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Comic for 6th Sept 2012; I always bring a book too!
Topic Started: Sep 6 2012, 06:19 AM (409 Views)
catnipsandwich
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I love Ben's choice of book. Feed is brilliant. This is all.

How was he planning to scare off dingoes though?
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catnipsandwich
Sep 6 2012, 06:19 AM
How was he planning to scare off dingoes though?
Wave a snake in their face.
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catnipsandwich
Sep 6 2012, 06:19 AM
I love Ben's choice of book. Feed is brilliant. This is all.

How was he planning to scare off dingoes though?
Animals can often (normally?) see ghosts. He could appear as something that predates on dingoes - which apparently boils down to humans with guns.
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Sep 6 2012, 05:00 AM
... Marlowe and Kurtz ...
will Speedy break a mirror (as part of a whole prepatory montage) in his hotel room before he goes all native?

Movie not book reference. I've read the book more recently than seeing the movie but that's the imagery that sticks.
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djheydt
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"Mira Grant" is a pseud of Seanan McGuire, who's a long-time friend and current co-worker of my daughter's.
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"Mira Grant" is a pseud of Seanan McGuire, who's a long-time friend and current co-worker of my daughter's.


I envy you by proxy. It would be so great to be able to sit down and talk shop with another writer, but I just don't run in the right social circles I guess.
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Sep 7 2012, 12:03 AM
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"Mira Grant" is a pseud of Seanan McGuire, who's a long-time friend and current co-worker of my daughter's.


I envy you by proxy. It would be so great to be able to sit down and talk shop with another writer, but I just don't run in the right social circles I guess.
You could go to conventions. Worldcon is just over, but there are local and regional conventions practically every weekend. Certainly every three-day weekend. You might google "science fiction conventions [your location]" and see what you get.

I used to go to conventions and I used to write, but I'm getting too old & tired.
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Chrysophase2003
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You could go to conventions.


Trust me, I'd love to. Don't mean to bring you down, but I can't. I'm disabled. Can't leave my house for long. My cancer treatments took care of the cancer, but caused several immune disorders. I've got about fifteen years or so, or that's what the doctors think. Most people aren't diagnosed with what I've got until their late forties, and I only turned 28 this year. In the meantime, I'm trying to become a writer because a) it's always been my dreamjob, and b) it's the only thing I can conceivably do from a sickbed. I know how long a shot it is, but when it's that or go homeless for sure, you gotta bank on the longshot I suppose.
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djheydt
Sep 6 2012, 08:57 PM
"Mira Grant" is a pseud of Seanan McGuire, who's a long-time friend and current co-worker of my daughter's.
Neat! That is such an amazing coincidence. When I picked that book, I just went for the zombie fiction with the best reader reviews on Amazon. I didn't even know "Mira Grant" was a pseudonym until yesterday morning, when a reader let me know she had tweeted about the comic. Please thank her for me the next time you see her?

Chrysophase2003
Sep 6 2012, 08:57 PM
It would be so great to be able to sit down and talk shop with another writer, but I just don't run in the right social circles I guess.


I'm extremely sorry to hear about your situation. I suppose the bright side is that there has never been a better time for writers to connect with each other remotely. There are a ton of free communities where people do nothing but discuss the craft of writing. Just with a quick Google search, I found:

Critique Circle - Very highly rated
Critters - SciFi oriented, if this is your genre
Otherworlds - Same.

And there are always ways to write for profit. People will pay you to write blogs, reviews of products you use... because the online environment is content-based and is constantly churning towards new-new-NEW! there will always be a demand for new content. Just do the research to find credible employers. The resources are out there: the caveat being that if you cannot find these resources on your own, this might not be the right line of work for you.

Edited for formatting.
Edited by Otter, Sep 7 2012, 01:18 PM.
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Chrysophase2003
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I suppose the bright side is that there has never been a better time for writers to connect with each other remotely.


