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Chain Smerker the liberated - 26 Jul 2009 10:50 GMT
Can you please let me know if I am a good writer? I want to self
publish and make alot of money.

Thanks. Below is some of my book which I am writing.

The Fruity Adventures of Martha and Stuart

It was a dark and stormy night, the thunder was doing a regular boom,
crash opera that made the two characters of this story a bit antsy as
they hid in the cave from the thunder gods powerful storm.

They were scared of the thunder god because they were primitives and
primitives are stupid.Oh yeah, this is set in the way olden days. Like
6000 years ago.

“Stuart!” Said Martha looking down at Stuart.

“What!” Said Stuart looking at Martha with what looked like a boner
tenting in his loin cloth.

Martha said in a tone of naughtiness “Are you carrying lunch down
there or are you just pleased to see me?”

Stuart blushed and said with a look of desperation “I wish it was
lunch Martha. I am so hungry I could even eat one of those berries”
pointing at Martha's pelvis area.

Martha went red in the face as she remembered why Stewart and her were
cast out by the tribe of Wing Wangs who inhabited that area.

You see, It all started about 10 years ago when they were married off.
On the day of the wedding Martha and Stewart went through the Taming
of the Fish ceremony like all newly married couples did.

The Taming of the Fish ceremony took place in the chief priests sacred
tent,  involved the entire tribe and was regarded as one of the most
important rituals of the Wing Wang culture.

The ceremony involved the lady person stripping down and all the male
folk extending their tongues and licking out the newly married lady.

The idea was that by giving the lady person so much oral on the night
of the wedding she would get sick of it, causing her not to ask her
male companion for it ever again.

After many hours of slurping away one of the elders noticed something
strange, he felt intelligent. Almost too intelligent so much that he
got up, put on a fresh vine leaf, sat down and created calculus.

Then all the other men noticed the same thing, they were smart, like
real smart. So smart that the thunder god started to sh.t his pants.
“WTF!” the thunder god said. “They gonna be like me, that cursed
womans juices are intoxicating the men with brain smarts!”

So the thunder god came down from the clouds and did a magic trick
making everyone dumb again then said to Martha “You have made the men
folk smart with your feminine magic, now you will be cursed for like,
ever!”

Then the thunder god waltzed over and looked down in disdain at the
sh.t-scared humans. Adjusting his belt he thundered, “You shall
forever have a poisoned berry bush growing on your bush and whatever
man shall eat, or touch it with any of his bits will surely die.”

Martha and Stewart were ever so gob smacked by all that went down that
they ran into the jungle wailing and weeping, sooking and blabbering,
crying and not feeling 100%.

And ever since that day Martha and Stewart have been wondering the
Earth in search of a cure for the horrible curse of the poisoned bush.

They traveled  here and there, to and fro, up and down and round and
round seeking out all the magic men but no one could cure her.

And now they finded themselves in a cave, cold, hungry, horny, gassy
and rather depressed.

Martha glared at Stewart and said “You know you can not eat these
berries, if you do you will die”

Stewart stared at the cave wall, thinking about this life and muttered
“Maybe a life without frontal intercourse isn't a life worth living”

Martha shook her head and started to cry, believing that she was at
fault for their predicament. Stewart feeling sorry for making her
upset walked over and stroked her hair saying “Sorry Martha, I didn't
mean it. You still give this best hand job a guy could ask for”

Martha smiled and and reached under Stewart's loin cloth squeezing his
soft balls in her hand whispering in his ear “At least we can still
eat the fruit from these berries”

Stewart grinned like a deer caught in the headlights of a police car
after it just ate the wrong kind of wild mushrooms while he was
quickly milked of his seed, now dripping delicately onto the floor.

They then both bent down and lapped up the seed. Stewart's seed was
the only food they had in the cave and although slimy and not the
tastiest thing around it provided some relief to their aching
stomachs.

Once they wiped their mouths the storm cleared and Martha and Stewart
left the cave to go food hunting.

