If Dan Brown can do it, so can you.<\/p>\n
What the hell am I talking about? Why, getting published, of course. And making millions. The man has just about as much talent as your average feedbackslut in your favourite fandom. You know the one — she writes the mpreg….
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\nAnd you can’t say I don’t know. I’ve read a whole shitload of fanfic, and I’m currently listening to Digital Fortress, I heard Angels&Demons, and I’ve read The DaVinci Code.<\/p>\n
The guy sucks an awful lot. All you have to do is change some of your situations, all of your character names, and try to come up with a half-original idea, and you’ve got a publishable story. You don’t have to know how to write — you can use lines like “she’d worked there for five years, but still the place I need to describe but can’t segue into any other way amazed her with blah blah blah….”<\/p>\n
And you don’t even have to change all<\/i> the character names. You can just pretend you’re being witty-realistic by calling your computer expert ‘Jabba’.<\/p>\n
This shit is making me long for the nigh-Biblical wordiness of The Silmarillion. At least that was a decent story….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
If Dan Brown can do it, so can you. What the hell am I talking about? Why, getting published, of course. And making millions. The man has just about as much talent as your average feedbackslut in your favourite fandom. … Continue reading