Where I talk about working for
free, the DOJ, ads in ebooks, and whip cream fun.
Since I’ve created
several System * Publishing sites I’m going to go back to Under The Training
Book being my personal blogging outlet.
Getting back into
blogging is just another writer meal to consume. I haven’t decided if I will be
completely taking down my Live Journal site but more than likely that will be
the case.
I’m going to start
this by talking about some quotes on writing I recently came across.
Cory Doctorow @doctorow “Any writer who indemnifies a nonpaying
publisher is a sucker; any publisher who asks is a jerk.” #businessOfWriting
I think that quote by Cory Doctorow is largely true.
I'd love to work with a ton of people but don’t have the money to hire them and
wouldn't ask them to work for free.
And the people I do work with I always work out some
sort of payment even when people are saying they would work for free. I
don’t like playing that game.
I’ve also had a number of people ask me to write
comics or TV reviews for their sites for “exposure” I barely have enough time
to write my own stuff, I’m not going to write for you for some kind of mythological
golden exposure.
Jason Arnopp @JasonArnopp “Rejection can be
tough. Rant privately, learn what you need to, then forge ahead like the
unstoppable steamroller you need to be to survive.”
I think in the internet age this is usually a lesson
writers learn by fire so to speak. I use to take rejection so bad I would stop
writing for long periods of time and that was just stupid. Writing is like
playing baseball, no matter what you do, you ant ever Ever going to even have a
500 batting average. At least in my view failure is not only a option, its
required to tough the skin and skill.
Tony Lee @mrtonylee “What's worse than a
writer that gets rejected? A writer that's so scared that they don't even TRY,
and never write the story they dream.”
So true and this was me for some long. I took my own
weakness as a pre-birth failure before even trying.
Tony Lee @mrtonylee “If you can't accept
that your first draft isn't perfect? Then GET OUT OF WRITING. Because it won't
be. Change = improvement.”
This is actually something you learn fast when writing
monthly releases or you die. I’m still finding the proper structure for my work
towards making my releases the best they can be but rewriting, revising,
editing- that a lot of time turns into the real writing.
People have asked me what doing monthly releases are
doing for me personal for than anything else and I say it’s training under gun
fire. It’s harsh and sometimes cruel but it’s the best writing learning process
I’ve ever been involved with.
There are only two things that have given me as much
pain and joy as writings and that’s sex and trying to play good defense on any
version of Madden.
Here are
some things I’ve found interesting online:
Department of Justice sues Apple & publishers for allegedly
colluding to set eBook prices. http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/doj-sues-apple-publishers-over-ebook-prices_b49963
I’m sort of back
and forth on this issue but in the long and painful road maybe it might be the
best things to slap the publishing industry in the head about getting their
drive in gear about digital works.
I like her even more now. PETA does
nothing really for animal abuse. Well, except kill a ton in their shelters so I
guess they can’t…be abused…when Dead? All they do is masturbate to their own
self promotion actions. http://www.gossipcop.com/jennifer-lawrence-peta-feud-squirrel-scene-winters-bone-rolling-stone-interview/
Oh, and before
someone jumps down my throat about PETA. I know someone who had blood thrown on
them by PETA people. If I had been there I would have beaten that asshole. PETA
should go fuck themselves. They get away with assault and playing look at me
and doing nothing real.
PETA, “I love
animals so lets puts somes ladies naked on a billboards. YES YES YES!”
I've thought about putting ads in my
books but still resist. Yes it would bring in money but would it be worth it
for me and also the people buying ads? http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-17657859
Santorum's biggest mistake. He went
after porn. I'm not kidding. Porn is such a huge industry you know some of his
supporters were all, "You can go after women, you can go after anything
else, but let us row back that talk."
Go Jalen Rose, ESPN never calls out Skip Bayless. He's a
character now, not a journalist. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/10/jalen-rose-skip-bayless-basketball-lie_n_1415422.html
ESPN has becoming a sports copy of Fox News.
They want to be called pure News when it benefits them and they want to be
called entertainment when attacked. And just to add I've always said Fox
New took a lot of lessons for doing their thing from the early success days of ESPN.
ESPN perfected the newscaster is more important than the news itself structure.
Time to post this and knuckle down and
get some writing down. The writer in me says go
put more whip cream on my coffee. My body says "ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING
ME?"
At least I don’t funnel that stuff into my mouth like
Mar does.
Oh, that just sounded bad, didn’t it? She’s going to
kick my ass.
And as always here are some of the
places you can find me online:
UNDER THE TRAINING BOOK: Official site of Brian
C. Williams
CHAOS READ: Bimonthly Short Story Series
TIN UNIVERSE: Bimonthly Short Story Series
The
Facebook page of Brian C. Williams
Twitter feed of Brian C. Williams
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