Wondering through the jungle plains they came across a gay tiger who
said in a whiny voice “Helloooo thar, I am Mr scary tiger from the
furfargy tribe of furries”

Martha and Stewart were slightly taken a-back by the talking
effeminate tiger as tigers were usually really manly and they ate
people. This tiger looked like it just wanted Stewart's boy pussy and
only ate at fast food restaurants.

Stewart said “meekly” to the tiger, meekly.

The tiger said “Meekly? I do not understand your language”

Stewart said “Oh, well in the language of Wing Wangs its means we are
hungry”

The tiger paused and had a look of seriousness on his furry face.....
contrex - 26 Jul 2009 11:03 GMT
On 26 July, 10:50, Chain Smerker the liberated <mdwyer1...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> X-No-Archive: Yes
>
> Can you please let me know if I am a good writer? I want to self
> publish and make alot of money.

Don't quit the day job.
Chain Smerker the liberated - 26 Jul 2009 11:23 GMT
> On 26 July, 10:50, Chain Smerker the liberated <mdwyer1...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
>
> Don't quit the day job.

Thank you for your feedback.

However I don't buy into negativity. I can and will create my own
reality with a positive attitude and focus. Any positive advice from
contributers here would be appreciated.

Thank you.
contrex - 26 Jul 2009 11:52 GMT
On 26 July, 11:23, Chain Smerker the liberated <mich...@subgenius.com>
wrote:

> However I don't buy into negativity. I can and will create my own
> reality with a positive attitude and focus.

[rolls eyes] But if you only want positive advice, why don't you make
it up yourself? You seem more than capable of concocting bullshit. PS
Learn how to spell "contributor".
Chain Smerker the liberated - 26 Jul 2009 11:55 GMT
> On 26 July, 11:23, Chain Smerker the liberated <mich...@subgenius.com>
> wrote:

> [rolls eyes] But if you only want positive advice, why don't you make
> it up yourself? You seem more than capable of concocting bullshit. PS
> Learn how to spell "contributor".

Because if I made it up it would not be real.

You should realise that language evolves and what appears to be miss-
spellings are really just the language evolving. Language is a life
form and I am its petrie dish.
James Hogg - 26 Jul 2009 12:15 GMT
Quoth Chain Smerker the liberated <michael@subgenius.com>, and I
quote:

>> On 26 July, 11:23, Chain Smerker the liberated <mich...@subgenius.com>
>> wrote:
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
>spellings are really just the language evolving. Language is a life
>form and I am its petrie dish.

Many people prefer other kinds of culture than what you get from
a petri dish.

The answer to your original question is: No.

If you want more positive advice it could be phrased thus:

Try some other form of self-expression.

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Chain Smerker the liberated - 26 Jul 2009 12:21 GMT
> Quoth Chain Smerker the liberated <mich...@subgenius.com>, and I
> quote:
[quoted text clipped - 26 lines]
> --
> James

I guess my goal in life is to prove you wrong, Mr Editor of the works
of Eric Landers. When I get my first interview by the press about my
book I will mention what you said to me.

Now I am going to re-watch "The Secret"
James Hogg - 26 Jul 2009 13:26 GMT
Quoth Chain Smerker the liberated <michael@subgenius.com>, and I
quote:

>> Quoth Chain Smerker the liberated <mich...@subgenius.com>, and I
>> quote:
[quoted text clipped - 27 lines]
>of Eric Landers. When I get my first interview by the press about my
>book I will mention what you said to me.

I just thought I ought to declare my expertise in
comparative meleagrology.

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Radix Lecti Artemia Salina - 26 Jul 2009 12:05 GMT
>> On 26 July, 10:50, Chain Smerker the liberated <mdwyer1...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
[quoted text clipped - 13 lines]
>
> Thank you.

While your fine piece of writing made me applaud like a seal that was
high on ketamine mixed with speed, I really think the opening of the story
needs something to catch the reader's attention.

How about, "BANG! BANG! BANG! Three shots ripped through my groin, and it
was then that I knew this wouldn't be an ordinary day."

