Writer's Block: Jackpot

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I've only bought one lottery ticket in my lifetime (in Oregon, just after they instituted a lottery back in the early 80s -- I didn't win anything, so I didn't do it again), so it would be a real trick for me to win unless someone bought a lottery ticket for me.

That said, I'd stop the job hunt, then I'd pay off my condo, or maybe sell it, buy the smallest RV I could find (a tricked-out van, most likely -- all I need is water, a toilet, and a stove), and make another long trip, this time across the middle of the US and back across Canada, then buy a new place with a garden larger than a postage stamp when I got back, and a cottage for a caretaker so I can have my house and garden and cats and travel without worrying, too.

I'd like to think lots of money to throw at the problem of not being able to sell the book would help, but I rather doubt it would.

As Miles Vorkosigan once asked of himself, what can I buy? that I want? Not much. Except for the garden and travel thing, obviously.

We now return to our regularly scheduled migraine [sigh].

and your little dog, too, dammit

Am I stupid to be seriously offended when I run across posts like this?

Because posts like this do. Offend me deeply.

This type of post is very common on published writers' and agents' blogs, and I understand what they're trying to say. It's the way they say it that is just ugly.

Note, I am not asking to be told that I'm wasting my time with this reaction or that I'm too thin-skinned or that's just the way the business works, or any of the rest of the platitudes. I'm not complaining about the message (or at least I'm not asking to be told how I should react to the message). I'm complaining about the presentation, and the assumptions this particular style of presentation makes about the people it's aimed at. So please don't get all condescending on me. Thanks.