Nicky’s using his NextCat as if it’s another blog:
Mon. Jun. 22, 2009, 3:44 PM |
The story that will take me a while to write will be The Story of Thomas Jode. It’s been a month since I first started this story. It was my first attempt at breaking my writers block. This might saved for another magazine if I don’t have the link for the Chicago authors doing stories into the Chicago area. I have 3100 words typed away . . .
Whee! He’s on a roll.
The naysayers are restless too when they know a new story is involved they will pose as a friend just to get a copy of the story then pirate the fucking story around to make sure it never sees publication.
Seriously, who would want one of his piss poor tales of his nightmares? I can sum up all of his stories in five words: “I had a scary dream.”
The more noise they make, it’s usually when I have a new story getting published or when they learn of a new issue of the Ethereal Gazette. I should have the magazine ready to publish within the next month or middle of August.
The more noise he makes, the closer he gets to self-publishing something.
I was going to say the exact same thing as I read this, then saw you had.
Whenever he has something to crow about, he starts up with other people to get the attention.
It’s logic, Rust, but not as we know it.
In his world, 1 + 1 = 11. Enough said.
And yet another project that nobody will buy or get paid a dime for.
That’s nice, but are they the correct words, spelled correctly? Do the words form a sentence with a subject, verb, and object? Is there a punctuation difference between a question and a statement? Is the verb tense consistent?
Since these are third grade English exercises and this is Nicky, I’m going to assume the answer is no.
Pasting all those submissions into an Open Office document and hitting Save As PDF must be back-breaking labor. Then there are the many and various fonts to choose from, and the margins, and the editor’s photograph…poor Nicky, he must be swamped.
You forgot the part about applying various filters to a digital photo to come up with the eight different versions of a cover. Choosing between red, green, and purple is difficult.
Then, he’s got to work out different pricing for each version — five in paperback and three in hard cover. Forget those price/demand charts from our college economics courses; they’re irrelevant. If he buys more copies than he can sell at nightclubs, he can always sign them in blood, and ship them to Flea Market Larry to sell at Coney Island.
I have a sneaking suspicion that if I were to mix and match a dozen of my best orchid, bird, and rose photos, set up an account, and have Lulu print it as a calendar for 50 cents above cost, it’d sell better than anything Nikita produces.
I would buy that calendar. That’s pretty much what I look for in a calendar if I’m buying one. My current one is a freebie I got for my bank…pretty scenes from nature and the like in Iowa.