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Chain Smerker the liberated - 26 Jul 2009 12:12 GMT
On Jul 26, 9:05 pm, Radix Lecti Artemia Salina <y...@sheayright.com>
wrote:

> >> On 26 July, 10:50, Chain Smerker the liberated <mdwyer1...@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
[quoted text clipped - 23 lines]
> --
> Ultra-Potent Hyper-Honcho.

Thank you Radix Lecti Artemia Salina.

However I am not sure how to work something like that in to a story
set 6,000 years ago. I guess I could make the "thunder gods" the Anna-
narkies. The intergalatic Drug Enforcement Agency who are chasing
Stuart down. Oh wow. Cool subplot.

Thanks mate.
Radix Lecti Artemia Salina - 26 Jul 2009 12:16 GMT
> On Jul 26, 9:05 pm, Radix Lecti Artemia Salina <y...@sheayright.com>
> wrote:
[quoted text clipped - 35 lines]
>
> Thanks mate.

No problem, Good Buddy, but how about instead, "FWIP! FWIP! FWIP! Three
spears ripped through my groin...."

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Chain Smerker the liberated - 26 Jul 2009 12:23 GMT
On Jul 26, 9:16 pm, Radix Lecti Artemia Salina <y...@sheayright.com>
wrote:

> > On Jul 26, 9:05 pm, Radix Lecti Artemia Salina <y...@sheayright.com>
> > wrote:
[quoted text clipped - 41 lines]
> --
> Ultra-Potent Hyper-Honcho.

Um, I dont have to pay you for this when it gets published, right?
Radix Lecti Artemia Salina - 26 Jul 2009 12:26 GMT
> Um, I dont have to pay you for this when it gets published, right?

Of course not. Only if you use it.

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Chain Smerker the liberated - 26 Jul 2009 12:31 GMT
On Jul 26, 9:26 pm, Radix Lecti Artemia Salina <y...@sheayright.com>
wrote:

> > Um, I dont have to pay you for this when it gets published, right?
>
> Of course not. Only if you use it.
>
> --
> Ultra-Potent Hyper-Honcho.

But I already have edited the chapter and I plan on publishing through
https://www.createspace.com in a month or so.

Im selling the book for $8.99 and it will be on AMAZON cool hey!

If I use what you said to me, im guessing you should get about 1cent
from every book sold. Deal?
Radix Lecti Artemia Salina - 26 Jul 2009 12:36 GMT
> On Jul 26, 9:26 pm, Radix Lecti Artemia Salina <y...@sheayright.com>
> wrote:
[quoted text clipped - 13 lines]
> If I use what you said to me, im guessing you should get about 1cent
> from every book sold. Deal?

Are you sure you're not a professional writer? You're too shrewd to be a
hobbyist.

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contrex - 26 Jul 2009 12:16 GMT
On 26 July, 12:12, Chain Smerker the liberated <mich...@subgenius.com>
wrote:
> On Jul 26, 9:05 pm, Radix Lecti Artemia Salina <y...@sheayright.com>
> wrote:
[quoted text clipped - 35 lines]
>
> Thanks mate.

I think you should stick with alt.slack. You seem to fit in there
better.
Chain Smerker the liberated - 26 Jul 2009 12:22 GMT
> On 26 July, 12:12, Chain Smerker the liberated <mich...@subgenius.com>
> wrote:
[quoted text clipped - 41 lines]
> I think you should stick with alt.slack. You seem to fit in there
> better.

Yes, clearly you peoples are more stiff shirted then the t-shirt
wearing populace of alt.slack.

Good day Sir.
Radix Lecti Artemia Salina - 26 Jul 2009 12:31 GMT
>> I think you should stick with alt.slack. You seem to fit in there
>> better.
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
>
> Good day Sir.

As Moderator of alt.english.usage I don't think you should let this
guy chase you away. There are at least five or ten other people who read
this group, and this guy surely doesn't speak for them all.

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Chain Smerker the liberated - 26 Jul 2009 12:36 GMT
On Jul 26, 9:31 pm, Radix Lecti Artemia Salina <y...@sheayright.com>
wrote:

> >> I think you should stick with alt.slack. You seem to fit in there
> >> better.
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> --
> Ultra-Potent Hyper-Honcho.

it is alt.usage.english not alt.english.usuage

Because. If it was alt.english.usage it would mean, how to use THE
English. As in the pommies.

