A Tale of One Author, Two Names
Children's: Young Adult
Cyn Balog writing as Nichola Reilly's DREAM KINGDOM, set in a future flooded world in which the heroine and her island people must all climb onto a precarious platform at high tide or be swept away and drowned -- or worse, attacked by deadly ocean predators -- and the secrets kept by the ruling class may be the end of their ( Read more... )
Cyn Balog writing as Nichola Reilly's DREAM KINGDOM, set in a future flooded world in which the heroine and her island people must all climb onto a precarious platform at high tide or be swept away and drowned -- or worse, attacked by deadly ocean predators -- and the secrets kept by the ruling class may be the end of their ( Read more... )
I have a bit of a confession to make: I got out of the habit of checking my FL almost a year ago. So on the one hand, I hadn't noticed the absence. On the other, now that you mention it, I hadn't seen your blog on my FL the few times I did check.
A phrase popped into my head years ago: "bloggers come, bloggers go." It can be hard to see a particular blogger quit blogging, but it happens. And we have to grieve for that loss, just like one would grieve for a beloved family member or close friend.
I just rarely have anything interesting to say!
To which I must respectfully reply HORSESHIT! A published author that does have anything interesting to say is a bit like a salesman with no product to sell. Are the books you've been flogging on this blog subtly disguised tech manuals? That's the only way I can square your statement with your actions.
The blurb for PM is written by other people. I just nod and smile when it is released.
Not to beat a dead horse, but isn't it a bit ironic that the very people who are trying to sell the words of someone else by using words can't effectively use words? But who are we plebs to question the Mad Men, eh? The mind boggles.
it has basically boiled down to the very end of civilization where there ARE no safe places to live--it's survival of the fittest.
That sounds exhausting, much like Nihilism to The Dude.
If it's survival of the fittest, does this mean that there will be one man/woman/couple left standing? I'm having flashes of The Hunger Games in my mind's eye.
But my brain works in odd ways, too, so it might make no sense to anyone but me!
In the prolog of his book The Total Film-maker, Jerry Lewis talks about what it takes to make film. I think you could change the words as appropriately and his quote would apply to anything-in this case, writing:
Where do you start? There's no Monopoly board. No Start. Do Not Pass Go. I think you start our by just being there and being curios and having the driver to make films.
More important: make film, shoot film, run film.
Do Something.
Make film. Shoot anything.
It does not have to be sound.
It does not have to be titled.
It does not have to be color.
There is no have to. Just do.
And show it to somebody. If it is an audience of one, do and show then try it again.
That is how.
It sounds simple.
It's not. Then again, it is.
Lest you become codependent, he also had this to say:
I want to make a piece of crap. If it is a piece of crap, let it be mine. Don't add and join. My crap and your crap do not meld. Let mine be good crap by itself.
The thing that most aspiring authors don't know that they need to know is that getting published-whether self or New York-is a business. You have to think like a business. So you can't just be some starry-eyed liberal arts dreamer. You have to be a worker. All that boring, repulsive, repugnant accounting bullshit? Kenny Rogers summed it up best in his song The Gambler:
You got to know when hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
Know when to run
Good luck with your new magic pie.
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