Another day, another psycho leftist shooter.\u00a0 As I said the other day, be prepared for an almost endless sequence of these suicidal people.\u00a0 Their lives are a misery to them so they want the rest of us to suffer too.\u00a0 Only in addition to everything else that was wrong with this guy he even failed to accomplish what he set out to do.\u00a0 He wanted to kill ICE agents and instead he killed and wounded illegal alien detainees that were in an ICE van.\u00a0 Now that level of incompetence and stupidity really does deserve the Darwin Award.\u00a0 And right there with the shooter\u2019s idiocy, the Left is trying, once again, and to no effect, to question whether the shooter was a Leftist.\u00a0 Well, give it a day or two and they\u2019ll settle for, \u201cHe wasn\u2019t a card-carrying member of a terrorist left-wing organization, which is another way of saying these organizations don\u2019t have cards.\u00a0 Their badges are the crazed looks on their faces and the social media memes and buzzwords of the left.<\/p>\n
Well, enough of that.<\/p>\n
Some of the results from the beta-readers of my novel are coming in and the consensus is that this guy photog must be out of his mind if he thinks anyone is gonna read his awful book.\u00a0 As reader after reader disparaged its characters, plots and even adverbs I was like a cornered wild animal looking for some way to escape the tsunami of negative results.\u00a0 I yelled, \u201cNooooooooooo!!!!!!!!\u201d\u00a0 Well, maybe there weren\u2019t that many exclamation points in real life.\u00a0 But I was pretty busted up.\u00a0 So, I took a bottle of Tylenol and washed it down with a gallon of grape Hawaiian Punch and pretty soon I was really sick.\u00a0 But that took my mind off my book problems while I headed to urgent care.\u00a0 Now that I\u2019ve mostly recovered, I\u2019m happily in denial and working on an alternate reality where I\u2019ve sold more books than James Patterson and am twice as handsome as Brad Pitt but somehow it turned out backwards.\u00a0 I\u2019m unfortunately, twice as handsome as James Patterson and have sold more books than Brad Pitt.\u00a0 You know it really is important to work these things out ahead of time.<\/p>\n
I have an appointment to talk with a marketer who specializes in self-published books and I\u2019m trying to put together a list of questions to ask.\u00a0 At the moment all that comes to mind is, \u201cHow can I become fabulously wealthy from my book without putting in any effort at all?\u201d\u00a0 And I think I\u2019ve nailed it.\u00a0 That is exactly what I want an answer to.\u00a0 But I have this nagging suspicion that there may be more to it than that.\u00a0 I seem to be confusing marketer with the genie from Aladdin.\u00a0 Well, you can hardly blame me.\u00a0 Both of them are in my mind, mythical creatures with supernatural powers.\u00a0 But seriously, this whole book thing has been an interesting experience.\u00a0 I\u2019ve learned that writing is a craft that requires lots of work and especially in the planning stages.\u00a0 Writing a story by the seat of your pants seems more intuitive and natural to me but I now understand that building the story ahead of time saves time at the end when re-writing is extremely painful and maybe impractical.\u00a0 Well, the journey continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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