The correct terminology is alt.usage.english as it is about the usage
OF english.

Anyway. I better get some sleep. But yeah, im not going to let the man
get me down.

All I need is a positive attitude, hard work and self confidence and I
will get anywhere I want to be in this life. After all, lfe is a open
book and if you have the courage to take control of the pen, of the
writing of the book, you will go places.

And I am going to go places. Mark my word. I already feel better
talking to you, so much so that I am going to add you to my
acknolegments page.

Thanks again.

Good night.
Radix Lecti Artemia Salina - 26 Jul 2009 12:42 GMT
> On Jul 26, 9:31 pm, Radix Lecti Artemia Salina <y...@sheayright.com>
> wrote:

>> As Moderator of alt.english.usage I don't think you should let this guy
>> chase you away. There are at least five or ten other people who read
>> this group, and this guy surely doesn't speak for them all.

> it is alt.usage.english not alt.english.usuage

Oh... Well in that case I am NOT the Moderator here.
I'd better get back to alt.english.usage. There are at
least five or ten people there who want to post stuff.

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Toilet Pepper - 26 Jul 2009 17:02 GMT
On Jul 26, 7:42 pm, Radix Lecti Artemia Salina <y...@sheayright.com>
wrote:

> > On Jul 26, 9:31 pm, Radix Lecti Artemia Salina <y...@sheayright.com>
> > wrote:
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
>
> --

Can I be the moderator of this place? And I want half of your penny,
Sea Monkey!
MC - 26 Jul 2009 12:35 GMT
In article
<fe20b74b-c8e8-4839-9112-491918901993@i18g2000pro.googlegroups.com>,

> X-No-Archive: Yes
>
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
> crash opera that made the two characters of this story a bit antsy as
> they hid in the cave from the thunder gods powerful storm.

<SNIP>

Next stop the Booker prize! You are a GREAT writer!

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HVS - 26 Jul 2009 13:41 GMT
On 26 Jul 2009, MC wrote

-snip-
 
> Next stop the Booker prize! You are a GREAT writer!

(cross-post trimmed to AUE)

Dunno 'bout you guys out there, but as I really don't fancy AUE
getting crossposted to something called alt.slack, I think I'll mark
this thread "ignore"....

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Athel Cornish-Bowden - 26 Jul 2009 14:29 GMT
> On 26 Jul 2009, MC wrote
>
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> getting crossposted to something called alt.slack, I think I'll mark
> this thread "ignore"....

I agree. Still, a question occurs to me: could this be elanders under a
new name? The litarary style puts him in mind.

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Athel Cornish-Bowden - 26 Jul 2009 14:31 GMT
>> On 26 Jul 2009, MC wrote
>>
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> I agree. Still, a question occurs to me: could this be elanders under a
> new name? The litarary style puts him in mind.

I see that this thought also occurred to James. I didn't see that
immediately because for some reason my newsreaders decided to list this
as two threads.

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Chuck Riggs - 27 Jul 2009 11:22 GMT
>On 26 Jul 2009, MC wrote
>
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
>getting crossposted to something called alt.slack, I think I'll mark
>this thread "ignore"....

Whoever did it, I hope he does not do it again. I suspect the source
of the crossposts was an alt.slack member, for I can't imagine an
AUEer doing it.
What a stream of nonsense I saw crossposted from them today.
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Default User - 27 Jul 2009 18:01 GMT
> Whoever did it, I hope he does not do it again. I suspect the source
> of the crossposts was an alt.slack member, for I can't imagine an
> AUEer doing it.
> What a stream of nonsense I saw crossposted from them today.

Some newsreaders allow the user to filter on cross-posted newsgroups.
That capability was a major criterion when I selected my current one.

Brian

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LFS - 27 Jul 2009 21:32 GMT
>> On 26 Jul 2009, MC wrote
>>
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> AUEer doing it.
> What a stream of nonsense I saw crossposted from them today.

