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Two movements in time/The Amicable Death Of The Human Race

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Atavachron wrote:

Originally posted by HemispheresOfXanadu

HemispheresOfXanadu wrote:

Atavachron wrote:

HemispheresOfXanadu wrote:

There once was a man--well, there still is a man, as he didn't die in this story that you know of, and didn't get a sex change but anyhow--who was perfectly ordinary and did pretty ordinary things, honestly. He literally never did anything interesting besides, like, typical interesting things that everyone does, like go camping. Seriously--he'd be more interesting if he never did things like that, because what kind of a person doesn't go on holidays? If he didn't you would assume he was a ticking time-bomb waiting to snap, or a mind-controlled clone created by the government or something crazy like that. Which would, of course, be interesting. Which he wasn't. Then one day he did nothing interesting just like every other day. The end.

If only every novel was as succinct.

Sadly, my publisher was less impressed. He sent a strongly-worded e-mail my way roughly nine pages long. The gist of it, from what I understand, is I went over his word limit and the publishing company is going to have to pay an extra 0.8% to the cost per issue of my work. Furthermore, there will be a decrease in the number of first prints from 100 to 99 copies.

Yes well there's still hope, what if you did some editing; for instance, just say "Camping is interesting but he wasn't." And just leave it at that.

There's very little fat to be trimmed that I can see, were this novelette a dog it would be a mildly ravenous greyhound.The as he didn't die in this story that you know of, is a smidgin ambiguous perhaps? (you sly old tease) You could just call it a comedy c/f tragedy but then a title would elongate this commensurately. No chance you could inject the phrase honey crevice in there somewhere for the prurient demographic is there?

Edited by ExittheLemming - March 14 2014 at 04:21

I think you're just reading too far into it at this point. Wink

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And a fair point that is. Smile

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Famous people others think my penis looks like #23: Al Davis

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Man With Hat wrote:

Famous people others think my penis looks like #23: Al Davis

but only Al Davis thinks that

ExittheLemming wrote:

Man With Hat wrote:

Famous people others think my penis looks like #23: Al Davis

but only Al Davis thinks that

I'd like to see the expense report on that!

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I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
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