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Looking for work but getting the jitters as it looks like self/indie publishing might be viable.
Idk the garbage collectors may over 30+ an hour here lol.
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In my experience, making good money is a matter of finding the right opportunities, and writing is a matter of making time.
You can always make time if you try hard enough, but you can't always find the right opportunities when you need them.
I wish you the best of luck.
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Rewrite is doing better.
Felt like I had to separate it.
Now for some reason I have a romance story prequeling/concurrent with the dark fantasy one.
… No I don’t know how that happened.
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Got to love when your role expands but there’s no appropriate compensation.
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Did anyone else want to do Winter 2024? If not I’ll post it ere when I get back from my shift lol.
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Argh, pressure!
Maybe that’s the kick in the pants my muse needs.
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AAAAAAAAGH!
Ok, I waited, and since I didn’t see any announcement I didn’t do any more writing on Meaningful Gifts. I figured we were all just waiting for next year.
I’m really sorry. If you want to do one this year with @BronxWench, IR and @GeorgeGlass, I’ll post reviews of all the stories, but if you all wish to skip this year and return for AFF Winter Holiday 2025, I’ll be there for sure.
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@InBrightestDay God help us, we’re going ahead with it.
https://original.adult-fanfiction.org/story.php?no=600110499
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Hate when i get hit with so much inspiration and prompts but I also want to finish stories when the ol noggin goes oh hey, you know what that’d be cool!
Quick write them or or post them so you don’t forget!!
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Life has been crazy lately, between my car being totaled, granny having a brain bleed ER managed to staunch to having a minor stroke directly in in the ER. Alot is happening all at once. 😅
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Yeah, I’m fine the back of the car is gone and the truck and the idiot responsible fled onto the reservation. So that’s gonna be fun.
Granny is fine, apparently directly in the ER under experienced medical supervision and veteran doctors and nurses is the best place to have a stroke who knew? Lol.
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Ouch and yikes, life seems to strike
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Wow, that’s a lot. Indeed, the ER is the best place to have a stroke, ‘cause they can give you those clot-busting drugs right away. Glad she’s doing well.
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Anybody know why modern book covers tend to be well… Bland and boring?
Like we had these amazing sword and sandal covers and now its well bluh.
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I’m guessing everybody’s using the same generic open-source-art & slapping their title/name over top of it?
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I think @Desiderius Price has the right of it. I was lucky enough to have a publisher who didn’t rely on basic open-source art or awkward renders, and the cover artist did an amazing job for me. After all, the cover is what catches the eye right away, and makes you want to pick up a book and read the blurb...
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Hi, all.
Just an opinion from someone who can observe human behavior and isn’t in the business.
Sometimes, the publisher is “mailing it in on the cheap,” like @Desiderius Price has pointed out. In other cases, they might be trying for something that was far more eye-catching in their minds than it is on the actual dust jacket or paperback binder.
In a rare few cases, the author themselves might be at least partly to blame. A “new author” won’t have a lot of leverage to use against whatever the printer calls their “dust jacket department,” so they’ll get what they get and give thanks that they’re getting paid instead of printing through a “vanity house” and having to sell their books out of the trunk of their car for the next twenty years to get their money back.
A “proven winner,” on the other hand, has a lot more leverage on what their dust jackets will look like, even for reprints of their initial best-sellers. Some authors make good use of this leverage. For others, they sell their books because of the story inside, in spite of the weak-sauce dust jacket or paperback cover.
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It finally rained in AZ! the first whisper of fall y‘all
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Rain in Arizona… who’s been praying to the rain gods?
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I live just outside of Pheonix, I went for a walk to one of the fast food places, when the wind had just started.
Ten minutes later I was having lunch, watching the rain and wondering how I'd get home, without getting wet.
Luckily it didn't last long.
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When I had lived in So Cal, took a year and a half to realize there was a leak in my apartment roof (simply because it hadn’t rained for so long)
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Currently enjoying the forerunners of scifi.
Have to say Light Envelope of Hp lovecraft is so far my favorite terminology.
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How does one find an editor?
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Thank you ❤️
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You’re very welcome! It can get a bit complicated, because you need to decide if you want content editing, or just cleaning up grammar and such. Feel free to pick my brain!
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Lol, just need to bounce ideas off someone.
Kinda have to rewrite a bit cause I want to add more scifi elements to this dark fantasy ahaha!
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Working till Christmas
I worry about these youngings, We’re already on a skeleton crew and two got themselves fired for “the message” Like what message is worth that?
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Was “the message” an actual message sent by the two ex-employees that was in extraordinarily poor taste? Or do you just work for a “high-quality” employer sending a message that they’re “high-quality?”
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I work in an industry where the college life hasn’t been rubbed off by the real world yet.
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Okay… So, with the headlines, I’m guessing the little twerps got involved in the “River to the Sea” Blood-Libel, and someone in management really didn’t want to go there. Oh, well…
Good luck getting and training the replacements.
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Spent a coupled days in Williams. Its touristy place celebrating route 66 but it feels like a small town pearled in time. The gateway to the grand canyon lol.
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So uh, manager got axed but she decided to deadman’s switch and nuke alot of other...enjoyers of group extracurricular activities by sending evidence to HQ directly….
And I knew none of this and walked straight into the aftermath of the hidenburg.
There’s burning bridges… And then there’s nuking the thing.
So the fallout has yet to be determined but on the other hand kinda have to respect going out on your own terms via nuclear fission.
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September 22 is the last day of summer.
September 23 Is the first of Fall.
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People don’t really grow up they just get better at hiding it. Dear lord, having to explain to a construction worker having a temper tantrum that the only reason he can’t login into an app is because of a user error. When he’s at least 6’5 and over eighty pounds heavier is not a good time.