Because I like talking to myself:

I decided that, after Word decided to become my dire enemy, I downloaded ABIWord, which was recommended by a few other writers after I'd googled for advice on how good it was. Thus far the program works pretty well, although it doesn't have all the bells and whistles of Word. Most of those bells and whistles went largely unused by me anyway. Seriously, all a writer needs to be able to do is type the story, spellcheck the story, get word count, save it in a decent format for distribution, add headers and that's about it.
ABIWord does all that and therefore I am happy.

I finally broke down and did a spreadsheet of everything I have out currently and discovered I'm less of a lazy ass than I thought I was. Five stories out, one up for consideration possibly and yet another I got notified was being forwarded from slush to the main editor. No, I'm not easily googled, nor do I have a clique of special friends who will publish me and not pay me for it, but I finally decided that my success depends solely on me, and not everyone else. I'm the one who has to face the scary white space each day and channel the muse. I don't need the large circle of friends to pat me on the back or give me virtual hugs. I have a small circle who I know will give me the kick in the ass that I need to get over my self pity and do what I love to do best: WRITE.

Somedays, that's all a writer can hope for.

While I'm at it, shout outs to those friends:

Ms. Lori(L. Lynn Young), who sold a short story to Brutarian.

Yvonne Pronovost, who sold a short story to Aiofe's Kiss.

S.A Parnam (Angelina), who's story 'Elfbane' appears in Issue 4 of Neo-Opsis Magazine.

You go ladies!