Post by SEDstar on Apr 15, 2024 11:10:35 GMT -5
I sometimes actually take advice.
I mean, its rare, but it happens slightly more often than lightning strikes.
Last time I took advice? DOC suggested I get back into programming for the heck of it.
I did.
And, it was really cool. Made a lot of neat stuff.
but... once or three times, I heard "SED? why don't you write a book"
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I've written them before, but never finished one, or... didn't feel it "worked"
with not a lot of other options, I ended up getting fairly serious with three different projects.
the "fictional proto-vikings" storyline? Isn't finished, although I havent screwed it up yet, but... not done.
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finished the other two projects. Now, by "finished" I mean I'm done writing on both.
I have to keep reading, proofing, and editing until I can't find anything OCD werong with the text.
The one.... "SMILEY". (tag line, "you can't find what you aren't looking for")
takes a (highly) fictitious stab at using the "smileyface killer" as the vehicle.
This absolute PIG of a text, came out at 1853 pages.
I have it chopped up into about 8 "couple hundred page" units.
Major characters, some might recognize?
Speedy
Rob
Sky
Minor chararacters, again, you might have heard the names before.
DOC H
heck. Even "picklehead" makes a sub-minor appearance. He donates working on the game freezers for the "RLB long range"
I went nuts. sub-plots are novel length, themselves.
don;t worry. all "fan fiction" characters from screen names here? none of you should be irked at your character and how its used. You are all "good guys" and straight.
Hm. The "other one".
1350 pages. Chopped into 3 books.
"The third time is the charm" trilogy.
"The good stuff"... "the bad stuff"... "the karma"
550 pages, 450pages, 350 pages respectively.
first book? 550 pages of pure, unadulterated, straight out erotica.
Why? Because sex sells.
second book... just when you think, its the same thing coming again? Its not.
it turns straight into "noir", while keeping the erotic content
third book... dispenses with teh erotic and goes into "heavy noir".
functions as a "prequel" to the SMILEY series.
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whiners and pearl clutchers? need not apply.
I don't screw around.
foul language, strong sexual situations, politically incorrect as anything.
in particular, the heavy noir of the third time trilogy?
Took me a while to not turn my own stomach, at some of the lengthy descriptions of the crime noir.
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my apologies, in advance... to any real life state police or FBI here...
I just made that sh@t up as I went along. I am *real* sure? neither the state police, nor the FBI actually are organized or work like this.
I *will* issue another disclaimer. Perhaps when i said "politically incorrect"? That doesnt begin to cover it.
the "smiley" series... by the time you get near the end? Well, there's a reason I'm going to use a pen name.
that said, there's 2 marketing decisions in play here.
one... sex sells, end of story.
two... every book and movie I see or read? is all "liberaled up" and all preachy about being liberal.
trust me here... I went the EXACT opposite way on that count. You have been warned.
the marketing decision on that, is that "controversy" can get you noticed, even if in a bad way.
bad publicity, is better than no publicity.
PS - for those that might know of such things?
and this applies only to the smiley series...
when i say "politically incorrect"? I'm meaning to say, that any denizens of a...
"certain Korean Knitting" (infamous) image board, who would instantly recognize whoever wrote it, as being a fellow "/POL/tard"
anyone offended? Well, that was pretty much the whole point.
If everyone else is trying not to ofend? I went the other way, and went out of my way to gratuitously offend.
PPS - none of the screen name characters? engage in anything over the top, in the way of being offensive.
so? Its on me.
I need my head examined, writig over 3000 pages for two projects, but...
*shrugs*
go big, or go home, right?
yeah, I know. I dont know what the hell I'm doing, so... I fully expect this to be about like when I had my music on download...
3 years later? I had all of 7 downloads.
LMAO
I'll be ofline in 5 minutes, dont know when I'll be back again.
just wanted to check in, and say "i did it".
(even though it wont succeed)
I mean, its rare, but it happens slightly more often than lightning strikes.
Last time I took advice? DOC suggested I get back into programming for the heck of it.
I did.
And, it was really cool. Made a lot of neat stuff.
but... once or three times, I heard "SED? why don't you write a book"
==========================
I've written them before, but never finished one, or... didn't feel it "worked"
with not a lot of other options, I ended up getting fairly serious with three different projects.
the "fictional proto-vikings" storyline? Isn't finished, although I havent screwed it up yet, but... not done.
=============
finished the other two projects. Now, by "finished" I mean I'm done writing on both.
I have to keep reading, proofing, and editing until I can't find anything OCD werong with the text.
The one.... "SMILEY". (tag line, "you can't find what you aren't looking for")
takes a (highly) fictitious stab at using the "smileyface killer" as the vehicle.
This absolute PIG of a text, came out at 1853 pages.
I have it chopped up into about 8 "couple hundred page" units.
Major characters, some might recognize?
Speedy
Rob
Sky
Minor chararacters, again, you might have heard the names before.
DOC H
heck. Even "picklehead" makes a sub-minor appearance. He donates working on the game freezers for the "RLB long range"
I went nuts. sub-plots are novel length, themselves.
don;t worry. all "fan fiction" characters from screen names here? none of you should be irked at your character and how its used. You are all "good guys" and straight.
Hm. The "other one".
1350 pages. Chopped into 3 books.
"The third time is the charm" trilogy.
"The good stuff"... "the bad stuff"... "the karma"
550 pages, 450pages, 350 pages respectively.
first book? 550 pages of pure, unadulterated, straight out erotica.
Why? Because sex sells.
second book... just when you think, its the same thing coming again? Its not.
it turns straight into "noir", while keeping the erotic content
third book... dispenses with teh erotic and goes into "heavy noir".
functions as a "prequel" to the SMILEY series.
---------------------------------------------
whiners and pearl clutchers? need not apply.
I don't screw around.
foul language, strong sexual situations, politically incorrect as anything.
in particular, the heavy noir of the third time trilogy?
Took me a while to not turn my own stomach, at some of the lengthy descriptions of the crime noir.
------------------------------------------
my apologies, in advance... to any real life state police or FBI here...
I just made that sh@t up as I went along. I am *real* sure? neither the state police, nor the FBI actually are organized or work like this.
I *will* issue another disclaimer. Perhaps when i said "politically incorrect"? That doesnt begin to cover it.
the "smiley" series... by the time you get near the end? Well, there's a reason I'm going to use a pen name.
that said, there's 2 marketing decisions in play here.
one... sex sells, end of story.
two... every book and movie I see or read? is all "liberaled up" and all preachy about being liberal.
trust me here... I went the EXACT opposite way on that count. You have been warned.
the marketing decision on that, is that "controversy" can get you noticed, even if in a bad way.
bad publicity, is better than no publicity.
PS - for those that might know of such things?
and this applies only to the smiley series...
when i say "politically incorrect"? I'm meaning to say, that any denizens of a...
"certain Korean Knitting" (infamous) image board, who would instantly recognize whoever wrote it, as being a fellow "/POL/tard"
anyone offended? Well, that was pretty much the whole point.
If everyone else is trying not to ofend? I went the other way, and went out of my way to gratuitously offend.
PPS - none of the screen name characters? engage in anything over the top, in the way of being offensive.
so? Its on me.
I need my head examined, writig over 3000 pages for two projects, but...
*shrugs*
go big, or go home, right?
yeah, I know. I dont know what the hell I'm doing, so... I fully expect this to be about like when I had my music on download...
3 years later? I had all of 7 downloads.
LMAO
I'll be ofline in 5 minutes, dont know when I'll be back again.
just wanted to check in, and say "i did it".
(even though it wont succeed)