Shout Your Frustrations to the World! (You know you want to.(READ FIRST POST))

[springs]

It sounds like a frustrating beaureacratic nightmare and the last thing you need at the moment, BM; thinking about you. J

[Vertigo]

Yes I sympathise BM, I've had some not dissimilar dealings with insurance companies in the past though not under such fraught circumstances.

Hope it all works out the best it can in the end.

[Boneman]

Thanks both. I'm a true Libran - hate injustice...

[StormFeather]

Ah, Boneman - how frustrating. I almost wish that Esther Ranzten program was still on where you could get the 'Job's Worth' hat awarded to such people.

Something that I saw on a show, 'Don't get done get Dom', when you've run out of other options, you should ask to go through to their head of marketing (should be relatively easy to find out who that is with a large company) Threaten to write to all papers and industry journals with the story that they are abusing their position of power to take more money than necessary from a terminally ill client.

While it may sound weak, we were sent a new credit card that we never requested by our bank. My husband had tried everything to get them to cancel it, and it was only when I suggested this route (after they had charged us with a few months of standing charges, and then late payment fees - we now 'owed' them nearly £200 for a card we'd never used). I suggested this route, and although he doubted it, it worked very quickly. They cancelled the card, and the debt, and sent a letter to apologise for the inconvenience caused - rather than risk us going to the press with the story. The Marketing Department can carry a lot of weight . . .

Good luck with whatever you do
x

[Boneman]

Thanks stormfeather, I may just resort to that. I'm kinda hoping when I actually talk to the Insurance company, that there may be a wiser head there - ever the optimist... but if not, then I'll go with all guns blazing.

[Mouse]

Well my frustrations are silly compared to everyone else's but I'm gonna have a wee rant anyway.

Some people may remember me saying that my ex seems to have psychic powers, and that I'll not hear from him for ages... until I meet someone new. Last time I posted something here about me being unsure whether to go on a date because matey had text me.

Well, Psychic Sid has struck again. I've not heard from him in over a month. It's been great. I didn't even get a text from him on my birthday. Now today, I've got a date. And who texts me? Him.

But, I'm done with being an idiot. I'm not procrastinating, I'm not even texting him back. Why would I be interested in some big-eared ginger twonk, when I have a date with a 6'4 fox this eve?

[springs]

Mouse, are you sure noone is feeding him info? I know I mentioned it before, but it seems way too coincidental. And stick to your guns, you're right... and foxy with mousey, what could be better. Have a good night out!

[Mouse]

I did wonder this time, springs, because it's every time. But unless he's bugged my phone there's no way he could know.

[hopewrites]

Have fun tonight Mouse, hope if we hear about it after its in the other thread

[The Ace]

Originally Posted by Mouse

Well my frustrations are silly compared to everyone else's but I'm gonna have a wee rant anyway.

Some people may remember me saying that my ex seems to have psychic powers, and that I'll not hear from him for ages... until I meet someone new. Last time I posted something here about me being unsure whether to go on a date because matey had text me.

Well, Psychic Sid has struck again. I've not heard from him in over a month. It's been great. I didn't even get a text from him on my birthday. Now today, I've got a date. And who texts me? Him.

But, I'm done with being an idiot. I'm not procrastinating, I'm not even texting him back. Why would I be interested in some big-eared ginger twonk, when I have a date with a 6'4 fox this eve?

Please, Mouse, not the g-word. One redhead gave you a bad time, but leave the rest of us out of it.

[alchemist]

Perhaps he works for News International?

[Ursa major]

Originally Posted by alchemist

Perhaps he works for News International?

So, like Ace and me, he's a red top...?




(Okay, so I've gone blond. But it's the thought that counts. Isn't it...? )

[Fishbowl Helmet]

Good luck on the date, Mouse.

I'm frustrated with my writing. Not the quality or anything--that's poor anyway as I'm just starting to take it seriously--but with my output. I started a regular writing time a little over a month ago, with a really low word count expectation (500 words) just to get into the habit, make a routine of it. I've kept that routine up for 4-5 days a week consistently for the last 4-5 weeks now. I've finished 3 shorts, started 2 more, and am about 5000 words into a novella or longer short story.

This is all great, and I'm proud of that--baby steps and all--but I've started to stumble. For the last few days I couldn't break 250-300 words. The pieces I've written were all comedy-X (where X is some other genre) pieces and that seemed to be working out for me, but the last short I finished was straight SF, and the short I started was angling to be another straight SF (straight here simply meaning no comedic intent).

The novella / long short is a comic fantasy piece, but I set it aside to work on the two serious pieces. Finishing the one without trouble really, and then I hit the wall with the second. Couldn't write it at all, not blocked, but my inner editor was having a great day. So I called it and decided to start back on the comic fantasy novella the next day, which was day two of dulls-ville. So I thought I'd try to cleanse my palate and start something new today... and again crickets.

Last week I was on the cusp of "officially" changing my daily word count expectation to 1000 a day (because that's what I was pulling consistently), and now I'm sitting on three in a row of 300 or less. And if I'm honest, all that will likely need to be scrapped--not rewritten, but tossed altogether.

I view my writing as self-entertainment and play. I have a long-term goal of publishing, but have no illusions that what I'm working on now will be published, or that it's publishable. I'm just having fun with it; keeping in mind flaws I notice and trying to improve along the way. But somewhere I struck a false note, or something. So here I am.

Argh.

[Mouse]

FH - I wouldn't worry about output. I'm the Queen of Crappy Wordcounts. Last time I did any writing I managed all of five words. As long as there's ideas going on in your head, it's all good.

Ace - half my family are redheads, I'm allowed to use the g-word.

[The Ace]

Originally Posted by Mouse

FH - I wouldn't worry about output. I'm the Queen of Crappy Wordcounts. Last time I did any writing I managed all of five words. As long as there's ideas going on in your head, it's all good.

Ace - half my family are redheads, I'm allowed to use the g-word.

Errr not quite, people with the kind of suntans you don't generally find in Pitlochry can use the n-word and redheads can (I don't) use the g-word.

It's much the same thing, really.