Way Too HOT!!!

It was 90 degrees, along with the 79% humidity, when I came out of the restaurant at 8:30 this morning.

Breakfast was TOO crowded. All the people out to try to avoid the heat.

I stopped a couple of places, including the grocery, on the way home. Got the kitties canned food (usually they have dry) cause it was on sale and the first thing they did was lick all the gravy off and leave it dry.

I guess the heat has gotten to all of us.

I decided to have no sugar added ice cream (that I had just purchased) when I got home, but when we opened the container, someone had eaten out of it. How gross is that???

So, we tossed it. No way to prove to the store that we didn't do it. Maybe I'll go get some more later.

Setting the Record Straight

Maybe my last post wasn't quite clear, so I'm going to post this comment I left in response to a comment made to my post:

The instructor did NOT say I had to change the sex of the protagonist.

It's my decision because my idea is apparently not marketable in the current format...female protagonist, mixture of SF and magic elements, dimensional rift, character development and a big decision that could save--or destroy--the world. Her decision.

So, instead of putting myself through the torture of watching the idea torn apart, because I still think it works as a novel (though last night I was upset and feared it didn't), I've decided that, for the screenplay, I'm going to change the idea to a tried and true, box office formula.

The hard part is that I am NOT a formula writer.

The truth of the matter is that I could just have sucky ideas.

I'm not pounding on the instructor. He's GREAT. Full of information. Talented. GREAT.

I could just be sucky at developing ideas.

First Things First

Only because I get the feeling that people think I've been bashing the class instructor and that they think he said I should change my character, I have to set the record straight.

My earlier posts were all about ME feeling bad because he thought something was laughable. Quoted straight from my earlier post:

All because a professional told me that something in my universe was laughable and I got upset.

What I'm saying here is NOT that he did something wrong. He did NOTHING wrong. Not one single thing. NOTHING.

My point is that I have not enough self-confidence and that this upset me.

My point is that maybe my ideas are too stupid to be written.

And, that upsets me. No matter how good (or badly) I write, if my ideas are stupid, what good am I as a writer?

That's the entire point.

That said, some people asked for more evidence of what was stupid. I'll post my plot points, but I'm not going to leave the post up for long because there are people on my FL who take every opportunity they can to laugh at me and...well, that's what this is all about.