come your way. i'm sure of it.
posted by
SilverMoon7
on October 9, 2005 at 4:27 PM
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MayB,
I think you're a great writer and I really hate to see good writers go through this. I'm certainly no expert, but maybe if you did write some freelance for that company, they would offer you a full time position. They are already interested in your work, so maybe they just need a little more proof of your abilities.
posted by
SpitFire70
on October 9, 2005 at 4:10 PM
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MayB--
Splendid post! For me, the writing-related rejections have varying degrees of pain, depending upon how much I want the project and also, how certain I am that I am going to get it. (trying to make sense of those are always difficult).
I like the quote as well, it says a lot in very few words.
posted by
Julia.
on October 9, 2005 at 2:10 PM
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Frankenkitty, yes I wasn't too worried about the job. It was nice idea for a while but the ideas are usually better than reality.
posted by
Azur
on October 9, 2005 at 1:53 PM
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I'm sorry you didn't get the job,
but it sounds like you're okay with that to some extent. I haven't begun rewriting my book yet. My dad really likes my writing. It's the one place I can send anything and never get a rejection or feel inconspicuous. Makes me feel lucky. The one good thing about rejections is that sometimes they keep a round pegs from getting stuck in square holes. I hope good things for you no matter what
posted by
Flumpystalls3000
on October 9, 2005 at 1:48 PM
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Ariala, yes rejections are often more to do with advancement of colleagues and friends etc
posted by
Azur
on October 9, 2005 at 1:04 PM
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Brisbane Artist, I think you are very wise. I agree that to wait for permission is to wait forever. However, sometimes the carrot is held tantalisingly close and so you reach for it and then it is pulled away.
posted by
Azur
on October 9, 2005 at 1:03 PM
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Carolyn Moe, thanks. Good to see you.
posted by
Azur
on October 9, 2005 at 1:01 PM
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Tapsel-T, absolutely right
posted by
Azur
on October 9, 2005 at 12:48 PM
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Flame-thrower, on that basis you should refer to the sainted Bush as well
as many supporters regard him as unblemished or an angel. I understood what you said about governance but was the increase in real terms?
posted by
Azur
on October 9, 2005 at 12:45 PM
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MayB, I guess that as a writer I should think of rejection in the same way as Sylvester Stalone does, "
I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat."
posted by
TAPS.
on October 9, 2005 at 12:34 PM
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Good points raised in your comments. It is the desire of Bush to see progress, hence he has demaded that,any further aid be conditioned to the following: democracy and good governance and results are there already. As concern why I refer to Clinton as sainted? It is because his followers or supported do regard him as unblemished or even an angel.
posted by
Flame-thrower
on October 9, 2005 at 12:27 PM
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Though only a high school graduate, Joyce Meyers' new book on Approval might be relevant... ?
posted by
cmoe
on October 9, 2005 at 11:53 AM
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MayB, I'm thankful for the rejections...it keeps me humble and ever
striving to write better...and sometimes it has little to do with our writing skills or the subject, and everything to do with the editor and what's going on at the time with a certain publisher.
Good post. 
posted by
Ariala
on October 9, 2005 at 5:51 AM
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I know MayB
Why don't you write a book that really really matters to you. ??
?
You are the only one who can actually validate you
I don't know if you know I have been writing a comic under contract
If I hadn't been able to believe in myself and the worth of what
I was doing it sure wouldn't have gotten done because of the validation of others.
People live in such social fear
MayB what you really are saying is that you really just want to write what you want to write
I have decided to self publish the things I really want to write
I used to think people who self publish weren't perepared to take the flack from Editors Publishers etc
What I wanted was the validation of these people
"She was even good enough for us to publish!"
Now I realise that I just won't change the essence and core of what I really want to work on the please others into publishing for me
Exploit me in other words
and change my words and pictures
if they want to write a book let them go and write one
from now on!!!!
Sisters UNITE!
Write what ya wanna write and be done with it!!!
Jo
(And with that the very last page of the comic
fell off the printer
ON TO THE FLOOR!)
Splat and that's that!
posted by
brisbane_artist
on October 9, 2005 at 5:45 AM
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