swag

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I started writing a book but I just realized how it's very expensive to go with a local publishing house :lol2: while profit is miserable. It's 10% of the book price while you never have the actual feedback of how many were sold. So... in that case I'd be getting like 0.5e for one book sold.

:donedeal: that's... not encouraging.
Take it from a published author. You'll earn a better wage cleaning toilets than the hours spent writing a book. The best you can hope for is your author status opens doors to things like public recognition/speaking engagements or work projects that leverage your so-called expertise.
 

Dostoevsky

Tzu
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Take it from a published author. You'll earn a better wage cleaning toilets than the hours spent writing a book. The best you can hope for is your author status opens doors to things like public recognition/speaking engagements or work projects that leverage your so-called expertise.
I'd still like to write one. Even if it's for my own sake.

I used to type about some subjects that turned into a story. And I've been doing that over the past 4 months or so. I didn't invest much time while I type like every 3rd day or so. I just checked last night, collecting all the papers, I already have close to 200 pages.

Does it start with two folks arriving on a train in petrograd
Close enough. It's in Petrograd. :D
 

Martin

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Dec 31, 2000
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I'd still like to write one. Even if it's for my own sake.

I used to type about some subjects that turned into a story. And I've been doing that over the past 4 months or so. I didn't invest much time while I type like every 3rd day or so. I just checked last night, collecting all the papers, I already close to 200 pages.
what language do you write in?
 

swag

L'autista
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I'd still like to write one. Even if it's for my own sake.

I used to type about some subjects that turned into a story. And I've been doing that over the past 4 months or so. I didn't invest much time while I type like every 3rd day or so. I just checked last night, collecting all the papers, I already have close to 200 pages.
I don't regret it one bit. I love to write. So it was a good personal experience and milestone for me. But it was a lot of work for little financial reward.

Was she anatomically correct?
Midget pony?

Ever tried knocking one out and before bolting felt which testicle was working overtime?

No!?

Me neither.
Only when it's with a tranny horse.
 

Dostoevsky

Tzu
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I don't regret it one bit. I love to write. So it was a good personal experience and milestone for me.
Feels the same, although not even a halfway there.

But it was a lot of work for little financial reward.
I don't do it for the money while if I have anything then that'd be free time. Might as well do something to get the stress out of me. It's all the ideas, nihilism and romanticism being thrown on the paper. I feel lighter.

I was quite sad when I saw how low the profit was, though. While I never expected it to be a gold mine I had no idea it would close to nothing. Still, I don't wanna stop doing it. There's that thing called hope. Can't give up on anything at this point or might as well hang myself. Still looking for a job and it still looks like a dead end. So my idea is to finish this, even if I don't go public with it, I think it'd be nice to finish such a 'project', I feel like it I owe it to myself. Others can just let you down at some point or another. In the end it's always just me swimming through the pile of garbage. So there's me thinking, why not carry my book on the road as well.
 

Enron

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Oct 11, 2005
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Feels the same, although not even a halfway there.



I don't do it for the money while if I have anything then that'd be free time. Might as well do something to get the stress out of me. It's all the ideas, nihilism and romanticism being thrown on the paper. I feel lighter.

I was quite sad when I saw how low the profit was, though. While I never expected it to be a gold mine I had no idea it would close to nothing. Still, I don't wanna stop doing it. There's that thing called hope. Can't give up on anything at this point or might as well hang myself. Still looking for a job and it still looks like a dead end. So my idea is to finish this, even if I don't go public with it, I think it'd be nice to finish such a 'project', I feel like it I owe it to myself. Others can just let you down at some point or another. In the end it's always just me swimming through the pile of garbage. So there's me thinking, why not carry my book on the road as well.
Don't do what you love to make money. Do it to make you happy.
 
Apr 15, 2006
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I live in one of the most densely populated parts of the world that isn't in Asia. If they are real, how could I have never encountered a midget?
That's OK. I live in one of the most densely populated parts of the world that IS in Asia, and I rarely encounter them.

The only thing that makes me believe they are real is Peter Dinklage, and a bunch of them in this old Italian porno about Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. :D
 

Seven

In bocca al lupo, Fabio.
Jun 25, 2003
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Just had an opponent belittle me in front of his client. He didn't think I could hear it, but while we were waiting for the courtroom to open, he said something along the lines of 'look at this young dude, if he's our opponent, we're set'.

So I'm annoyed, obviously.

But then the courtrooms go open and this fucker manages to walk into the wrong room. I had looked him up so I'd know who he was, but he clearly hadn't done the same and didn't know who I was. This idiot spent half an hour in the wrong fucking courtroom.

So after that I've had enough and tell the judge I'll 'try to find him'. I come back with him a minute later and explain to the judge he was in the wrong room.

'I guess he doesn't plead here as often as I do'

Sometimes it's the little things.



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