tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674475728195095319.post5918687107644436007..comments2024-03-29T15:49:57.848+11:00Comments on The Adventurerer: Self indulgence.harryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10218346748576276702noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674475728195095319.post-2054821476937091272010-07-25T21:39:20.096+10:002010-07-25T21:39:20.096+10:00Yes, you should quit. You're a terrible writer...Yes, you should quit. You're a terrible writer. Hope that helps.<br /><br />Best,<br /><br />Fyodor<br /><br />P.S. sorry for the delayed comment - I assumed you'd already squibbed on your blog in a spinelessly girlish fashion.<br />P.P.S.N.B.F.T.W. mind you, my judgement is suspect, which is the only reason I read your blog, despite your writing being so godawful. Thought you'd get me on that one, didntcha? Sucked in.Fyodorhttp://alizaybak.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674475728195095319.post-9804955173578331602010-06-18T07:15:42.540+10:002010-06-18T07:15:42.540+10:00You could always retire, and then the book project...You could always retire, and then the book project becomes "writing my memoirs", and everybody nods wisely and you get to work on it without angst. Or pressure. Or indeed sales.Reinhardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03518707945938147135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674475728195095319.post-36821725280327466592010-06-16T16:50:17.218+10:002010-06-16T16:50:17.218+10:00Geez Harry got something against girls this week?Geez Harry got something against girls this week?Mindyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10634135486127575735noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674475728195095319.post-42356699894439120372010-06-15T15:10:00.096+10:002010-06-15T15:10:00.096+10:00Also, don't physically describe the female pro...Also, don't physically describe the female protagonist so that every drippy pimply teenage girl came effortless slide her own porky shape into the role.harryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10218346748576276702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674475728195095319.post-71736209612446467372010-06-12T01:36:32.776+10:002010-06-12T01:36:32.776+10:00Oh and also? If you want to sell a book? It shou...Oh and also? If you want to sell a book? It should be about a sexy vampire / witch / were-shark who has a torrid relationship with a vampire hunter / christian evangelist / pool boy. There should be violence, heaving breasts, and angst - not necessarily in that order. Its what they're wallpapering bookshops with these days, honest.anti obhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02853494819364588013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674475728195095319.post-29333638001497686602010-06-12T01:31:48.662+10:002010-06-12T01:31:48.662+10:00I've got a friend who wrote a pretty decent fa...I've got a friend who wrote a pretty decent fantasy novel, and my brother-in-law wrote an absolutely hilarious movie script which he started to work up into a novel; neither has had even the vaguest of hints at selling anything, much the less making a living out of it. My aunt had a couple of short stories published after 20-some (more?) years of trying - including one in the New Yorker - and said that finally breaking through was all about learning the way the game was played and getting a good agent, and nothing to do with any improvement in her writing. Its a hard road.<br /><br />Never read any of your novel stuff, but if your blog writing is any sample I'd guess its well-written and funny (which is not to say that there shouldn't be more of it!) But alas the quality of the work has only a passing acquaintance with its commercial success - even after you manage to get it published! I'd suggest that if you aren't doing it for the sheer joy of it at some point in the process (even if its grindingly hard work the rest of the time) then you're probably doing it for the wrong reasons.<br /><br />This does not preclude getting disgusted with the process occasionally, throwing a funk, and storming off to do something else for a bit. Thats just normal. Hope you _do_ keep writing, because one day I want to read the damn thing (and cadge lifts on your privately chartered Lear to book-signings in Rio...)anti obhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02853494819364588013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674475728195095319.post-87144517556812646302010-06-11T13:21:41.127+10:002010-06-11T13:21:41.127+10:00We don't all have to be ambitious.We don't all have to be ambitious.Zoehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01546885088503890394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3674475728195095319.post-63580748760069248002010-06-10T12:47:38.227+10:002010-06-10T12:47:38.227+10:00Have you seen Rick Stein's Colonial Adventures...Have you seen Rick Stein's Colonial Adventures? I know that's not what it's called but it's the premise of the show; he goes around the quainly referred-to Far East and clucks at the very very Eastern Easterners.<br />It's fantastic, all it needs is pith helmets and a Webley on a string.<br /><br /><i>c) What _else_ am I going to do for funnsies, really?</i><br /><br />BLOG MOAR PLZLiamhttp://stoush.net/noreply@blogger.com