I don't really want to lower the tone again but reading the first part
of Chuck's second sentence gave me pause...

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Maria Conlon - 27 Jul 2009 23:47 GMT
>>> -snip-
>>>
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> I don't really want to lower the tone again but reading the first part
> of Chuck's second sentence gave me pause...

The second sentence beginning with "I suspect the source...." or the
second paragraph beginning with "What a stream...."?

I'm obviously missing something.
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Bob Martin - 28 Jul 2009 06:34 GMT
>>>> -snip-
>>>>
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>
>I'm obviously missing something.

Not really.  It was probably a ref to "a slack member".
LFS - 28 Jul 2009 08:37 GMT
>>>> -snip-
>>>>
[quoted text clipped - 17 lines]
>
> I'm obviously missing something.

Second sentence, Maria. But you're too refined to be distracted by the
notion of a slack member.

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Chuck Riggs - 28 Jul 2009 16:35 GMT
>>>>> -snip-
>>>>>
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>Second sentence, Maria. But you're too refined to be distracted by the
>notion of a slack member.

From the alt in alt.slack, perhaps the spammer had the alternative to
a slack member.
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Maria Conlon - 28 Jul 2009 17:24 GMT
>>>>> -snip-
>>>>>
[quoted text clipped - 21 lines]
> Second sentence, Maria. But you're too refined to be distracted by the
> notion of a slack member.

Too refined? Nah. Maybe just innuendo-challenged. (nd maybe it's better
to have people think I'm not at all well-acquainted with slack members.

But enough of this. It reminds me of a conversation quite a while back
(in AUE) in which something was said about needing a cigarette now.

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Tater Gumfries - 26 Jul 2009 15:24 GMT
On Jul 26, 3:50 am, Chain Smerker the liberated <mdwyer1...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> X-No-Archive: Yes
>
[quoted text clipped - 119 lines]
>
> The tiger paused and had a look of seriousness on his furry face.....

That's pretty exciting. Tater'd read it, specially if it was published
as a serial, like Dickens. In fact, Tater thinks you might have a
little Dickens in you.

Tater
Derek Turner - 26 Jul 2009 15:33 GMT
> X-No-Archive: Yes
>
> Can you please let me know if I am a good writer? I want to self publish
> and make alot of money.

<Snip drivel>

O God! have we really another six weeks of the school holidays to endure?
Jeffrey Turner - 26 Jul 2009 15:50 GMT
>> X-No-Archive: Yes
>>
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>
> O God! have we really another six weeks of the school holidays to endure?

And it can't even spell "smirk."

--Jeff

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Chain Smerker the liberated - 26 Jul 2009 22:31 GMT
> >> X-No-Archive: Yes
>
[quoted text clipped - 13 lines]
> depended upon an abundant supply of
> the poor. --Voltaire

Dear Sir,

"It"?

Anyway, you will all be proved wrong soon enough.
just john - 26 Jul 2009 19:14 GMT
>> X-No-Archive: Yes
>>
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>
> O God! have we really another six weeks of the school holidays to endure?

Chain Smerker is in Australia.  So I imagine school is in session near him.

So ... alt.usage.english .... This is where our language goes to get used?

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Tater Gumfries - 26 Jul 2009 19:19 GMT
> >> X-No-Archive: Yes
>
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
>
> So ... alt.usage.english .... This is where our language goes to get used?

Tater's pretty sure this been said before, but alt.usage.english is
where language goes to die.

Tater
contrex - 26 Jul 2009 20:35 GMT
> > Chain Smerker is in Australia.  So I imagine school is in session near him.

They have schools in Australia? I never knew...

Teacher: Right cobbers! This is the end of the sheep we shag, and this
(points to head) is the end we kiss!

Kids: Fair dinkum!

One kid: That sheep looks like my mum!

Other kids: She *is* your mum!

Mum: You're all baaaaaaaaad boys!
Zapanaz - 27 Jul 2009 00:19 GMT
>> > Chain Smerker is in Australia.  So I imagine school is in session near him.
>
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
>
>Mum: You're all baaaaaaaaad boys!

ouch.

That was awful.

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