I fucking hate Amazon right now.

[guanin]

So naturally I must get on LJ and vent. I originally had Deadwood and Doctor Who to ship with two day shipping, but had to change it because Deadwood wasn't in stock and for some stupid reason I decided not to get Deadwood until June by having it ship here because international costs too much. Now both of these shipped today, Doctor who with two day and Deadwood regular. Which is BULLSHIT! The whole fucking reason I changed it was because supposedly they couldn't ship it until next week. So now it's going to miss me by two days when I'd decided to change it to international. But I can't ask dad to send it because just sending a letter to London cost me $26. This is the fourth piece of bullshit Amazon has given me in one week. I've sent them three complaints already. Fuck.

I need to get out and physically do something. Not sit in a car and get run over by traffic. Now I want a nap and I just got up. Writing isn't helping because it's depressing as hell and I just noticed that I have 5,000 words of solid paragraphs. No dialogue. And I don't see a way to have dialogue. Maybe this isn't a problem for other people, but I've never been able to read over a 1,000 words of non-dialogue without skimming forward until someone starts talking, unless the prose is amazing, but even then I need those quotation marks. It's very odd. I feel all bogged down and impatient. I'm a dialogue junkie. I think that's why mine last so long.

My friend didn't call so no going out today. Why am I always the one who has to call people?

Comments

[everworld2662.livejournal.com]

You are so right, though, about dialogue being preferable to prose, for the most part. At least initially, when I've just started a book, the last thing I want to read is lengthy and often spurious descriptions. =( But I think writers who write a lot of dialogue and love dialogue have incredible difficulty with prose, and over or under do it by default. And I don't know, but I always tend to over do it, "compensating" by writing totally unnecessary details and it's -incredibly- difficult to detect. [/ramble]

And dude, I'm sorry. Amazon sucks and has a history of screwing people over. I'm a bit of an eBay junkie so I tend to stay the hell away from Amazon. It's expensive -and- it fucks with you. At least eBay just does the latter, occasionally.

[guanin.livejournal.com]

My lengthy prose isn't actually description, which I'm still struggling to get too a point that isn't too sparse, but rambling mental stuff. Although in this fic, I have action occurring, but no one's talking because the two character's are alone separately for the whole beginning of the fic. I still have problems with describing actions, settings, facial expressions, etc. But I won't even read chunky descriptions of the scenery that have no bearing on the plot. I mean, why?

Actually, in 9 years, this is only (well, taking this week as a whole), the third time I have major problems with them. I actually think they're pretty cheap, definitely a hell of a lot cheaper than other non-ebay shops. You can find pretty amazing deals if you wait for them. I'd use Ebay if they'd let me use my debit Mastercard. However, they require a "proper" credit card, unless you give them your account number to "verify" your account or some bullshit like that and I ain't even touching that. Their half.com store doesn't take Puerto Rico addresses, either. Their form won't categorize it either as a state or a country. It's hardly the only website that does that, but it's incredibly annoying.