Nicky’s got a new scheme for making money — increase his article count at Associated Content, gatekeeper of journalistic integrity.
Writer’s Insight my new video column at Associated Content. This will work up to the actual video I am going to produce in detail and upload it to there.
This means it finally dawned on our favorite “horor writr” that his rants on YouTube weren’t generating any income. Will Li’l Nicky be reporting any income from AC to the govenment?
I don’t have many articles there (well yet.) The ones I am going to have up are the ones that will kick in a few dents.
That’s proof that he intends to continue to upload a bunch of bullshit calculated to strike out at certain individuals. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
Video editorial accepted? Accepted? Doesn’t AC take any old crap?
That’s what I’ve heard. Since AC publishes five and six page rants from Pacione with little to no truth in them, I have to believe it.
Of course, its insistance that “articles” it publishes not be reprints, nor can be reprinted elsewhere, means that Pacione risks forfeiting his revenues if he does so.
Not like he’s capable of generate revenue off that drek.
http://shocklinesforum.yuku.com/topic/6445
That thing stretched onto a fifth page? That’s even more amazing than Hank making sense.
I’m really getting sick of Philbin stirring the shit with those ridiculous conspiracy theories. It’s doubtful that even he believes them. Yet, only a Nitwit continues to act so smarmy and smug long after being pwned by so many others.
*head desk* It’s just been one of those days.
Nick is so much of an idiot, that he thinks “Associated Content” is the same thing as “Associated Press.”
Nicky is proud of his originality? His characters are him or people he knows!
Mind you, I’ve never seen writing as shit as his.
As for that thread, for me it is summed up by tartarusrussell trying to actually debate, and being snubbed. Not sneering, not with an agenda, but he came and asked, and was prepared to listen, and offered thoughts, and was snubbed.
What is his hangup with fanfiction when he has written at least TWO fanfics, one of them based on The Crow by James O’Barr, which Nicky does NOT hold Copyright on?
Logic, wherefore art though? *headwall*
*thou
See, my brain has turned to mush melon.
THAT’S DIFFERENT KAREN!!! THAT’S ALL DIFFERENT AND YOU KNOW IT!!!
Like how when he posts burny-pissy videos, that’s a righteous smackdown but when someone else does it to something of his, it’s copyright rape. And how when he calls people or posts their info, it’s because he’s a regular joe who’s not afraid to say it how it is, but when someone else does it to him, they’re harrassing the family of a mental illness. Like how when we get published it’s because we’re part of the oral sex conspiracy, but when he can’t it isn’t because his writing is garbage.
It’s all totally different. Totally.
Wait, wait wait….
…there’s an oral sex conspiracy?
WHY WASN’T I NOTIFIED?!?!?!?!
You didn’t get that memo either, huh? I never find out about these things until later.
The industry’s darkest secret revealed.
Blowjobs and ….. *headdesk* I missed the memo.
OMG, see, I knew it all along!
In the meanwhile, he and I have been exchanging a few mild note-volleys over at DA, though I’m sure he will hide all my comments.
If he hides anymore comments he’s gonna have nothing but those obnoxious green blocks all over.
No worries, he deletes all my comments on his wordpress blog.
The cullingal conspiracy.
Quick, to the shocklines forums! The world must know!
You assholes are contributing to a member of the Aryan Nation that fucker is a member of the White People’s Party. You fuckers are going to contribute to someone who takes part in Nazi party in Sweden?
We hit Godwin’s after only 20 comments.
Utilizing a well established archetype or story model isn’t fan fiction. It’s fan fiction when you write a story for fun about a character(s) that someone else has invented – like say I write a story about how Angel and Buffy go to a vampire slayer conference, run into Blade, and find out that Buffy had a little fling with Blade while Angel was in LA.
Awkward.
Anyway, to my best knowledge, that’s fan fiction. Utilizing genre conventions – even if cliched – is not.
(pssst … Kevin … that IS what I do … it isn’t ALL that I do, the fanfic … these days I don’t even think it comprises the majority of my written works … but the truth is that I AM a dirty fanficcer)
Oh! This may sound silly, but do you mean like fan fic for fan websites, or you actually get contracted to carry on stories of established characters in like – novelizations and book tie-ins?
And I don’t have anything against fan fic, either.
Kevin, most fanficcers write within public or private fandom groups. They can take the form of forums, Yahoo groups, whatever. It’s very informal, and, no, you don’t get paid. This isn’t work for hire; it’s just fun work where you write fics and share them with the other members of the group, critique each other’s work, and share that work on various sites either run by members of the group or mega-huge fic sites like fanfiction.net. Anyway, that was how my Vampire Hunter D group operated long ago. The wonderful thing about my group was I ran into a professional editor who is very, very good. I credit her in my story that Nicky is obsessing over. Turns out, she too was a fan. We two were sort of the old fogies in the group. Together we shared fics back and forth and she helped me TREMENDOUSLY in getting the bad kinks out of my writing. She would redline my fics and point out where I was changing tense or something didn’t gel. I mean she was hard on me, and asked the same of me. It was incredibly educational and I miss those days!
Fanfic seems honest. You love it, you write about it.
On the other hand there are those who love something, rip it off, change names and pretend they’re original.
Nicky, start making sense… please.
What Karen said … I would probably both hate and be really bad at doing the official stuff, like the Star Trek novels and all. I hear they’ve got all these rules and codes and standards and practices that would take all the fun right out of it
Star Trek is VERY strict about the rules and canon, and that goes back to the original series. “he original screen play for “City on the Edge of Forever” is very different from what appeared on the show.
“You assholes are contributing to a member of the Aryan Nation that fucker is a member of the White People’s Party. You fuckers are going to contribute to someone who takes part in Nazi party in Sweden?”
As opposed to the guy who calls hispanics “wet backs” and tells them to “get their ass back over the border”? Newsflash, Nick: “Faggot” & “Dyke” are not terms of endearment.
I wouldn’t mind doing work for hire on an existing series, but the key word here is ‘work’, not fun. I probably wouldn’t have much fun with it.
What I don’t understand is the supposed shame associated with fanfics. Anything that makes young people write (and read) is a good thing. Admittedly, there is a LOT of crap fanfiction out there, and I knew ficcers who wrote, no joke, novel-length work for different fandoms, which I can’t wrap my mind around. That is simply too much investment in something not to get paid for IMHO. But on the other hand, it made them happy and gave them something to look forward to when they got home from their boring, unimaginative jobs, and that means something. All in all, though, the absolute worst pieces of slash fiction I read were still a billion times more entertaining and understandable than Nickfic.
“I knew ficcers who wrote, no joke, novel-length work for different fandoms”
:: raises hand :: Guilty as charged.
http://www.eskimo.com/~vecna/hp_spy_01.html — Harry Potter and the Slytherin Spy, chapter 1 of 30.
I just write so damn fast … and getting feedback on the original stuff can be so damn slow what with usual response times … I’m needy sometimes … what can I say?
Okay. That’s what I thought it was.
Hey, good writing is good writing, fan fic or not. I can see how it might be a good what to chance meet someone.
Nickfic
What an excellent term for crappy writing.
“This reads like a hundred chapters of nickfic”
Yeah, that’d work ;>