Showing posts with label Wattpad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wattpad. Show all posts
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Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Why I Post My Works Online
***WHY I POST MY WORKS ONLINE***
As a published author who wants to make money off of my
work, it would seem counterintuitive to post my writing online for the public
so they can read it for free. It’s the old Napster argument all over again. Why
spend money on an album/book/movie when you can have it for free? Will you buy
the whole thing if you like bits and pieces of the medium? Some would argue
this is a great marketing tool for anybody who doesn’t have the corporate
machine backing them. Case in point, rapper Immortal Technique.
At the end of the day, I don’t do it for the marketing. I
could be doing it for the constructive feedback and although it’s nice to have
it, it’s also not the main reason why I post online. In order to understand why
I do this, we have to use the Napster example yet again. Two words: free
storage. That’s right. Why would I want to pay X number of dollars to store my
writing and art when Deviant Art and Face Book will do it for free? These
public forums are hardly my only means of storage since I have three flash
drives and also use my email accounts to store my shit. Maybe I’m just paranoid
about keeping my art safe.
Just think of how badly it would suck if a project you
worked on for years, maybe even decades, was suddenly erased by bullshit means.
I take that same approach to my own art and back it up in as many ways as I
can. Deviant Art, Face Book, Blogger, Good Reads, Wattpad, god knows what else.
But the biggest drawback to this is that if I have to edit a piece of writing
for a small error of some kind, that means I have to visit all of those sites
and make that change. And then I find another small error. And another. And I
have to visit those sites over and over again. Ultimately, I pick my battles
and only edit my works on Deviant Art and Wattpad. Besides, I still have my
email addresses and flash drives, so it’s not a huge deal.
I don’t have a whole lot to say aside from that. Goddamn, I
really didn’t think this blog through, did I? I’m Garrison Kelly! Even when you
feel like dying, keep climbing the mountain!
***LYRICS OF THE DAY***
“I’ve been mad for fucking years. Absolutely years. Been
over the edge for yonks. Been working my buns off for bands. I’ve always been
mad. I know I’ve been mad. Like most of us, it’s very hard to explain why
you’re mad, even when you’re not mad.”
-Dialogue from “Speak to Me” by Pink Floyd-
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Lunatic Justice and Silent Warrior Announcements
***TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS***
I prepared two speeches tonight. Hopefully, I’ll get to use
the one in my left pocket. No, I have no idea what that means either; I just
heard it on an episode of The Shield. Let’s get started, shall we.
***LUNATIC JUSTICE***
First and foremost, it finally happened. My third collection
of poetry, Lunatic Justice, is currently online in paperback and (soon to be)
Kindle format, though it’ll take a few days for the book to actually be
buyable. The poems cover a wide variety of topics whether it’s politics, anger,
violence, drugs, bullying, or even something as simple as being stuck in
traffic. There are a few comedy songs in there too whether it’s the David Bowie
parody “Ground Control to Uncle Tom” or the ridiculously put-together “Conspiracy
Theory”. This book is geared towards mature audiences due to the abundance of
cursing, sex references, and delicious bloody violence.
Good Reads Link: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38324494-lunatic-justice
***SILENT WARRIOR, CHAPTER 7***
Remember how I said a few blogs ago how I would never post
sex-oriented chapters of Silent Warrior online? Well, my lovely beta reader
Marie Krepps suggested that I post them to a safe haven for this kind of
content, Wattpad. I wrote chapter seven two days ago and it’s there now if you
want to read it. I should warn you all that it’s not all hot and spicy action.
There’s some heart-wrenching drama shortly after Scott George gets done
stroking his meat. Your hard-on will be dead by the time this chapter is over.
Wattpad Profile: https://www.wattpad.com/user/Garrison-Kelly
I’d give you all the direct link to chapter seven, but I’m
exercising a little caution with this one since this blog entry is going live
on my non-mature social media accounts.
***SILENT WARRIOR SIDE NOTE: TITLE***
The further I get into writing this novel, the more I
question whether Silent Warrior is the best title for it. Sure, it sounds cool
and all, but Scott George is neither silent nor a warrior. He’s very outspoken
about his opinions and the most violent thing he’s done in this story so far is
strangle Alan Young over the back of a bus seat (not to mention that Alan lives
through the whole thing). Maybe something I can do tonight is brainstorm a list
of possible alternatives for titles. One that I’m thinking about is “A
Community of Worms”, which is a reference to the nightmare Scott has in the
opening chapter. And yes, that nightmare and its characters will factor into
the novel later on, in case you were wondering. I can’t think of any other
title ideas at the moment, so I’ll leave it to you guys to let me know what you
think of all of this.
***LYRICS OF THE DAY***
“I don’t want to spend the rest of my life looking at the
barrel of an Armalite. I don’t want to spend the rest of my days keeping out of
trouble like the soldiers say. I don’t want to spend my time in hell looking at
the walls of a prison cell. I don’t ever want to play the part of a statistic
on a government chart. It’s dark all day and it glows all night. Factory smoke
and acetylene light. I face the day with my head caved in looking like
something that the cat brought in. And they’re only going to change this place
by killing everybody in the human race. They would kill me for a cigarette. But
I don’t even want to die just yet. There has to be an invisible sun. It gives
its heat to everyone. There has to be an invisible sun. It gives us hope when
the whole day’s done.”
-The Police singing “Invisible Sun”-
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