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05-16-2013, 11:29 PM

movieman replied to a thread What music inspires you while your writing? in Writing Discussion

Rammstein, usually :).

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05-16-2013, 08:37 PM

movieman replied to a thread Writing Advice from Thirty Published Authors in Writing Discussion

Ballpoint pens were adopted by the RAF during WWII because they handled pressure changes much better than conventional pens of the time. Maybe the...

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05-16-2013, 08:32 PM

movieman replied to a thread Writing Advice from Thirty Published Authors in Writing Discussion

It's the Dunning-Kruger effect: Dunning Thinking it's bad doesn't mean it's good, but incompetent people tend to be unable to tell that their work...

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05-15-2013, 07:12 PM

movieman replied to a thread Publishing Estories in Publishing

Upload them to the other sites too. If you want to keep it simple, use Smashwords or a similar distributor who will handle Kobo, Apple, B&N etc for...

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05-03-2013, 06:10 PM

movieman replied to a thread Chicago, Las Vegas, New York City in Research

Haven't been to New York in years, but a few perceptions of Vegas: slot machines spewing out their repetitive tunes, heat if you venture outside,...

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05-01-2013, 07:52 PM

movieman replied to a thread Bad Movies in The Writers' Lounge

Censored version or director's cut? From what I remember, Natural Born Killers is one of the few cases where the censored version of a movie ended up...

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04-29-2013, 07:33 PM

movieman replied to a thread Writing For The Vanishing Reader (or, How The Hell Do I Get This Published?) in Publishing

I can see three choices: 1. Keep sending it out and hope someone decides to take a chance on it. 2. Write something else that publishers do want...

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04-25-2013, 04:54 PM

movieman replied to a thread The joy of outsourcing. in The Writers' Lounge

Many of the world's problems are caused by broken motivational systems. If you pay people based on the number of calls they complete rather than the...

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04-24-2013, 07:38 PM

movieman replied to a thread Self-publishing is the future in Publishing

Perhaps, but I've never seen something so blatant in a trade-published book before, and I found two in around an hour of browsing the shelves. Inside...

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04-24-2013, 07:25 PM

movieman replied to a thread Self-publishing is the future in Publishing

Many of them aren't. But that's OK, because, if they're unreadably bad, two paragraphs of the sample is enough to write the book off. However,...

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04-24-2013, 07:00 PM

movieman replied to a thread Self-Publishing...? in Publishing

There are also distributors starting up who will distribute PoD indie books to book stores. Doesn't mean the stores will buy them, but it's better...

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