BS: So who here's a writer?

Subject: RE: BS: So who here's a writer?
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 20 Nov 06 - 08:30 AM

I've been known to write a few songs.

Subject: RE: BS: So who here's a writer?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Nov 06 - 09:08 AM

Good to see you online, Mike! I hope you're feeling better--and keep on scribbling!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: So who here's a writer?
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Nov 06 - 09:19 AM

Yes, of course I have been paid. I didn't see Garg's post about money, if that is where this $10,000 thing came from, but I went over THAT so early that I can't begin to think of what the total might be now, nor do I care.

Writing useful material of any sort is, firstly, its own reward because if you are a writer, you must write. The money is nice, too-- don't get me wrong-- but it isn't the money that tells you when you hit a bullseye. If you think it is-- I'm sorry for you, and you need to think again.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: So who here's a writer?
From: Crystal
Date: 20 Nov 06 - 10:11 AM

WHOOOO
GO KAT!!!!
I failed to do more than 300 words of my novel, but it rocks to hear about people who are doing well!
Keep it up!

Subject: RE: BS: So who here's a writer?
From: Donuel
Date: 20 Nov 06 - 10:22 PM

sorefingers, did you know that Hemmingway lost the only copy of an entire handwritten manuscript of his?

He did not live long after that.










ya wanna see it? :)

Subject: RE: BS: So who here's a writer?
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 12:03 AM

So did T.E. Lawrence. He left the first copy of "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom' at a bus stop or something. Talk about ambivalence. There's something to be said for being able to back up your files.

Subject: RE: BS: So who here's a writer?
From: Bert
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 01:06 AM

Well I say,

"If you can't do it again, you never could do it in the first place!"

Subject: RE: BS: So who here's a writer?
From: GUEST,jaze
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 01:58 PM

Just a little memoir of my days in a Catholic orphanage. Hopefully humorous,but still a ways to go. Maybe someday....

Subject: RE: BS: So who here's a writer?
From: Don Firth
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 04:16 PM

Writing ad copy for a radio station was a real snort! But even more fun was producing them myself. I really dislike the "shouter" ads, and the station I was working for did quite a few of them. But I managed to get my licks in and, I think, struck a blow for our side.

The "Acme Floor Coverings" (slightly fictitious name) store usually opted for "shouters." I got assigned to write, produce, and voice an ad for them. When I read over the fact sheet for the big sale they had coming up, I noticed that, contrary to their usual somewhat cheesy merchandise, the carpets they were offering on the sale were pretty good quality stuff. Quality names in carpets. So I took an entirely different approach. I did a "prestige" ad. I emphasized the fine names of the manufacturers and the quality of the carpets. I gave it the smooth, mellow voice, with a nice piece of classical music underneath. "Good commercial," I thought. I was rather proud of it.

When it went on the air the following morning (I was board announcer at the time), Roger, the station manager, came storming into the control room and had a hissy-fit all over me. "That's not the kind of commercial Acme wants! They want high-energy spots! Whatever possessed you to do that kind of ad for them? And that music! It sounds like a goddam dirge!"

At which time the telephone rang. It was Acme Floor Coverings for Roger. Merna, the receptionist, patched it through to the control room. I figured, "I'm dead. Thank God I've updated my résumé, 'cuz it looks like I'm gonna need it."

Roger talked quietly with them for a few moments, then hung up.

"Well. . . ." he said, a bit flummoxed. "Sorry I blew up. They really liked the spot. They want you to do all their commercials from now on."

I cherish life's little triumphs!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: So who here's a writer?
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 04:36 PM

LOL, Don. I only voiced and produced my own out of desperation when my fav. dj left the station.

Jaze...I'd love to read MORE...what I have read has stuck with these few years. Keep at it, okay?

Subject: RE: BS: So who here's a writer?
From: Rowan
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 05:06 PM

Go Don!
Can't say I'm a fan of high energy ads. We've just finished a season of "The Chaser's War on everything" over here and the satire has been excellent. Particularly well shafted were the high energy ads, sometimes with parody, and sometimes with "road tests".

End of thread creep.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: So who here's a writer?
From: GUEST,sorefingers
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 05:29 PM

The great critic of Internet English, Buck Mulligan, has spoken!

Take heed all you wannabes there's booor in the making, ....well not really but on the internet.

Bert ... barfff yole fart!

Subject: RE: BS: So who here's a writer?
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 07:47 PM

Well, after pursuig professional writing on and off for some 45 years, I can only say it beats working.

Subject: RE: BS: So who here's a writer?
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 08:05 PM

The dog ate one of my novels. Odd thing was, it came out better when he was done with it.

Subject: RE: BS: So who here's a writer?
From: black walnut
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 05:22 PM

poems
~b.w.

Subject: RE: BS: So who here's a writer?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 07:09 PM

Some of just can't stop trying!

Subject: RE: BS: So who here's a writer?
From: GUEST
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 10:16 PM

Well Mr. Fudd, after packin five dozen replies, it appears that EVERYONE on the mudcat is a writer.

None have acknowledged using voice-recognition to post....and patting yourself on the back is awkward and may cause a strain.

Subject: RE: BS: So who here's a writer?
From: Elmer Fudd
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 11:27 PM

O thou anonymous one,

Cheer up! It could be worse; Everyone here could be a tax collector.

So there's a creative bunch of verbal folks hanging around in this catbox. Not surprising on a chat forum, say what? And in this day and age when people complain that no one reads, writers are a species to be celebrated.

And sometimes, the only ones around to do the job are themselves.

So saith Fudd.

Subject: RE: BS: So who here's a writer?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 05:20 AM

I work for a tax collector....

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: So who here's a writer?
From: John Hardly
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 09:29 AM

I was published in Ceramics Monthly (October 2006).

Subject: RE: BS: So who here's a writer?
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 23 Nov 06 - 10:27 AM

One of my songs (Little Jim) was included in an anthology of stories about the great Alaskan earthquake of 1964. The book is titled "The Day Trees Bent To The Ground". I was the only author who was allowed to contribute a tale without actually experiencing the earthquake. All proceeds from the book go to the Anchorage Senior Center.

Mike