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Dhaise
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posted May 23, 2009 04:40 AM     Sexy Personal Secrets About Dhaise   See the dumbass vanity page made by some Internet dork who thinks someone out there gives a rat's ass about their Star Wars obsession...   Flood The Mailbox Of Dhaise     Send New Private Message, Which Has a 99% Chance Of Being Completely Ignored.   Edit/Delete Post, Thus Making Yourself Look Like A Spineless Cunt. Go Ahead! Do It, Pussy!   Waste Time And Space By Repeating Shit We've Already Read And Put Yourself On The Hatter's Shit List.
One of my pitfalls has been a lack of samples. Back before my disjointed era, I used to have structured rants on my personal web space usually revolving around some personal experience that somehow factored into my life. This was back when homepages where not considered bonafides or advertisements, and where formattting was simply a way to keep all your links under control. It was a different era then today, where someone designs the flashiest content capable, to showcase their real content.
The rants generally sucked,looking back. I was usually too cynical for the average reader, and anybody who knew me knew what I was like already. They were typically good for a chuckle and that was it. Good practice,but not a body of work. I'd be flat out embarrassed today if someone thought my only real talent was somehow getting from 'jaywalkers on the way to church' to 'racial intolerance in whores' in as few profanity ridden sentences as possible.

I bring it up now because someone suggested to me that I grab some of them, toss them in a Blurb.com book, publish the thing myself, and use it as a physical resume to provide for people. The thing stinks of 'vanity project' to me, but the thought is put out there : Would anybody actually have an interest in reading through some sort of hardcopy anymore when the internet is already hardwired right here to our brains?

I love the feeling of a good book in my hands, but honestly, I check my email way before I hit the mailbox. I google before I go to our public library. I message board instead of book signings. Would actually having something self published do anything but impress a rube?

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Berkman's Pretender
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posted May 27, 2009 09:08 PM     Sexy Personal Secrets About Berkman's Pretender   See the dumbass vanity page made by some Internet dork who thinks someone out there gives a rat's ass about their Star Wars obsession...   Flood The Mailbox Of Berkman's Pretender     Send New Private Message, Which Has a 99% Chance Of Being Completely Ignored.   Edit/Delete Post, Thus Making Yourself Look Like A Spineless Cunt. Go Ahead! Do It, Pussy!   Waste Time And Space By Repeating Shit We've Already Read And Put Yourself On The Hatter's Shit List.
I've been toying with the idea of publishing a couple of volumes of my poetry (since no other fucker has deemed it necessary to leap up and offer) and have been told that it is actually a worthwhile endeavour. If the work is well structured and has writing has merit then you can use it almost as readily as you can something that was published by the small press.

You can also submit it to papers and journals in the hope that the literary review section will like what they see and publish a review.
Not something that's going to happen if your writing is all on the Web.

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Dhaise
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posted May 27, 2009 10:58 PM     Sexy Personal Secrets About Dhaise   See the dumbass vanity page made by some Internet dork who thinks someone out there gives a rat's ass about their Star Wars obsession...   Flood The Mailbox Of Dhaise     Send New Private Message, Which Has a 99% Chance Of Being Completely Ignored.   Edit/Delete Post, Thus Making Yourself Look Like A Spineless Cunt. Go Ahead! Do It, Pussy!   Waste Time And Space By Repeating Shit We've Already Read And Put Yourself On The Hatter's Shit List.
I'm not too worried about the monies or the exposure, I'm just trying to figure it out. I have an editor buddy, and he hates physical document submissions. Hates them to the point of throwing them out if he gets them unsolicted; and I know he's not the only editor to hold to that practice. In those cases,it's a detriment.
But really, aside from tossing it to someone at a con or something,with your contact information inside of it, what is the benefit?
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Berkman's Pretender
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posted July 17, 2009 06:49 AM     Sexy Personal Secrets About Berkman's Pretender   See the dumbass vanity page made by some Internet dork who thinks someone out there gives a rat's ass about their Star Wars obsession...   Flood The Mailbox Of Berkman's Pretender     Send New Private Message, Which Has a 99% Chance Of Being Completely Ignored.   Edit/Delete Post, Thus Making Yourself Look Like A Spineless Cunt. Go Ahead! Do It, Pussy!   Waste Time And Space By Repeating Shit We've Already Read And Put Yourself On The Hatter's Shit List.
I guess you don't want a box of your own books - painful rem(a)inders

and I can see why busy overstretched editors get impatient.

I've been published in online anthologies that have been through the editing process, but I still think, if you want your output (if not yourself as the author) to receive recognition and/or readership, you need to be published in print. If you really want to back your first endeavour into print, talk of your Web accomplishments.

Or whip out your best blogging moments as samples of writing. As long as you've got a satire, a review, an essay, a dialogue as treatment for a play or short film,the bigger range the better.

But if you want to do a dramatic sidestep into hardboiled crime with ironic musical interlude then I figure you should be allowed to. Follow the muse where 'ere she may take you.

From a creative perspective, I find this works best. From point of debate, or deliberation, or determination, it's too whimsical to be of any use.

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Dhaise
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posted August 11, 2009 02:04 PM     Sexy Personal Secrets About Dhaise   See the dumbass vanity page made by some Internet dork who thinks someone out there gives a rat's ass about their Star Wars obsession...   Flood The Mailbox Of Dhaise     Send New Private Message, Which Has a 99% Chance Of Being Completely Ignored.   Edit/Delete Post, Thus Making Yourself Look Like A Spineless Cunt. Go Ahead! Do It, Pussy!   Waste Time And Space By Repeating Shit We've Already Read And Put Yourself On The Hatter's Shit List.
"The box of my own books" kind of runs counter to how I'm wired. It'd be different if I was seeing it for sale at the local book chain discount table, or seeing someone read it at the bus stop, but making it myself doesn't really fill me with that same 'zing'.
When I'm goofing, I have fun with it in a completely nonprofessional manner. When I had my brief brush with greatness in the small press market, I had zero fun with it. I had guys who edited for the sake of editing, I had ulcers over a project meant to distract and entertain me during a particularly drama ridden time in my existence, and I was continually at the mercy of other people's motivation, which dwindled constantly. And my god, the amount of "this is how the big boys do it, so let's emulate that even though it clearly doesn't apply in this scenario..." errruch.
I don't want to dismiss the entire experience or invalidate it for anybody else, because I know people who could and did ride through that storm- but I never had any amount of fun during the time I was almost a small press writer.
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