If I might jump in, I'd like to corroborate the first half of this. In recently completing the Book From Hell, I found I had no creative energy whatsoever to spare for any other kind of writing -- even documenting my code at my day job, something I normally can do without a second thought.

-- Bob
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I have seen the face of evil and it is a yellow bloated weasel with a lightning bolt shoved up its ass. -- Widgett, on Coming Attractions, about Pokemon

I'm looking forward to a humongous $0.46 per copy, myself. (That's on a $22.95 book.)

-- Bob
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I have seen the face of evil and it is a yellow bloated weasel with a lightning bolt shoved up its ass. -- Widgett, on Coming Attractions, about Pokemon

-Raven
Don't mind me, I'm like Radical Edward in the head.

"Human suffering is such a unique prviledge." -Rene D'anclaude, Armitage The Third.

"The hard part about playing chicken is knowing when to flinch." Capt. Bart Mancusoe, The Hunt For Red October.

forgot... about... publications.

well.

IHNTA.

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor in Chief, Netadmin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

Do you ever read anything that's not a fanic? How do you "forget about publications"?

>But I would never really want to take such a job unless it were something I truly
>enjoyed doing.

Well, you know with the economy these days you'll be lucky to even find a job, nevermind something that you'll even slightly enjoy. You can't be picky. Some jobs are a lot better than being broke.

>My girlfriend, for example, has written a trully excellent pokemon fanfic that she is
>going to attempt to have published.

Pokemon Fanfic, that's all I have to say about that one.

-Giz

One word. Copyright. And now I'm going to shut up.

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter
My LiveJournal
"Pika Pika-" *punt*

Oh, and about the last remark about pokemon fanfic, It's a lot like anime here in America. You have the absolutley horrible stuff that's meant for S&G to begin with, then gets tossed through translators and censors and wind up on your brain like a toxic waste dump... And then you have those wonderful fansubbed diamonds in the rough. Damaged is one of those, trust me on that one.

Besides, if I had just thought that UF was just some POS written by a fourteen year old (No offense, Gryphon) then I certainly would have been a shallow person, true?

-Raven
Don't mind me, I'm like Radical Edward in the head.

"Human suffering is such a unique prviledge." -Rene D'anclaude, Armitage The Third.

"The hard part about playing chicken is knowing when to flinch." Capt. Bart Mancusoe, The Hunt For Red October.

And you're thinking of buying a gun?

Reconsider.

>Besides, if I had just thought that UF was just some POS written by a
>fourteen year old

Actually, I was 18 at the time I wrote that particular POS.

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor in Chief, Netadmin
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

I know you probably get tired of hearing this, but UF core isn't a POS. It's a good laugh. Not as polished as SOS, or Twilight, but it's good. I *like* the fact that it's full of in jokes. Even though I'm sure I'm missing half of 'em. :-)

--
-Pasha
"I invented Warp Drive, whatta ya got?"
"I'm the Norse God of Mecha."
"Well, I guess you win then."

now I am not trying to be offensive but what is POS? I
hazard a guess for it to be er...Piece Of Shit....

No offense meant. Its just that a lot of abbreviations
people on forums use just sail clear over my head.
(having no internet-capable PC of my
own contributes a lot to this problem)

-WF-Qu'est-ce que Hoek?!-

-Raven
Don't mind me, I'm like Radical Edward in the head.

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity" -Edgar Allen Poe.

"Human suffering is such a unique prviledge." -Rene D'anclaude, Armitage The Third.

"The hard part about playing chicken is knowing when to flinch." Capt. Bart Mancusoe, The Hunt For Red October.