My coworkers hear it all the time and are profoundly uninterested me: Okay, this isn't going to work. I have these characters drinking tea again. They need to do something else immediately. These words are chopped. Two hundred gone. And let's see, the confrontation is coming up soon. Any suggestions? also me: Oh. My. God. Why bother? No one reads your books. No one thinks they're anything more than adequate. You can't seem to change your style to fit what people want. You're old news. OLD. NEWS. Stale old voice. There's no point in writing yet another book that no one will wants-- me: How about if they finally talk instead of just hinting around? Yeah, and maybe that guy will say what's been on his mind since chapter two. also me: Jesus. So boring. Talk, talk, talk. You know that your-- me: How about if they-- also me: --you know your books are worthless because people want conflict and angst. They don't want to read another book wit...
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ReplyDeleteTime to adjust your settings to enable that spam-blocking feature (where folks have to type nonsense words to post).
ReplyDeleteI'm 200 baked beans tall. And, thanks to the joys of sugar substitutes, I smell like it too.
That was a relatively benign spam and it did have an interesting link giving information about the flood http://www.nola.com/
ReplyDeletestill spam is spam. And the connection to advertising and tragedy is just too rotten. Kind of like the CNN Your Hurricane Headquarters. . . the whole kicky graphics and cute titles thing is slick and nasty.
The flood makes me so angry at the government I haven't trusted myself to blog about it. I feel horrible about the whole thing. Just seems like the governments (local on up to federal) don't give a damn about the poor.
ReplyDeleteNow the feds have apportioned a chunk of money for the relief, and all I can think is, how much of it will actually go to the relief, and how much will get stolen by interest groups, contractors snapping up contracts noncompetitively, etc.?
Anyway, yeah, you put words to what I was feeling (re that spam). It seemed like the spammer was taking advantage of the tragedy.
Okay, I’m 17,100 printed pages of inkjet paper high. And, um, speaking of “high” Kate…what have you been up to, my dear? And are you sharing? LOL A most intriguing and unusual post, indeed. ;-)
ReplyDeletePlease stop by my blog when you get a chance, Kate, and read my Best & Worst Advice for Writers article. I’d really love to have you share your advice for aspiring writers!