Purgatory's Pit of Doom

Ahhh! The silence means nothing. Or it means everything. Who knows anymore? Nothing means nothin' til somebody makes an offer.

I decided last night I'm just going to make a film. Doing some brainstorming, I came up with a concept for a script that could be shot with an extremely low budget but still be pretty awesome if it's done right. Now to raise 10 grand...

Love it, Vandal.

That's the spirit, Princess. Sell a kidney and you can make a sequel too (just don't injure your other kidney doing the stunts).

Haha. Actually, this is my favourite idea so far. I'm looking forward to making it myself so I can make sure it comes out exactly the way I want.

Snappy I totally agree with your twitter rant. I've thought much the same myself


It feels like I'm the kid on the playground who never gets picked for a team to play kickball....no wait, strike that...it feels like I'm the kickball. <- this

{{Ink}}

Sounds super cool PoP! Give 'er!!

Vandal, that photo creeps me out! Eep!

Princess, I think that sounds awesome if you can do it. Good luck!

I, uh, might have whined about the silence too soon. Will take it out of the Pit.

Silence sucks! Just wanted to throw that out there.

Thanks, Soul for giving the thumbs up to my rant. I really don't deny anyone procrastination time. But, really, maybe just a few less tweets?

yay Ink!

(small yay cuz celebrations don't belong here)

Exactly Snappy. I know we are all guilty of procrastination, but it is frustrating when someone complains about how little time they have or how busy they are and they've got a well-maintained blog and / or Twitter account with a ton of stuff on them...It's all about time management.

ink wench said:

Also, around the time I was spitting queries into the wind, someone in NYC googled me and was all over my website, reading about me and my current books. Gah. The anxious silence - it burns.

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Maybe it's a good thing? maybe it's an agent who wants to make sure you aren't lying about how awesome you are. Of course, they could just come here and found out for themselves

PrincessofPersia said:

I decided last night I'm just going to make a film. Doing some brainstorming, I came up with a concept for a script that could be shot with an extremely low budget but still be pretty awesome if it's done right. Now to raise 10 grand...

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Kevin Smith says that to make a movie, all you have to do is be willing to max every credit card you own. Actually, he did a special called an evening with Kevin Smith and in it he talks about how he was able to make his first movies. I suggest looking it up! My brother wants to make movies and said that it was very informative .

soulcascade said:

Exactly Snappy. I know we are all guilty of procrastination, but it is frustrating when someone complains about how little time they have or how busy they are and they've got a well-maintained blog and / or Twitter account with a ton of stuff on them...It's all about time management.

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I dunno, I would look at when they kick off their tweets. If it's, like, 11 am NY time, yeah, cut it out. If it's 5 pm I say that's their time and they can do with it what they choose.

Leigh.Lyons said:

Kevin Smith says that to make a movie, all you have to do is be willing to max every credit card you own. Actually, he did a special called an evening with Kevin Smith and in it he talks about how he was able to make his first movies. I suggest looking it up! My brother wants to make movies and said that it was very informative .

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My credit sucks lol. I can't get credit cards, but I do have a couple people who know how to get money from nowhere. I might try to go for some product placement stuff too.

PrincessofPersia said:

My credit sucks lol. I can't get credit cards, but I do have a couple people who know how to get money from nowhere. I might try to go for some product placement stuff too.

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Jana: Hey sally, you look thirsty!
Sally: Oh I am!! I could sure go for Captain Morgan's rum and Coke!
Jana: Me too! Captain Morgan's rum is the best with Coca-Cola classic!

Leigh, hahaha!

Ink, where's your news? Must be good.

Leigh.Lyons said:

I dunno, I would look at when they kick off their tweets. If it's, like, 11 am NY time, yeah, cut it out. If it's 5 pm I say that's their time and they can do with it what they choose.

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The one particular person I'm thinking of, who shall remain nameless of course, posts all day during "standard" work hours AND at night. I'm not talking 1 or 2 posts, but double, sometimes even triple digit posts. Clogs up my twitter feed too!

Ah well, se la vie, no more ranting.

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Jana: Hey sally, you look thirsty!
Sally: Oh I am!! I could sure go for Captain Morgan's rum and Coke!
Jana: Me too! Captain Morgan's rum is the best with Coca-Cola classic!

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If I'm gonna do product placement, I might as well make it as obvious as possible.

PrincessofPersia said:

If I'm gonna do product placement, I might as well make it as obvious as possible.

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Subtlety is for losers!

Its2Snappy said:

The one particular person I'm thinking of, who shall remain nameless of course, posts all day during "standard" work hours AND at night. I'm not talking 1 or 2 posts, but double, sometimes even triple digit posts. Clogs up my twitter feed too!

Ah well, se la vie, no more ranting.

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Rep me who? I'm curious now........

Leigh, I'm not saying agents shouldn't be free to burn their free time as they see fit. What the do after hours is none of my business. But I still find it annoying when they complain about not having enough 'hours in the day' (the regular working day) to do their job and they're tweeting or blogging (during work hours) or whatever...

LOL @ the product placement

Leigh, haha!!

I can't complain about agents on twitter seeing as I spend way too much time here and on twitter while at work. *whistles innocently*

kellion92 said:

Well, I'm in the same camp as Cricket -- we have very similar stats.

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Sad, isn't it? And here's what's even sadder: even though I'm only 40 or so queries in, I think I'm trunking this for a while and going to work on my YA.

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Rant alert: Does it annoy anyone else that some agents have 9,000 twitter posts but a no means no response policy, or a 6-8 week response policy on queries? Maybe less time on twitter?

Ok, rant over.

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soulcascade said:

Exactly Snappy. I know we are all guilty of procrastination, but it is frustrating when someone complains about how little time they have or how busy they are and they've got a well-maintained blog and / or Twitter account with a ton of stuff on them...It's all about time management.

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I don't begrudge the way anyone spends their spare time. But yes, seeing tweet after tweet, dead silence on my submission, and then complaints about how they're swamped? If you have time to tweet one sentence, you have time to send me a one sentence pass. "No thank you" would suffice, and it's less than than 140 characters.

Has this dam enterprise reached the point that there's no hope unless you constantly "tweet"? I never tweeted in my life, nor do I intend to do so. Am I doomed?

Blacbird, we're all doomed in the Pit. I tweet, and it hasn't helped me a damn bit.

I will say the best thing about following agents on twitter is that it gives you insight into their personalities that you might not have otherwise discovered. Things that will make you go: I'd never want to work with this person.