![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xenithHaven't been updating lately.
Haven't actually been writing much. I looked at the plot line I was working on and realised most of it was backstory. Fun to write backstory but... so it's gone and now I need to rewrite a couple of scenes from scratch to "introduce" the back-up main character. The first one has him looking at a train, which has nothing to do with the plot at all, (although later in the scene do) but he wants to look at a train, so he is.
Wrote a job applicatin for a job that I am convinced is a advertised position with someone already in it. That used up a couple of nights of 'work time' though.
Uploaded some photos to istock, which is also taking up 'work time'. You can do thirty uploads a week. Each one is checked then approved/rejected. They're looking at photo quality, whether they have copyrighted items, whether they're too common/they have too many already etc. Lots of reasons you can get rejected.
I was reading the forums last night and the posters were saying when they started they'd get as many rejections as acceptances, or one. One newcomers said 3/4 of his first 30 were rejected. It's a learning process.
Got first 3 acceptances this morning. Yah! Expecting some rejections to come soon. I got a bit less cautious as I uploaded more so some of them are iffy (like a cat one last night, which had a flash reflection, which is a nono).
I'm surprised the tortoise photo was accepted though. It must be a common subject. There are a lot of zoo photos on the database, as you'd expect. So you go to the zoo with your camera and there are all these interesting animals... behind wire fences, behind glass, too far away, moving too quickly, standing next to things that scream "this is a zoo" *sigh* and there are the tortoises, standing quietly there with no visible barrier. Easy photo. Doesn't everyone take photos of the bloody things?
Haven't actually been writing much. I looked at the plot line I was working on and realised most of it was backstory. Fun to write backstory but... so it's gone and now I need to rewrite a couple of scenes from scratch to "introduce" the back-up main character. The first one has him looking at a train, which has nothing to do with the plot at all, (although later in the scene do) but he wants to look at a train, so he is.
Wrote a job applicatin for a job that I am convinced is a advertised position with someone already in it. That used up a couple of nights of 'work time' though.
Uploaded some photos to istock, which is also taking up 'work time'. You can do thirty uploads a week. Each one is checked then approved/rejected. They're looking at photo quality, whether they have copyrighted items, whether they're too common/they have too many already etc. Lots of reasons you can get rejected.
I was reading the forums last night and the posters were saying when they started they'd get as many rejections as acceptances, or one. One newcomers said 3/4 of his first 30 were rejected. It's a learning process.
Got first 3 acceptances this morning. Yah! Expecting some rejections to come soon. I got a bit less cautious as I uploaded more so some of them are iffy (like a cat one last night, which had a flash reflection, which is a nono).
I'm surprised the tortoise photo was accepted though. It must be a common subject. There are a lot of zoo photos on the database, as you'd expect. So you go to the zoo with your camera and there are all these interesting animals... behind wire fences, behind glass, too far away, moving too quickly, standing next to things that scream "this is a zoo" *sigh* and there are the tortoises, standing quietly there with no visible barrier. Easy photo. Doesn't everyone take photos of the bloody things?
no subject
Date: 2006-07-13 12:52 pm (UTC)Some nice change in your pocket if they do. Adds up with a world wide audience, I expect.