Thank you for the links, Otter, and the sympathy. I've been working toward the goal of being a novelist for the past five years, and in that time I've had some moderate successes for a self-taught and complete literary unknown. 14 short story publications in semipro magazines and anthologies, though I've officially sworn off that now that I realize just how few people bother reading literary magazines. (Some editors. Yeesh. Ego much?) I've also worked as a freelance writer, but found it to be a bit of a crapshoot. About 1/3 of the time I was stiffed on the bill, and the remainder of the time lowballed by content mills. Since I had no formal training, I suppose I should be surprised I found work at all. Got fired from my last job because so many "experts" with PhDs in various fields were out of jobs and looking for work that they didn't need some kid with access to a decent library anymore. Since I didn't really know anyone in that business and had no leads, it kinda left a bad taste in my mouth. I know. I'm stuck in the last century in that respect.

So now I run my own small business proofreading and copyediting books for authors who choose to self-publish. Prior to Print Proofreading. It earns enough to pay for the domain name most months. I'm good at my job, but terrible at advertising and socializing (major social anxiety, hyper rational personality), so getting my name out there is difficult since a part of me insists the quality of my work should speak for itself. I know, backasswards, right?

I wrote a novel several years ago (Of the dozens I started and dropped because life happened) which got excellent responses from several New York literary agents. But they all felt that I tried to pack too much into one book, so I've been told if I can pull off a series they'll very likely represent me. The problem is that since the story takes place in 13th century England, Sicily, Cyprus, and Syria-Palestine, I've been spending the last three years researching and figuring out the plot for the expanded story. (The immune disorder makes my eyes burn like onion juice is in them, so I can only use them a few hours a day) Hopefully I'll get to start writing it soon.

Writer's groups are helpful up to a point, and I'll definitely look up the ones you've posted. But, in my experience, there comes a point where you've progressed as far as you can go in them. I hate to sound like a snob, but you can only learn so much from other unpublished writers. Then you're either lucky enough to correspond with a commercial novelist or take a terrifying leap into the unknown. I'm resigned to doing the latter.

In any case, thanks so much for commenting, and I'll always be happy to follow your incredible work. I can do plots and conspiracies quite well, but human interaction is a mystery to me, so it's a pleasure to see it done. Kinda like watching a magic show. :)
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djheydt
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Sep 7 2012, 07:59 AM
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You could go to conventions.


Trust me, I'd love to. Don't mean to bring you down, but I can't. I'm disabled. Can't leave my house for long. My cancer treatments took care of the cancer, but caused several immune disorders. I've got about fifteen years or so, or that's what the doctors think. Most people aren't diagnosed with what I've got until their late forties, and I only turned 28 this year. In the meantime, I'm trying to become a writer because a) it's always been my dreamjob, and b) it's the only thing I can conceivably do from a sickbed. I know how long a shot it is, but when it's that or go homeless for sure, you gotta bank on the longshot I suppose.
I sympathize. I don't do conventions any more either, except the one that my husband and I help run every February. All I have is CFS, which isn't life-threatening, but makes me awfully tired. So I spend a lot of time in bed too; my computer is right by my bed and I type in most of the pre-registrations. For the next con, I'm going to be running pre-registered pickups (which mostly involves being on hand in case of any questions or disputes) from a chaise longue. :)

The links Otter gave you are good; check them out.

Meanwhile, if you want to bounce writing ideas off me, my edress is djheydt AT gmail DOT com.

And hang in there; in fifteen years, anything might happen.

(Email address edited by Otter due to rampant robo-crawler action in this forum)
Edited by Otter, Sep 8 2012, 07:31 PM.
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Chrysophase2003
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Thanks, djheydt! I may take you up on your offer, if I can get my ideas coherent enough to put down in writing. :)

Any objections to looking at rough drafts? Short stuff, of course.
If you can't live without me, why aren't you dead yet?

I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.

If God wants all the credit, he's getting all the blame.
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djheydt
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Sep 8 2012, 10:16 PM
Thanks, djheydt! I may take you up on your offer, if I can get my ideas coherent enough to put down in writing. :)

Any objections to looking at rough drafts? Short stuff, of course.
No problem.

My rough drafts tend to be skeletons, fleshed out on the second pass. :)
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