Comments on: here’s the thing

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:28:32 +0000

Fuck haters…

By: Sean

Sean — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 19:48:15 +0000

I think Chuckles should buy a ticket to The Guide To Social Media Success so he/she can come tell us how we’re full of shit in person. Everyone there will think he/she is a douche, and we’ll have his/her money!

By: keven

keven — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:55:57 +0000

@Chuckles

1. Yes she is.
2. I don’t deny that Raymi is attractive. Is that why I read this blog? See #1.
3. You have issues. Seek help.

I hate people that offer unsolicited advice too. As a web developer I put up with this on a daily basis (although my heart goes out to designers here, WAY WORSE). People that can’t even use googlepages tell ME, a professional of 12 years, what I should or shouldn’t do. It DRIVES ME INSANE!!!!!!

When I started reading this blog it inspired me to start my own blog. I’m constantly on here reading your wise advice and applying it to myself and it FUCKING WORKS! When I attempted a blog before, I gave in to so many people saying you should post this or post that. I now say FUCK THAT. I post what I want to post. Don’t like it? Shove it! (see I’ve learned!). So it’s ironic to me to hear that people do this to you as I often find great advice within your rantings and writings. You’ve lived it and learned by it and because of that I’ve learned without living it!

By: i like to write

i like to write — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:43:47 +0000

the probability for writing success is a fairly simple formula: from your contract, find what your final cut (percentage) of each book that sells is and you will know how many you have to sell to reach your profit target.

sadly, as with the music industry nowadays, a writer’s cut is very often less than $2.00 per book. it’s another middleman conundrum that basically begs the question of whether the marketing/advertising that the people representing you take care of is worth their gigantic cut of your book sales. if the answer is no, publish on your own, market on your own and collect all of the profits (after your publishing and marketing costs). either way isn’t easy to be sure, but it is doable. bukowski didn’t get famous and rich from writing until he was 50, but he did it.

also…cliched but true: have something to fall back on. if you end up 30-something making 40k a year in an office like every other average shill, at last you can say you tried and that’s better than most.

By: sofia

sofia — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:03:05 +0000

what bothers me the most is that the negativity isn’t even inspired. it’s just some ugly guy or oldish, lonely bat sitting behind a computer and hammering away something illiterate and hateful to project all their dissatisfaction onto somebody else who they’d never even be able to approach in real life.

By: Kerry

Kerry — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:26:22 +0000

i love you, raymi!

By: King

King — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:49:00 +0000

Right on Raymi.

By: sjm

sjm — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:12:13 +0000

BRAM! KAPOW! KA-BOOM!

By: L

Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:31:28 +0000

i like your point about feelings. so true. so rare these days. therefore your rawness = so refreshing. curious, though, about billy’s insights on “your demographic.” wonder who HE thinks reads you?

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:22:31 +0000

“i wanted to be accepted based on an oh of course we’ll sign her method.”

I designed my whole career, for good and ill, on this very precept.

Love the honesty and passion. People will underestimate you your whole career. good. They won’t see what you’re up to while you’re quietly taking all the money, attention, and opportunity.

There have been times when I wanted to break your head, times when I’ve wondered when you’re on about, times when I would have done something different, but it’s moments – and posts- like this that get me madd passionate about blogging and about how we’re peeps, and makes me proud of you.

Fuck yeah.