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.
-$Zero...
the best thing about being a writer -- part XX
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/8e6d9abbecaefa59
How can they be detractors unless they read your stuff first? Tell me
how I can find some of these, um, detractors.
DB
if you were writing brave honest effective stuff, you'd be asking much
different questions.
-$Zero...
real writers don't give a flying fuck what real writers do.
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/9cc5f4136c5d8c3b
Check with de John Deere
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
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.
-$Zero...
saying Yes. saying Yes to what is best.
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/597b4691961fb7a8
Then you are guaranteed lifetime employment.
DB
yeah, but i took an entrepreneurial vow of unemployment.
anyway, selling stuff is easy.
i could sell shit and piss to a plumber.
it's all in the presentation, and the packaging.
how to get people to buy stuff is no great mystery.
nor is it much of a challenge.
-$Zero...
who said anything about romanticism?
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.writing/msg/967e4813de4b830b