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the best thing about being a writer -- part XXI

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$Zero

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May 17, 2009, 5:59:33 PM5/17/09
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the best thing about being a writer -- part XXI

it's crafting gems and allowing your detractors to make total fools of
themselves.

it's letting them display their pathetic petty bitterness, and
cowardice, and dishonesty.

word by word.

lame by lame.

while you sit back and enjoy the show.

-$Zero...

the best thing about being a writer -- part XX
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/8e6d9abbecaefa59

danger...@gmail.com

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May 17, 2009, 8:25:09 PM5/17/09
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On May 17, 2:59 pm, "$Zero" <zeroi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> the best thing about being a writer -- part XXI
>
> it's crafting gems and allowing your detractors to make total fools of
> themselves.

How can they be detractors unless they read your stuff first? Tell me
how I can find some of these, um, detractors.

DB

$Zero

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May 17, 2009, 9:10:17 PM5/17/09
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On May 17, 8:25 pm, "dangerousb...@gmail.com"

if you were writing brave honest effective stuff, you'd be asking much
different questions.

-$Zero...

real writers don't give a flying fuck what real writers do.
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/9cc5f4136c5d8c3b

Mark

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May 17, 2009, 9:20:38 PM5/17/09
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On May 17, 8:25 pm, "dangerousb...@gmail.com"
<dangerousb...@gmail.com> wrote:

Check with de John Deere

danger...@gmail.com

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May 18, 2009, 12:33:17 AM5/18/09
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On May 17, 6:10 pm, "$Zero" <zeroi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> if you were writing brave honest effective stuff, you'd be asking much
> different questions.

Hog swill. The world is full of people writing brave, honest,
effective stuff, and 98% of it will go unread except by indulgent
relatives.

I work with writers who are a hundred times better than I am, whose
work gives me goosebumps when I read it, but every time they sell a
book -- I mean a single copy of a book, it's celebrated like a major
victory.

DB

$Zero

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May 18, 2009, 10:07:43 PM5/18/09
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On May 18, 12:33 am, "dangerousb...@gmail.com"

<dangerousb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 17, 6:10 pm, "$Zero" <zeroi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > if you were writing brave honest effective stuff, you'd be asking
> > much different questions.
>
> Hog swill. The world is full of people writing brave, honest,
> effective stuff,

now _that's_ hog swill.

more than likely.

> and 98% of it will go unread except by indulgent relatives.

if it were true, that would be sad, and tragic.

> I work with writers who are a hundred times better than I am, whose
> work gives me goosebumps when I read it, but every time they sell a
> book -- I mean a single copy of a book, it's celebrated like a major
> victory.

selling a book is child's play.

having people recommend your book to people they love is something to
be proud of.

-$Zero...

saying Yes. saying Yes to what is best.
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/597b4691961fb7a8

danger...@gmail.com

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May 19, 2009, 2:04:27 AM5/19/09
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On May 18, 7:07 pm, "$Zero" <zeroi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> selling a book is child's play.

Then you are guaranteed lifetime employment.

DB

$Zero

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May 19, 2009, 3:37:57 AM5/19/09
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On May 19, 2:04 am, "dangerousb...@gmail.com"

yeah, but i took an entrepreneurial vow of unemployment.

anyway, selling stuff is easy.

i could sell shit and piss to a plumber.

it's all in the presentation, and the packaging.

how to get people to buy stuff is no great mystery.

nor is it much of a challenge.

-$Zero...

who said anything about romanticism?
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/967e4813de4b830b

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