Posted on 09/06/2016 8:28:53 AM PDT by Olog-hai
When the totalitarian thug has his jackboot firmly implanted on your neck, he will be the first to remind you that you have access to free healthcare.
“So do people in prison.”
Cuba is just an open-air prison.
Like we don’t know our enemy?
And 100% literacy!
We more than know our enemy. What we need is strategies and ideas to more effectively attack them.
“He employs others to do the writing. He provides a detailed outline with inflection points called “beats”.”
I’ve always suspected as much. It sounds like you have a better understanding of the details of how such a writing franchise works. Lots of money involved. After it’s written, I’ve suspected that there’s a whole other process of selling products in the story, such as in place of using a generic term, there’s marketers who do nothing but sell the rights to a name brand company. Instead of a character going to a restaurant and ordering a drink, the character goes into a Hyatt and orders a Bacardi. All of it cheapens the quality of the ‘work’ in favor of doing everything to rake in the dollars.
“You can read one of his books in nibbles in the bathroom”
It wouldn’t surprise me at all if the length of the chapters are actually designed to correspond with the length of time of it takes for the average dump.
Patterson is not shy or reclusive. He hosts classes and writes articles on his method. He’s very proud of it. People compete to work for him and he’s glad to inform anyone of the superiority of his marketing method.
Google his name and the various tips and quotes will be there.
Name the people flying in for Cuba care.
Also they have a crumbling everything, no new cars in 50 years.
Their armies are probably financed by Russia or China or both
Bunch of bunk.
Perfect tag line, by the way.
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