Who Has Ever Written a Book or a Play,or Produced a Movie?

[Improviser]

If any of the above, what was the story line?

 

[Madmannsucks]

Ummm...I am a student at a small midwestern university.....

 

[Improviser]

Ummm...I am a student at a small midwestern university.....

That was your movie, play, or book?

At a real university or an unnamed one?

 

[8893]

@cohenzone

 

[the Q]

I am working on 2 baseball themed books/novels.

 

[Sibeerian]

Written novels. Fantasy and supernatural adventure for younger readers.

 

[CL82]

@Palatine IIRC

 

[borninansonia]

I wrote two technical books on feeding balanced fresh food diets to dogs. My second book, Unlocking the Canine Ancestral Diet, is used at several veterinary schools in Europe and Asia.

 

[cohenzone]

Tomorrow is the 6th anniversary of my novel, not self published. Still on Amazon and Barnes & Noble websites. Used the pen name Avi Morris, mostly to honor my grandfathers whom I never knew and, because it’s based on the true story of a pair of my foster daughters, I wanted to keep anonymity, changing locales etc. you know it’s fiction because I made the foster father, kind of me, a Red Sox fan. I’m a Yankee through and through. a decent number of sales and very good reviews for an unknown stiff and still gets an occasional sale. I hate the audio version over which I had no control. It’s a pretty honest portrayal of foster care, abuse, but with an
uplifting conclusion.

I’ve written a few others that got to first and even second base with agents or publishers: but years ago when I had a day job and too busy to pursue further. . All of mine are very different from the others (I have no genre) that I toyed with resurrecting. One is a political parody that actually was pretty predictive of the degree to which politicians and the cable media have incestuous relationships. The problem with resurrecting is that I thought I had created an hard to imagine US President. I fell short.

 

[Sibeerian]

Tomorrow is the 6th anniversary of my novel, not self published. Still on Amazon and Barnes & Noble websites. Used the pen name Avi Morris, mostly to honor my grandfathers whom I never knew and, because it’s based on the true story of a pair of my foster daughters, I wanted to keep anonymity, changing locales etc. you know it’s fiction because I made the foster father, kind of me, a Red Sox fan. I’m a Yankee through and through. a decent number of sales and very good reviews for an unknown stiff and still gets an occasional sale. I hate the audio version over which I had no control. It’s a pretty honest portrayal of foster care, abuse, but with an
uplifting conclusion.

I’ve written a few others that got to first and even second base with agents or publishers: but years ago when I had a day job and too busy to pursue further. . All of mine are very different from the others (I have no genre) that I toyed with resurrecting. One is a political parody that actually was pretty predictive of the degree to which politicians and the cable media have incestuous relationships. The problem with resurrecting is that I thought I had created an hard to imagine US President. I fell short.

Publishing is tough, fickle, painfully slow and always chasing trends... and sadly good reviews are no guarantee that you'll get another book published. Stay inspired and keep at it.

 

[cohenzone]

Publishing is tough, fickle, painfully slow and always chasing trends... and sadly good reviews are no guarantee that you'll get another book published. Stay inspired and keep at it.

Congrats to you and tell me about the difficulty. My publisher is on demand. So getting it into bookstores and libraries was tough. Marketing is a pain and I decided using vehicles like Twitter is mostly useless. Bookstores on consignment.

I loved doing book shows and because I had a niche, got to speak to and sell a bunch to children’s advocates and such. I have another Ive neglected for a while, primarily because of a family illness but mostly now that I’m in my mid 70s, the thought of marketing is nauseating. My political novel had serious interest for month from a reputable e-book publisher who strung me for months before deciding no. When I wrote my earlier unpublished books, self publishing was a bad word. Not so much any more. But again, the difficulty of getting a pre review and no big marketing help is not my first choice, especially with the illness taking up a lot of time.

Anyway, thanks again and with a lot of grandkids, you can pm or post here the name of your titles.

 

[Palatine]

I've written some non-fiction. Been on best seller lists.

I had a 40 year career writing advertising. Many, many TV commercials, print ads, web stuff, movie theater spots, etc.

 

[borninansonia]

I'm envious of those who can write well, and can tell a story, whether fiction or non-fiction. There are many of you on the boneyard.

I am the worst writer I know who makes money writing.

 

[Sibeerian]

I'm envious of those who can write well, and can tell a story, whether fiction or non-fiction. There are many of you on the boneyard.

I am the worst writer I know who makes money writing.

That message was well written, though.

On another note, every time I see your profile pic, and the neandertal descriptor, I wonder why you didn't go with "Ansonia Man" for your handle.

 

[Thirty Three]

I used to produce extreme sports films, among other things. Mostly crazy motorcycle stunts.

While I never wrote a book, I was once a sports writer covering the UConn Men’s basketball team.

