Reading Stephen King's ON WRITING again, and it's a little depressing to read how much he got paid for short fiction in the 1970s. The pay rate hasn't gone up in fifty years.
Marko Kloos
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I tell lies for fun and profit. Author of the Frontlines and Palladium Wars series of military SF/space opera. Wild Cards consortium member.
Look, I try not to judge people too harshly for their shortcomings, but if you drive past a cow or horse and don't say "Cow!" or "Horse!", you are a monstrous psychopath.
Remember the time after 9/11, when the Republicans told us that "the Constitution is not a suicide pact"?
Good times, good times.
German has the best word for headlights: "Scheinwerfer", "shine-throwers."
"People everywhere were being told that this war was no continuation of politics by other means, no traditional struggle for limited objectives. It was a fight to the death with the forces of evil, and the stakes were survival and civilization itself. It is no simple thing to make people believe such things and later persuade them to accept a settlement based on compromise."
--G.J.Meyer, "A World Undone: The Story of the Great War"
The first book in the Frontlines spin-off series has a cover and a release date...and a product page with a pre-order button. How convenient!
In which I hold forth on acquired tastes and yummy ammonium chloride.
Forget race, religion, political affiliation, sex, or gender. The world only divides into two kinds of people: the ones who say "Biiiiiig stretch" when they see a pet stretching, and soulless psychopaths.
Movies about writers never show the part where the author writes three paragraphs in six hours and then deletes two of them.
You think English has a lot of dialects that are sometimes hard to understand even for native speakers?
Well, I watched the first episode of a Swiss detective show, and the Swiss German was so thick that I had to turn on subtitles. If I had to make an analogy in English, it was sort of like someone from Boston going to Scotland and trying to make sense of a conversation between two Scots speakers.