Frustration Springs Eternal...but at least the flowers are fragrant...
All I wanted to do was set up the reminders for Marathon Writers so that Gail and I didn't have to remember to send them out every Monday and Friday afternoons. I mean, isn't that the point of the Yahoo reminders for Groups?

Anyway, in order for me to test the reminders, I wanted to set the members to no mail. No sense in spamming the members while I tested the reminder feature. Right? RIGHT?!?

Apparently not. When I set everyone to NO MAIL. Yahoo saw fit to remove the members. A group of 30 something went to 2!

UGH!

Lucky for me, I went into management and pulled up all the members of the group. I have spent the last hour or so reinviting the members to join the group. Sometimes it just doesn't pay to log on...also, while I am typing this, I am waiting to see if the reminder is going to work...wait...AOL says "I have mail..."

Well, whaddaya know...it worked! Now I just need to change the dates...be right back...

Okay..reminders are set up and members are trickling back to the group. *whew*

I really want to thank everyone who took the time to post comments, email me and IM me about my decision to walk away from writing. You all pretty much said the same thing, that I was too talented (blush) and stubborn to quit now, but that if I wanted to walk away for a bit you understood. Some of you said that I was incapable of walking away forever.

You are all right. I am too stubborn to walk away forever. And I do feel I have a God-given talent, and for me not to use it would be to waste something God saw fit to bestow upon me. So, I won't walk away from it completely. But for now, I am going to take a break from writing..articles at least. And when I do get back into the article-writing groove, I am going to shoot for the "big guns"...Business 2.0, Entrepreneur Magazine, Female Entrepreneur..and a couple of others. That's who I want to write for...these are the bylines I truly want, so I should be aiming for them. Right? Right.

Other than that, I am going to focus on fiction. As Gail so wonderfully pointed out, I didn't write 50k of "Three Wishes" for it to sit in a desk drawer. So, I am going to complete the edits and rewrites, and shoot for the "big gun" agents and publihsers.

I guess I am drawing my line in the sand. It's time to put up or shut up...put my money where my mouth is..practice what I preach...

It's also time for me to kill the cliches. LOL

Well, there is a pot roast in the kitchen waiting for me to give it some personal attention, and a few potatoes that are begging to get nekkid and into some cold water. Take care everyone, and yeah, I'll be posting here once in a while..so check back. :-)

Thanks to all of you for you kind words and advice. You will never know what it meant to me.


- posted by Kim @ 3:29 PM