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Open Question: How do i stop competing with people and just do my best? and more... Open Question: How do i stop competing with people and just do my best?Recently a lot of crap has happened to me. A friend with mental health problems attacked me, i'm trying to get my writing to take off and working on my novel. Anyway my sister has finished her novel, but this is what i'm finding annoying. She's just come up with a concept for a new novel about schizophrenia, when she knows that i'm adding the concept of schizophrenia and multiple personality syndrome to my novel due to my recent experience. She read her idea to me and i said to her but you know i'm adding that concept to my first novel which i havent finished yet. And she said well i didn't realize i guess things just trickled down.'how convenient.' and she said that her boyfriend used to have schizo so she'd always wanted to write about it. And i was irritated and she went a bit silent but i know her she's still gonna do it. I find that a little unnerving because she's got all the contacts in play for her novel, her mentor is a writer and is in close affiliation with publishers and agents and has already said she'd set my sister up. How do i just focus on my work and not get competitive as i have none of those contacts in play? But i doubt were the only people that have had experiences with schizophrenia, i love my sister and we've always been very close, but she's as sensitive to her work as i am. My only advantage really is that it's not her first novel. I can't help but feel this is out of order. For most of my life she's been telling me that i was copying her. What happened to me wasn't a little thing it was a big thing. I basically got attacked by my best friend who had schizophrenia and heard voices but she never did anything about it.I cried to my sister about it in confidence as well because i was putting on a brave face for everyone else, what do i do about the situation with my sister. I feel like she's kind of lojacked my idea ?I'm even thinking of using a pseudonym (a fake name) for publishing because of fear of comparison and i never thought about it before, i've always been happy to use my name. What do i do? Open Question: Shirt.woot.com confirmation e-mail problems?My boyfriend sent me a few shirts that he wanted from shirt.woot.com in an e-mail. Now i understand they aren't exactly the best company to go to as far as demand goes, but it was what he wanted and I had nothing else to get him. So i picked 2 shirts, and went through the process of filling in the information, but when it was time to confirm the order i left the windows open to sit because I wasn't sure if I had the size right and needed to wait until my boyfriend got out of class before I could ask him. An hour later I had the correct size and confirmed the order. Well it took me to their home page, so I wasn't sure if the order went through. 2 hours later i got an e-mail welcoming me to their site for signing up, but i never got any confirmation e-mails for my order. It is now 2 days later and still no e-mail. People have told me sometimes the confirmation e-mail takes forever...but I'm not sure it went through. So my question is, should I re-order the shirts? Or should I wait a bit longer for my e-mails? More Recent Articles
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