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Offline jeno

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So You Want to Write a Novel
« on: January 24, 2011, 11:27:20 PM »
So You Want to Write a Novel - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9fc-crEFDw

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Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
« Reply #1 on: 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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Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
« Reply #2 on: 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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Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
« Reply #3 on: 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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Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
« Reply #4 on: 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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Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
« Reply #5 on: 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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Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
« 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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Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
« Reply #7 on: 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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Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
« Reply #8 on: 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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Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
« Reply #9 on: January 28, 2011, 11:29:48 PM »
I don't get it.  What's so funny?

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Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
« Reply #10 on: 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!  :o
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Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
« Reply #11 on: 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. :P

Added: Oh, and I too have met people like that guy.
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Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
« Reply #12 on: January 31, 2011, 04:08:05 AM »
That was great!
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Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
« Reply #13 on: 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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Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
« Reply #14 on: February 26, 2011, 09:11:07 PM »
It's humbling, yeah. But if you want to be an author?

Do it anyway.  :D
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