 

[cohenzone]

I'm envious of those who can write well, and can tell a story, whether fiction or non-fiction. There are many of you on the boneyard.

I am the worst writer I know who makes money writing.

I have three sons. All really good writers. And have to write for work The two eldest read a lot as kids. I think it helps writing One is a college prof and a natural creative writer but now does scientific papers. The second is a corporate lawyer and also a natural creative writer but now writes exclusively lawyer stuff. My youngest hardly read and is a natural creative writer and is a producer, director, writer of TV shows. My wife and I could never understand where his writing came from because he read so little. I could always write, but not exactly for a living. My day job was as a Fed lawyer. It required a fair bit of writing, but I would say it was maybe a quarter of my time tops. I could never believe how some of the material I read from people who graduated law school could be so poorly written.

For novel writing, I believe, at least for me, the first books have to be written. They are stories you want to tell. I think for some of the very popular writers, say Grisham for example, who go under contract to produce, the later novels are often not as good, staff involved, that sort of thing. I should be so unfortunate.

The other thing is, especially for self publishers, get a professional edit. I’ve read a few novels where the editing of some otherwise interesting books was so bad that it detracted and even led to bad reader reviews. I had to proofread my legal staff and thought I was pretty sharp. I had my wife, who taught writing, edit my novel . I had people I knew edit for mistakes and content, and still my publisher’s editor found a bunch of missed things, especially some missing words (I do that all the time even on the BY, the mind and hand are not always in cynic) and grammar and punctuation. I used spell check, never autocorrect or grammar check. Would constantly trying to change dialogue. People and fictional characters don’t worry about grammar in conversation.

I might be getting the bug to finish my quarter written novel. I think this post is novella length.

 

[superjohn]

I have three sons. All really good writers. And have to write for work The two eldest read a lot as kids. I think it helps writing One is a college prof and a natural creative writer but now does scientific papers. The second is a corporate lawyer and also a natural creative writer but now writes exclusively lawyer stuff. My youngest hardly read and is a natural creative writer and is a producer, director, writer of TV shows. My wife and I could never understand where his writing came from because he read so little. I could always write, but not exactly for a living. My day job was as a Fed lawyer. It required a fair bit of writing, but I would say it was maybe a quarter of my time tops. I could never believe how some of the material I read from people who graduated law school could be so poorly written.

For novel writing, I believe, at least for me, the first books have to be written. They are stories you want to tell. I think for some of the very popular writers, say Grisham for example, who go under contract to produce, the later novels are often not as good, staff involved, that sort of thing. I should be so unfortunate.

The other thing is, especially for self publishers, get a professional edit. I’ve read a few novels where the editing of some otherwise interesting books was so bad that it detracted and even led to bad reader reviews. I had to proofread my legal staff and thought I was pretty sharp. I had my wife, who taught writing, edit my novel . I had people I knew edit for mistakes and content, and still my publisher’s editor found a bunch of missed things, especially some missing words (I do that all the time even on the BY, the mind and hand are not always in cynic) and grammar and punctuation. I used spell check, never autocorrect or grammar check. Would constantly trying to change dialogue. People and fictional characters don’t worry about grammar in conversation.

I might be getting the bug to finish my quarter written novel. I think this post is novella length.

"always in cynic"

 

[UofCT]

I wrote two technical books on feeding balanced fresh food diets to dogs. My second book, Unlocking the Canine Ancestral Diet, is used at several veterinary schools in Europe and Asia.

Just found out my dog has EDS. Any diet recommendations?

 

[Fishy]

@upstater wrote one a billion years ago.

 

[Fishy]

Just found out my dog has EDS. Any diet recommendations?

Well, I wouldn’t eat the dog just because he has a few issues.

 

[uchusky32]

Yeah, right, wd don't believe you. Pictures or it didn't happen.

Tim won’t let me post videos. Something about the sponsors. It’s called “Recruiting Hard!”! It was part of the Grind and was over 20 minutes. But take it with a grain of salt. .

 

[cohenzone]

"always in cynic"

I doubt it.

 

[Improviser]

I'm envious of those who can write well, and can tell a story, whether fiction or non-fiction. There are many of you on the boneyard.

I am the worst writer I know who makes money writing.

Dog owners aren't looking for a thesis.
They are looking for an antithesis to canine digestive problems.

 

[cohenzone]

"always in cynic"

Meant to add. I said I need an editor. You’re hired.

 

[boba]

Meant to add. I said I need an editor. You’re hired.

Always in need of editing!

And my Master's Thesis // project // whatever is used in a writing course at my alma mater (not UConn) because well, it's cheap (free!). Not sure if the instructor is using it as an example of "do this, don't do that" or if it all just "don't do that." The school notified me it was being used and I read it again. It was almost legible and did not appear to be written by a lunatic in the depths of an ether binge - kudos to my editor!!