I think time is my enemy more than engagement at the moment. I'd be in the November thread complaining I've only done a few lines on my new novel before I knew it...
If time is the enemy I have a solution...Let's kill Time!
I think time is my enemy more than engagement at the moment. I'd be in the November thread complaining I've only done a few lines on my new novel before I knew it...
If time is the enemy I have a solution...Let's kill Time!
You're just south of me onuilmar. Maybe one of these days we can hook up for coffee.
Thanks guys. I started a thread for it here. Not just to vent but I figured it might be helpful to other writers to see the process of something like this as it happens, so to speak.
It's not just the writing part that irritates me, it's the research. I took my co-author and I five years to research. I had access to records because I'm a gov't appointed historian he wouldn't be able to get his hands on, hence impossible for him to write about things like the inquest in 1857. There would be no other place for him to get that other then our book.
So for him to just about copy/paste for his chapter and isn't he the cats meow for telling such a bizarre story, and the books are selling off the shelves etc etc. Sigh. We still sell ours too so I look at it as money out of our pockets. Honestly, I don't think much is going to come from going after him, but it doesn't hurt to try.
When we originally published through Morris Publishing they required it on zip disks. I don't have a computer with a zip drive any more so I gave them to the tech guys at work. If they can't retrieve the info I'll have to retype it. The plan is to upload the PDF to createspace for hard copy and do it up for the kindle too and promote the shit out of it as the original unplagiarized version of the "woman who poisoned her family" (title of his chapter)
I think Procrastination as stolen it.
We can kill Procrastination when we've finished making that coffee...
... caught up on the Sunday papers
... played with the cat
... ignored enough emails
... read through every post on our favorite AW threads
... and then we can help kill the reputation of HS's plagiarist.
Okay. I'm good to go.
You're just south of me onuilmar. Maybe one of these days we can hook up for coffee.
I remember the Simpsons Halloween riff on that one, HS.
You know you're an MTS writer when you come up with thriller ideas going through airport security. Especially when those ideas involve explosives disguised as aspirin, and poison hidden in eye drops...
We're safe from those FBI watch lists here, right?
And Muse: If you kill time, I think you have the nugget for a great story. Then ALL you have to do is develop the plot.
And just think, it could be written as either a mystery or a thriller. Just think of the possibilities.
I remember the Simpsons Halloween riff on that one, HS.
You know you're an MTS writer when you come up with thriller ideas going through airport security. Especially when those ideas involve explosives disguised as aspirin, and poison hidden in eye drops...
We're safe from those FBI watch lists here, right?
Now that's a tuffy: where's the line between lifting a nebulous idea and plagiarizing? 'Eye of the beholder' would lead to severe differences between **er and **ee. (Too lazy to type it all out.)
Eh, you're welcome to it . I had some interesting ideas about how someone might kill people with those things, and in all probability you'd come up with very different things.
I have about a dozen "proper" story ideas vying for my attention anyway, so random nuggets are definitely up for grabs!
But then I'd have to kill the plot. Yes, I am in killing form. I know! Let's form a
Love the pitchfork gang. (And yes, I am seeing the theme in your posts.)
Have no idea how to make all the emoticons. I'm still at the smiley , cheesy smile stage myself.