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I’ve copied and pasted all that and it is now my career.
Seriously, I’m going to look at it. The podcast got put on ice but I’m picking it up again next week, an episode a week, so I have a portfolio of work.
If any of my work ever really pays it would make me immensely happy. The Pantone Blues work, it’s over half a million words of writing spanning over 10 years. It’s been a number of live shows, I won an award for Best Writing on a Blog and it’s now a podcast. I’ve had a few celebrity readers, whatever that’s worth, but it started here, in the ‘I Hate...’ thread, with me saying, ‘I hate reprographics...’
It isn’t over, but I really want to say thank you to all of you amazing people for helping me and encouraging me, for giving me a push when I mentally bonked, for buying my book, for giving me a couch or a bed or a beer or a hand. It’s been brutal at times, probably even darker than my stories portray, but through it all I’ve always had support from this forum, a common thread, my first internet home. I’ve not ‘made it’ I know, I’ve simply got out of jail. The next step is to move on, move up, grow, create, learn how to love work mates and not secretly mock them, heal a bit, and have fun.
I thought of this forum the very second I said I’d go.
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General_Lucifer
@HatBeard
your pantones blues story has an ending now. start out with some of the more recent ones to show you've had your fill in early chapters, jump back to the early days to show a bit of youth and optimism, stick some of the real low points at the final stretch and finish on the big fuck you. sprinkle the smut and scatalogical ones throughout.
give some of the players an arc through the stories, IGB gets the promotion but loses all, big reveal near the end that FAD is your own brother. etc etc
take to a publishers, get them to do all the legal shit to stop you getting buggered up the old bailey, publish, go on Good Morning dressed as the lurve pirate and sweep phil and holly both off their feet. become celebrity. start an art collective with banksy.