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Post by Wilgrove on Feb 23, 2015 18:07:17 GMT
I wouldn't mind writing a smut novel if I could have fun with it, maybe write a satire of the whole genre that stupid people won't get. What if a Harlequin paperback became self-aware? It would start a downward spiral of alcohol and substance abuse, going to back allies to perform questionable acts for five dollars and it'll end with a trip to the Office Max paper shredder.
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Post by Quandarm on Feb 23, 2015 19:09:15 GMT
I wouldn't mind writing a smut novel if I could have fun with it, maybe write a satire of the whole genre that stupid people won't get. You mean 50 Shades of Gray?
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Post by Wilgrove on Feb 23, 2015 19:12:33 GMT
I wouldn't mind writing a smut novel if I could have fun with it, maybe write a satire of the whole genre that stupid people won't get. You mean 50 Shades of Gray? I actually think the author of 50 Shades was sincere.
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Post by Atomosea on Feb 23, 2015 19:15:53 GMT
You mean 50 Shades of Gray? I actually think the author of 50 Shades was sincere. Yeah, one doesn't write an entire Twilight fanfiction and then make a king's ransom using the "Find & Replace" function of their word processor out of nothing more than a love of wit and the art of satire. I'm almost entirely certain that E. L. James thought her work was worth professional publication, I mean, just look at her role model.
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Post by Wilgrove on Feb 23, 2015 19:30:55 GMT
I actually think the author of 50 Shades was sincere. Yeah, one doesn't write an entire Twilight fanfiction and then make a king's ransom using the "Find & Replace" function of their word processor out of nothing more than a love of wit and the art of satire. I'm almost entirely certain that E. L. James thought her work was worth professional publication, I mean, just look at her role model. Once again, I find this reality that we live in depressing. Somehow a bad fanfic, based off of a bad series of books, can somehow make the authors of both series rich and give them successful movies in the box offices. No wonder Ernest Hemingway drank.
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Post by Atomosea on Feb 23, 2015 19:34:47 GMT
Yeah, one doesn't write an entire Twilight fanfiction and then make a king's ransom using the "Find & Replace" function of their word processor out of nothing more than a love of wit and the art of satire. I'm almost entirely certain that E. L. James thought her work was worth professional publication, I mean, just look at her role model. Once again, I find this reality that we live in depressing. Somehow a bad fanfic, based off of a bad series of books, can somehow make the authors of both series rich and give them successful movies in the box offices. No wonder Ernest Hemingway drank. I always figured an addiction to the Devil's nectar just came with the English degree. Lord knows you don't get anything else...
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Post by Wilgrove on Feb 23, 2015 19:39:03 GMT
Once again, I find this reality that we live in depressing. Somehow a bad fanfic, based off of a bad series of books, can somehow make the authors of both series rich and give them successful movies in the box offices. No wonder Ernest Hemingway drank. I always figured an addiction to the Devil's nectar just came with the English degree. Lord knows you don't get anything else...The same is true for a BA in History. Mine is sitting somewhere in storage collecting dust.
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Post by Ximea on Feb 24, 2015 0:13:10 GMT
Once again, I find this reality that we live in depressing. Somehow a bad fanfic, based off of a bad series of books, can somehow make the authors of both series rich and give them successful movies in the box offices. No wonder Ernest Hemingway drank. I always figured an addiction to the Devil's nectar just came with the English degree. Lord knows you don't get anything else...Having a BA in English and a BAC I'm reluctant to share, I can confirm. 'course, it hasn't stopped me from that other thing I do.
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Post by Wilgrove on Mar 29, 2015 4:54:38 GMT
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Post by Ximea on Mar 29, 2015 5:15:36 GMT
I can only assume that this is a fake Groupon communique for the purposes of comedy (or that no one has ever had this much fun flirting with termination of employment). Is there more material from this source?
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Post by Wilgrove on Mar 29, 2015 12:57:13 GMT
I can only assume that this is a fake Groupon communique for the purposes of comedy (or that no one has ever had this much fun flirting with termination of employment). Is there more material from this source? I actually got this off of r/funny, which is strange since r/funny is usually...not funny.
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Post by Ximea on Mar 29, 2015 17:24:33 GMT
Then why do you go there?
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Post by Wilgrove on Mar 29, 2015 18:14:35 GMT
Then why do you go there? Boredom.
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Post by Wilgrove on May 30, 2015 13:09:40 GMT
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Post by Ximea on May 30, 2015 16:26:13 GMT
Good god, is that real? It's real, isn't it? How did that get past an editor? Did they not even bother copy-editing after the first book so well? If I were her editor, I wouldn't even care that this effusion of excrement was so profitable that its fanfiction spawned a multi-million-dollar movie, with another in the works. That line would fucking go.
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