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Huh? After that comment I was expecting some rape or murder fantasy or something equally unwelcome amongst polite company, but your story didn't cross any lines that I noticed while skimming through it.... Also, banning and thread-pulling, acceptable. I'm pushing the limits, here, I get it.
I believe a lot of children are born geniuses - then 'education' beats that silliness right out of them.Then the miracle happened.
My little son began to play the piano. Not play ON it. He played the theme from "Dr. Zhivago". His grandma had sung that song to him. "What now, my love?..."
then 'education' beats that silliness right out of them.
Yabbut -- CJ needs to write his first novel. I have offered to edit it gratis.
Hey @Casey Jones -- Post the other one about driving the train. Post it here.
Quit being a pussy. Just do it. Stop overthinkingGotta dig that one out.
In a few hours.
Given the weather, the season, and yada yada issues...I may just get started with something for you to critique, Walt.
This is something akin to bungee jumping, for me. Had so many various forms of misstepping, in other lines of work/activity, it's hard to get motivated. But, dull hot rage, and boredom, seem to be doing it.
Should I post the whole mess? Or just the partial I posted elsewhere.Yabbut -- CJ needs to write his first novel. I have offered to edit it gratis.
Hey @Casey Jones -- Post the other one about driving the train. Post it here.
Musta misst it...?Didn't you see the whole essay at GIM2?
"A song of the Harvest Moon." How a beta-male of long ago, became a sigma...the hard way. Recalling bad times while wrecking trains.
Since I was looking, I have the link ready.Musta misst it...?
Oh, no no no. You misunderstand, @Unca Walt . They won't have the ability to contribute - only read and comment.CJ -- I honestly dunno whether to be stunned, amused to the point of giggling, astonished at what this old bastage can recognize as himself forty years younger, or just suddenly anxious to pass on a piece of life changing advice/knowledge for an author.
One thing I will say: I am not in the least sanguine about a blog-novel, co-written by committee of paying guests. It even sounds... off.
There is one crucial concept you must understand: YOU must write the novel. COMPLETE. You must have an editor -- for every human on earth is blind to his own mistakes. YOU must write the novel... the whole novel.
This does not mean you cannot communicate ideas. To the contrary, editing is extremely helpful in building a rapport with your readers.
So here is my writing advice. Read it deep:
You do not have a BB-gun, you have a Ma Deuce.
Feel more than free to build your characters with the exact schit that makes them so important to the scene/chapter/novel. People do not want comic book characters (which is what you will get with a committee-written work). It will be campfire soup, a bit thrown in here and there to please everyone, but instead of being spicy and unique... it is a blender product just barely swallowed.
Let me tell you from years ahead of you: If a reader sees a Snidely Whiplash misanthrope through other characters' eyes, and through those others eyes he recognizes himself -- he hides from the concept and won't/can't go near it.
Do not allow your own mind to censor you. That would be a bad thing.
can't find ANY of the old place onlineSince I was looking, I have the link ready.
https://www.goldismoney2.com/threads/anyone-open-for-some-reading.585747/#post-2541117
Since most people here are from GIM, no point in wasting bandwidth. It's a sixteen-page short-story...two days after it happened, I wrote a more-condensed bit of it for the NewsMax board readers. Got some positive feedback...
Then, ten years ago, expanded it a bit, with the idea of selling it to a magazine somewhere. No interest.
But no point in cluttering up the InterWebZ with the same-old same-old.
can't find ANY of the old place online
If by popular acclaim, I can feed a rough draft of the prologue of my project, up here...
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