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jeno
Posty McPostington
Posts: 1357
So You Want to Write a Novel
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January 24, 2011, 11:27:20 PM »
So You Want to Write a Novel -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9fc-crEFDw
Required watching.
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Enjorous
Seriously?
Posts: 12664
Prince of the Gutter since 2010
Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
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January 24, 2011, 11:31:41 PM »
"I wish I could kill you and get away with it."
I've met people like that guy.
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Quote from: Chiroptera on December 08, 2010, 08:37:54 PM
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Starbeam
Posty McPostington
Posts: 5722
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Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
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January 24, 2011, 11:58:46 PM »
I've seen so many authors/editors/agents post that to Twitter. Quite a few of them with Enjorous's comment, too.
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LizW65
Posty McPostington
Posts: 2093
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Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
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January 25, 2011, 03:04:44 PM »
This was linked on Smart Bitches/Trashy Books a week or so ago--very funny stuff. I said at the time that it reminded me a little of the Dire Straits song
Money for Nothing
: "That ain't working; that's the way to do it/ Get your money for nothing and your chicks for free..."
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Posty McPostington
Posts: 8382
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Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
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January 26, 2011, 06:56:28 PM »
This.
Is. Awesome.
I want to get an Ipad just so I can take this to conventions when I'm on a panel about writing
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Ren
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Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
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January 26, 2011, 08:59:19 PM »
*snicker*
but it does bring up an interesting point, if publishers are publishing fewer novels, what chance does a new author have?...8P
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jeno
Posty McPostington
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Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
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Reply #6 on:
January 26, 2011, 09:13:41 PM »
*shrugs* The same chance as anyone else looking to publish for the first time.
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Enjorous
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Posts: 12664
Prince of the Gutter since 2010
Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
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January 26, 2011, 10:37:40 PM »
Yup, it's the old story of out running a bear. You don't have to outrun the bear, just the guy next to you.
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Quote from: Chiroptera on December 08, 2010, 08:37:54 PM
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Posty McPostington
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Moderator, Thematic Consultant for Comic
Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
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January 27, 2011, 02:40:44 AM »
Well, you have less of a chance since everyone tossed out slush piles, but it's been that way for a while now.
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The Universe is made of stories, not of atoms. -Muriel Rukeyser
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http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00W8FE3FS
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SuperflyMD
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Posts: 23
Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
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January 28, 2011, 11:29:48 PM »
I don't get it. What's so funny?
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Breandan
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Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
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January 30, 2011, 03:53:01 PM »
wow. I don't even know what to say. It's not the video, its that so many of the comments there and here seem to indicate that this sort of Don-Quixote-inspired future victim of Literary Darwinism is
COMMON
!
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The Neuromancer
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Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
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January 31, 2011, 01:39:57 AM »
Lol. I grew out of the "Best Seller Writer" phase in my early teens. I'd like to write a novel but at least I know what it takes to do it now.
Added: Oh, and I too have met people like that guy.
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OZ
Posty McPostington
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Great and Terrible
Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
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January 31, 2011, 04:08:05 AM »
That was great!
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Lanodantheon
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Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
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February 26, 2011, 07:46:21 PM »
That video makes me feel.....guilty.
But it is very humbling for anyone wanting to seriously write.
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jeno
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Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
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February 26, 2011, 09:11:07 PM »
It's humbling, yeah. But if you want to be an author?
Do it anyway.
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