My step by step plan to get published

1. Write something - done.
2. Get into the Alpha Young Writers Workshop - done.
3. Be the only guy in a group of 20 young writers - done.
4. Seduce and sleep with Tamora Pierce (she is a guest speaker/lecturer/teacher) and get her to pass me on to her editor.
5. Seduce and sleep with Tamora Peirce's editor.
6. Get published.
7. PROFIT.
8. Have people trying to sleep WITH ME.

Sounds like a FOOLPROOF plan to me. What say you all?

Foolproof?

Clearly not.

Damn you!

Provided you are any good in the "sleeping" department, sounds like a plan.

I daresay I'm better at sleeping than I am at writing! Which is either a very good thing or a very bad thing, lol.

But about the other stuff, you know, like the writing?

Now you're just being silly.

dgiharris -

Actually, the profit technically comes from the advance, and since most authors don't earn out anyway. xP

Or, you could forgo the writing nonsense all together and just become a male escort.

Now,there is an idea.

Ooh ooh! You could video tape yourself sleeping with Tamora Pierce and then sell the videos as a marketing strategy? (and profit! )

I can't believe I just said that. Okay, yes I can.

Yes, yes that could work... Although I daresay it might give people an unfavorable impression of me, like I slept my way to getting published or some nonsense like that.

I did all that last week.

Well, if it worked for you it should work for me! Unless of course, you're better than me at writing. Or sleeping. Or both. lol.

Sounds like the Gaius Baltar method to me. So it could work. As long as you're also an undeniable genius, at the keyboard and between the sheets.

Well, I don't like to brag but...lol

Maybe you better go to the Erotica forum for some inspiration

Psh. Like I need inspiration.

Oh gosh haha. I never could understand how of everyone on that show Gaius got the most action.

"he stumbled into leadership of the Cult of Monotheistic Space Nymphets."

I'm glad you guys are all for this. I will keep you updated on my progress through the steps and sheets and etc.

Um, you do know her husband comes with her every year, right?

The more the merrier, I always say!

And that she doesn't stay on campus with the attendees, right?

I don't have to stay on campus either. Therein is the beauty of owning a car. lol.

And you think this hasn't been tried before, right?

The question isn't whether it has been tried before. The question is, by whom? Wayne, apparently, had a great deal of success.

And you do know that making this public is silly because there could be AW members who are also PARSEC members and connected with Alpha, right?

I don't know what PARSEC is... Hmm... Policing Against Really Sexy ways of Entering Careerpaths?

BTW--congrats. It's a great program. Hope you get a lot of out it. (it's all of 3 miles from my house, y'see )

Thanks! I hope I get a lot out of it too, wink wink.