Ward Nineteen

Wallace Freedman | 8/28/03 | Wallace Freedman

[Elisha]

Thanks for the link. Very Interesting. Very good writing.

[Elisha]

Please read this, if you get a chance, and let me know what you think.

[lodwick]

Outstanding - thanks for bringing it.

Cheers all.

[Elisha]

Thank You. You're Welcome. Did you make it through the whole thing, or is it too slow, and long?

[Travis McGee]

Can you fit this chapter into the overall work? Is it the very beginning?

[MileHi]

Sheesh, that would make a great episode of "Night Gallery".

Thanks for the ping.

[Elisha]

I have a confession to make. Maybe several.

1. Wallace is a lot closer to me than I originally stated, and therefore, I think I can VERY authoritatively speak for him.

2. Other chapters are mostly in my head.

Good questions you asked. Answers are elusive.

Now that I have read "Sunrise at Coffin Rock," I think I will get Mr Blah Blah, to go to his storage locker, retrieve his mint condition, Patton tank, and go out into the country searching for Thomas what's-his-name...

[Travis McGee]

Do you have a complete outline, start to finish? That's how I did it, and I think it's more suitable for first time authors.

Pros like Sidney Sheldon can dictate an entire bestseller from their current day's thoughts, with no outline, but he has been writing for 60 years! For us, I'd outline every chapter, every character, every twist.

[Jeff Head]

Good stuff...maybe consider having the whole thing be a sort of alternate history of what life would be like in these United States had Al Gore won...or had Hillary run and won.

...proceed to have the bent one become the Secretary General of the UN and with his wife's help, impose the same on the whole world.

The "Sundown II" sequel for this work could be a description of several modern day people coming together afterward, living under the conditions described, and using the internet and other mediums to set up modern day committees of correspondence and safety, similar enough to what the founders did to leave no doubt as to where the story was going to lead.

Just some thoughts and ideas about a well written piece.

Here's my latest excerpt, posted on FR, from Volume IV of my Dragon's Fury Series of novels about a near term Third World War arising out of current events.

I'll BUMP you to that thread.

Thanbks SO much for sharing this with us.

[Elisha]

Thanks for reading it. I hope you enjoyed it. Come back again. Bring your friends! :)

[Elisha]

No Outline. I have been trying the outline thing for years. I can never seem to get through it. But this story is definitely in need of some organization.

I was thinking that the doctor should hand mr blah blah the paper as a reason for allowing him an extended stay.

One of my problems is that I am at odds in my purpose. I would like to write to make some money, but satire of idiots, is fun, and comes so naturally to me.

Unfortunately, it is hard to sell anything so "wrongly" politically biased in this age of "reason".

So,essentially, I posted this, to guage the marketability - to see whether it was worth putting more effort into, or if my efforts would more productively be spent in other pursuits of the wonderful green paper.

[Elisha]

...the bent one become the Secretary General of the UN...

and James Carville, as the prosecutor for the UN Tribunal?

It's bound to me more of a horror than anything that Stephen King has come up with yet.

Thanks for reading, and offering feedback.

[Jeff Head]

Unfortunately, it is hard to sell anything so "wrongly" politically biased in this age of "reason".

Well, maybe so, maybe not.

Read the book called "Term Limits". It's a GREAT thriller read (IMHO) and about as politically incorrect as you can get. But it got published in the traditional sense and sold a ton of copies.

Such stories as that, or as the history of "Unintended Consequences" or even "Left Behind" (both of which are even more Un-PC) can give us all hope with respect to the ultimate marketability of our own works.

Right now, word of mouth is my best friend. Perhaps that will one day equate into larger sales...I'll leave that up to the Fellow upstairs and keep on writing. Got one and a half books to go on a five part series that will end up taking two and a half years to write. It's been a great experience, lots of work, lots of midnight oil, lots of frustration...but in the end very gratifying and fun.

Best of luck to you.

[William Wallace]

Very well done.

I'm sure you and most FReepers know, but a few may have missed the recent "study" by two UCLA researchers (oxymoron). The study lumped together such prominent conservatives as Hitler and Stalin with Ronald Reagan and concluded that conservatism was a form of mental illness.

Judging from the excerpts I read, I wondered if the UCLA study might have been the product of a separate study involving word processors and chimpanzees.

[rootntootn]

A great read. May not be too long before it's not fiction though. Supposedly Hitlery's creatures are gathering soon to decide on which conspriracy model to pursue.

After all they miscalculated in Florida in 2000 and didn't manufacture quite enough votes. They won't miscaculate next time.

[Elisha]

Thanks again, and good luck to you.

[Elisha]

Thank you, Braveheart.

I think this thread covers the "study" that you mention.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/971818/posts

I think I read that the Uncle Sam, actually funded this "study."

[Elisha]

They won't miscaculate next time.

I sure hope, you're wrong about that.

Thanks for your feedback.

[MEG33]

bttt

[Elisha]

Thanks for the bump!