Slaying Heretics in the New Year

[MengJiao]

^I ran a 1/2 marathon in 2014. I felt as close to death as I ever have after that...don't think I'll do it again. Still run shorter distances (like 4 miles) 5-6 times a week.

I've tried to minimize how many games I also have on my HD but then I forget what I own...so I stopped worrying :)

I have also made in-roads on my giant book stack, so I need to continue progress.

I also want to attempt to create something instead of just consuming books, games, etc. My life's goal is to write the world's most frightening (in a good way) historical novels. But with two little girls right now may not be the best time for that.

  I've managed to write some books.  Getting them published seems to be the hard part for me.  But perhaps a resolution of some sort will cover that as in: "Must write better query letters."  Or at least spend two sessions on each before sending them out.

  Ah, kids.  I have two and have learned to write mostly late at night, which is kind of hard for me.  But strangely productive.  Over the last 12 years before last year, 3 books made their way through the rejection machinery of the publishing industry.  But for 2015 and 2016 the rate will one book into the rejection vats per year!   So I'm writing 4 times faster!  Or the books are half as long.  Okay:  two times faster!

  Gaming-wise, the kids and the writing are pushing that pretty far down the priority list.  I'm happy playing arcadey tank games at the moment.  Well, just Armored Warfare.  I think because tanks have never interested me much so I don't care how arcadey a tank game it.  Anyway, its all over pretty fast and doesn't cost much.

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

Have you looked into self-publishing via Amazon?

https://kdp.amazon.com/signin?language=en_US

[Dammit Carl!]

Have you looked into self-publishing via Amazon?

Go the Chuck Tingle route, but write erotic wargame themed stuff instead as I'm sure that that particular niche has not been explored yet.  And no, I'm not going to look for stuff in that genre (if you can call it that) from my computer at work.

Or at home either.

[MengJiao]

Have you looked into self-publishing via Amazon?

https://kdp.amazon.com/signin?language=en_US

I'm sure I will in a few years if the rejections keep coming thick and fast.  Unfortunately, I've had a few things published in various odd (but not self-odd) locations over the last 45 years (I'm 60) so I'm still going the "find an agent and find publisher" route.

[MengJiao]

Have you looked into self-publishing via Amazon?

Go the Chuck Tingle route, but write erotic wargame themed stuff instead as I'm sure that that particular niche has not been explored yet.  And no, I'm not going to look for stuff in that genre (if you can call it that) from my computer at work.

Or at home either.

Well, I am planning to bump up the erotic angle over the next year or two.  I'm not sure about how to get war games per se into that, but I often think fondly of games and simulations whilst writing some action-packed scene or other.  For example, I know from war games and sims that putting events even slightly out of the expected order can have a big impact.

[Dammit Carl!]

Well, I am planning to bump up the erotic angle over the next year or two.  I'm not sure about how to get war games per se into that, but I often think fondly of games and simulations whilst writing some action-packed scene or other.  For example, I know from war games and sims that putting events even slightly out of the expected order can have a big impact.

Ah, its easy!  Start with the title and go from there - being self published means you have to go for the, "volume over quality," approach if you want to make the big bucks.  For example:

Panzer Lover
Advanced Sex Leader
Cock and Load; Heroes of the Bedroom
etc., etc.

[Gusington]

Meng is 60???

[MengJiao]

Meng is 60???

  I am.  But I'm still trying to get published!!!

[FarAway Sooner]

Well, I am planning to bump up the erotic angle over the next year or two. 

Meng, I think bumping up the erotic angle is something that's illegal in a few states in the US.  Fortunately, that line of decency to which Gus referred earlier has been crossed so often in this thread, it's not just blurred, it's pretty much been worn out.

For me, it's about getting more regular exercise (in the age category, I'm trailing Meng and FatherTed but seem to have many of you other whippersnappers licked).  It's also about being more present with my kids (neither one yet in 1st grade).  My mom passed recently, and while I wouldn't say I'd been neglecting my kids, it's given me even more perspective on what's important in life and what's not.

I already enacted Airboy's 2016 goal (of leaving management) in 2015--easiest way to leave management, I've found, is to leave the workforce.  I'll let you guys know how that works for me.

[Gusington]

That leave was voluntary and planned, I hope.

Damn...Meng s 60. Next thing you'll tell me is that Gusington is not my real name and Schneider from One Day at a Time died.

[MengJiao]

That leave was voluntary and planned, I hope.

Damn...Meng s 60. Next thing you'll tell me is that Gusington is not my real name and Schneider from One Day at a Time died.

  Schneider was 86.  Even my chain-smoking completely insane grandmother lived to be 90.

[Sir Slash]

Sixty is the new forty. Over sixty, is really old.

[bob48]

^Oh,.......................bugger!

[Gusington]

^You are above mere math, Sir.

[Sir Slash]

Yeah, in 'Stache' years, he's probably only about 7 or 8.