I'm Not That Sneaky

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This month I'm a co-host! The other awesome co-hosts are Ronel Janse van Vuuren, Natalie Aguirre, and  Olga Godim! Be sure to give them a visit!

This month's optional question is: What is the most unethical practice in the publishing industry?

I'm not too knowledgeable about the ins and outs of the publishing industry (that would require finishing a book in order for it to be published...) so I'm sure there are quite a few practices that I'm not aware of. I guess the worst one to me would be plagiarism. Stealing another person's work and passing it off as your own just seems unfathomable to me. On top of being unethical, it's just lazy. If you don't want to actually write something, or can't for whatever reason, then just don't! Maybe writing isn't for you. 

Hey, I've gone a few years now not really being able to write anything and I've never considered plagiarism. I honestly wouldn't even know how to pull it off even if I wanted to. At my job we recently had someone steal money out of a coworker's locker, and all I could think was, even if I wanted to do that, I'd be too afraid of getting caught! I'm just not that sneaky! 

I'll leave the unethical activities to the characters in my stories...

I know I *just* had a vacation a few weeks ago, but I start another one tomorrow! And it's a good old fashioned staycation. Do I plan on doing any writing? Well...probably not. I mean if the mood strikes me I'll certainly go with it, but I don't foresee that happening anytime soon. 

I plan on spending a lot of time getting my new apartment more organized, watching some of the dozens of movies on my many watchlists, and maybe if we're lucky, get back into some reading. I know that not reading any books certainly doesn't help me start writing again, so I figure that will be a nice first step. No real pressure. 

I had a great time in NYC as well! I had mac and cheese on pancakes, got spit on by my favorite actor (iykyk), and pet lots of kitties at our favorite cat cafe. Three days went by way too fast! And I got my chocolate martini, of course.