Back into the Machine

[dayonfire]

Now that the chap is out, I will be spending time and energy on "Beserker Marketing", trying to get everyone I know and talk to to buy one copy. Aside from working and my wife now working evenings many nights a week, there is little time to update journals and such. However, I will keep it on my plate, and with a new perspective, no less. Let

Comments

[queen_evie]

I'm not sure about the term 'selling out'.

I suppose it means changing ones style or way of writing in order to make more money...?

But...marketing, I believe, is not a part of 'selling out'...?

Maybe I'm wrong here, though...?

[queen_evie]

hahaha I just realised how funny that reads with all the question marks on the end...

[dayonfire]

Its sort of like a psychological query.

Read the following passage and tell, in your own words, how something from it could be interpreted as a way of looking at the act of writing and/or publishing.

It has to do with if you actually imagined someone saying that to someone else. The honesty vis-a-vis the awkward unacceptability of it. What if you took that sort of brutal, strange openness and applied it to how a writer looks at the act of attempting to write something real in the world.

[queen_evie]

I did imagine someone saying that, however that person would've been quite the asshole in my head, and I certainly would never say anything like that.

However, I do prefer to actually read things written in brutal, tactless honesty... one can relate so much more when others have broken down the barriers of 'tact' and 'politeness' and just told it the way they see it. That is the courage and strength of good writers. (I think).

Let's try that again.

[rjhudson]

It means that not only do you have honest friends, but you have honest friends who have a healthy understanding of their own faults.

Or. . .

It means that the writer is totally at ease with assholery.

Re: Let's try that again.

[dayonfire]

And willing to apologize for it on the spot. It also means the writer is willing to call it the way s/he sees it. It speaks of the dichotomy of keeping it real and not alienating your (potential) peers.

It is hard to integrate and stick to your beliefs with integrity.

I find this analogy (the statement I gave) fascinating in all its connotations.

"You are an asshole for selling out, and I'm an asshole
for saying so in front of your peers."

with the follow up being:

"So where do we go from here? Let's talk."

[anonymous]

You are a god, just admit it.