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

Required watching.
Title: Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
Post by: Enjorous 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.
Title: Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
Post by: Starbeam 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.
Title: Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
Post by: LizW65 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..."
Title: Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
Post by: Mickey Finn 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 ;)
Title: Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
Post by: Ren 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
Title: Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
Post by: jeno on January 26, 2011, 09:13:41 PM
*shrugs* The same chance as anyone else looking to publish for the first time.
Title: Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
Post by: Enjorous 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.
Title: Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
Post by: Mickey Finn 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.
Title: Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
Post by: SuperflyMD on January 28, 2011, 11:29:48 PM
I don't get it.  What's so funny?

;)
Title: Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
Post by: Breandan 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
Title: Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
Post by: The Neuromancer 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.
Title: Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
Post by: OZ on January 31, 2011, 04:08:05 AM
That was great!
Title: Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
Post by: Lanodantheon 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.
Title: Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
Post by: jeno on February 26, 2011, 09:11:07 PM
It's humbling, yeah. But if you want to be an author?

Do it anyway.  :D
Title: Re: So You Want to Write a Novel
Post by: Breandan on February 27, 2011, 05:25:19 PM
Basic axioms for prospective authors I have figured out over the years-