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[Butterbean Head]

I'm thinking either trying to get it published in paperback/hardback form or create a website where people pay to read?

I have around 400 or so real messed up poems as well.

I could take requests and have some kind of forum where other sad bastards can relay stories of delights under neon-lights?

 

[20YearsOnFin]

other sad bastards can

Ive just had a thought where you could find the sad bastards.....

 

[Butterbean Head]

He's too soft for porridge, how about hummus?

It's my Porridge though.

Sloppy seconds.

My liquid self being scooped out by his flaccid farce.

 

[Butterbean Head]

Ive just had a thought where you could find the sad bastards.....

O know know's I'm not taking requests at the moment..............

 

[20YearsOnFin]

It's my Porridge though

Yes but it's 2022, you need to insert more ethnic language to get a book deal.

 

[DyingOfTheLight]

I'm thinking either trying to get it published in paperback/hardback form or create a website where people pay to read?

I have around 400 or so real messed up poems as well.

I could take requests and have some kind of forum where other sad bastards can relay stories of delights under neon-lights?

If you're 100% dedicated your ambition, you'll need a literary agent. If you send in your manuscript straight to a publisher it will end up at the bottom of an endless stack. The most reputed companies are flooded with texts. They receive perhaps, on average, ten a day. ( I know because I was intimately connected to and worked in the art/literary world before doing something useful with my life. And my mother tongue is only spoken by about 20 million people worldwide, so in English the completion will be even tougher)

You can also send in short stories to build up clout as a writer and then send in you manuscript. The more infamy you have, the better terms they will offer you

And if you don't want to deal with all that, you can simply self-publish. The internet is slowly but surely breaking the stranglehold the powerful publishers still have on the literary world

 

[Butterbean Head]

Yes but it's 2022, you need to insert more ethnic language to get a book deal.

I rather be despised than compromise, that ain't no lies.

 

[20YearsOnFin]

You can simply self-publish.

This.

 

[Butterbean Head]

If you're 100% dedicated your ambition, you'll need a literary agent. If you send in your manuscript straight to a publisher it will end up at the bottom of an endless stack. The most reputed companies are flooded with texts. They receive perhaps, on average, ten a day. ( I know because I was intimately connected to and worked in the art/literary world before doing something useful with my life. And my mother tongue is only spoken by about 20 million people worldwide, so in English the completion will be even tougher)

You can also send in short stories to build up clout as a writer and then send in you manuscript. The more infamy you have, the better terms they will offer you

And if you don't want to deal with all that, you can simply self-publish. The internet is slowly but surely breaking the stranglehold the powerful publishers still have on the literary world

Good advice, I know nothing about the bureaucracy of the art world. I do shop at Aldi's after all.............

What language do you speak and where do you reside?

 

[DyingOfTheLight]

Good advice, I know nothing about the bureaucracy of the art world. I do shop at Aldi's after all.............

What language do you speak and where do you reside?

There's nothing interesting to know. I was only an art student but I had my connections and worked as an intern for a while

Writing papers on post-structuralism and doing boatloads of coke with vapid winesipping art thots with delusions of importance


I'm bilingual. To put it pretentiously: the language of my mind is Dutch, but the language of my heart is French. I was only exposed to English much later in life. I live in Belgium but I'm ethnically French

 

[Butterbean Head]

There's nothing interesting to know. I was only an art student but I had my connections and worked as an intern for a while

Writing papers on post-structuralism and doing boatloads of coke with vapid winesipping art thots with delusions of importance


I'm bilingual. To put it pretentiously: the language of my mind is Dutch, but the language of my heart is French. I was only exposed to English much later in life. I live in Belgium but I'm ethnically French

You speak 4 languages then.....impressive.

We are all same aren't we though when you sweep away the silliness of it all.

I have an innate habit of starting something and not finishing.

So much promise in so many things yet I reside in a shared house, work low-status jobs and bareback pro's.

I've done it all to myself and created my own reality, my own prison.

Hence I'm determined to complete this and get it out there.............

 

[20YearsOnFin]

created my own reality, my own prison.

Tie the bed sheets togeather and escape down the drainpipe.

 

[DyingOfTheLight]

You speak 4 languages then.....impressive.

We are all same aren't we though when you sweep away the silliness of it all.

I have an innate habit of starting something and not finishing.

So much promise in so many things yet I reside in a shared house, work low-status jobs and bareback pro's.

I've done it all to myself and created my own reality, my own prison.

Hence I'm determined to complete this and get it out there.............

A bit of Latin as well, but only at an academic level.

That can be the beauty and appeal of art however. You can transform the tragedy of your life into gold. All those wasted years will be finally given singular purpose.

When you're creating art, you're not only working in the present, but you're actively giving meaning to the future while salvaging the past.

It's one of the only ways of total redemption, in a metaphysical sense

 

[Butterbean Head]

Tie the bed sheets togeather and escape down the drainpipe.

To where?

 

[Butterbean Head]

A bit of Latin as well, but only at an academic level.

That can be the beauty and appeal of art however. You can transform the tragedy of your life into gold. All those wasted years will be finally given singular purpose.

When you're creating art, you're not only working in the present, but you're actively giving meaning to the future while salvaging the past.

It's one of the only ways of total redemption, in a metaphysical sense

Good post.

I would like to do something with the poems also.

Most are controversial but at least original.

 

[20YearsOnFin]

To where?

Whitecroft hospital.

 

[Butterbean Head]

Whitecroft hospital.

Good call.

Did I ever relay one of my hobbies is collecting straight-jackets........

 

[20YearsOnFin]

collecting straight-jackets..

Do you try before you buy?

 

[Butterbean Head]

Do you try before you buy?

I get them for free.

 

[20YearsOnFin]

I get them for free.

From where? or is that what all the hookers are wearing when you pick them up?