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crystalwizard
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I just let go with both barrels at a reader on one of the Amazon fantasy forum threads. Seems a series she would like finished, isn't, and she had her nose in the air about the author. After she berated the author for not finishing the series, insulted her and implied that the author must be rich, then she had to gall to almost demand that the author hire someone to finish the series for her..

I lost it. I lit into her then ending by telling her that if she wanted the series finished so bad, and she thought it was so easy to do, then SHE should contact the author and offer to ghost write the final book.
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CW, you seem to forget something: writing, like waiting tables, is easy. Anyone can do it. They simply choose to do other things, but if they wanted to be a writer (waiter) they could. And they'd be great at it, too, even with no experience.


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Yeah, I forgot. And every writer is rich too... just swimming in the money, selling millions of copies of their book while lounging next to their pool.

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crystalwizard said...
Yeah, I forgot. And every writer is rich too... just swimming in the money, selling millions of copies of their book while lounging next to their pool.


Couldn't be that the series was dropped because it wasn't grossing enough for the publisher or anything like that. *cough*

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oh certainly not. Publishers NEVER do that!

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  		   Posted 7/22/2008 8:42 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Writin' not be no real work. Writin' be nuttin. Diggin' ditches, now dat be real work!
 
So dat autor better just gets off dere lazy butt an' get a writin"!
 
But, but, but, now writin' ain't no way ta makes a livin', neither. Too many starvin' artists out dere.
 
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  		   Posted 7/23/2008 10:59 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Somewhat? :-)


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Rob Santa said...
Somewhat? :-)

Most members of my dysfunctional clan do actually speak a bit better than that, unless they're so drunk that their speech is horribly slurred.  Like, for instance, when my mother made the accusation that I "bwed my glandmother dwy". My darling mother claimed she didn't have her teeth in that night, but her belligerent attitude told a different story.
 
And my family never actually said anything about "ditch diggin", they only implied that wrting and drawing weren't real jobs. However, I did receive a few "starving artist" comments. Of course, science wasn't a real job either. I don't know how many times I heard "what ya gonna do with a biology degree?".
 
Anyone wonder why I have nothing to do with those people?
 
 

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