You writers, you

[darkbow]

After a string of 'we love your story, but not quite enough to buy it' rejections, I have decided to place the blame firmly where it belongs. Not on the editors. Not on the market. Not even upon myself.

I blame the rest of you writers.

So, I thought I would come here and ask ... no, beg ... the rest of you to stop writing such good stories. Yes, I need you to start writing garbage, just so I can break my dry spell and get something published.

Come on? Whaddaya say?

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[Gbondoni]

Don't blame the rest of us... Blame Thirdy! He seems to be getting all the available spaces, whether fiction or poetry in every SF publication uner the sun.

[J Erwine]

Gustavo-That was the first thing that popped into my head too!



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[crystalwizard]

darkbow said...
After a string of 'we love your story, but not quite enough to buy it' rejections, I have decided to place the blame firmly where it belongs. Not on the editors. Not on the market. Not even upon myself.

I blame the rest of you writers.

So, I thought I would come here and ask ... no, beg ... the rest of you to stop writing such good stories. Yes, I need you to start writing garbage, just so I can break my dry spell and get something published.

Come on? Whaddaya say?

Garbage is the only thing I ever write. That's the problem. You need to stop writing good stuff and start writing garbage ;)

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[darkbow]

I would if I could just find an editor who would print garbage. And pay a buck a word for garbage. That would be cool too.

Ya gotta dream.

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[crystalwizard]

darkbow said...
I would if I could just find an editor who would print garbage. And pay a buck a word for garbage. That would be cool too.

Ya gotta dream.

It's one thing to dream, it's another one to go comatose and slip into a fantasy world.

[Michael2007]

crystalwizard said...
It's one thing to dream, it's another one to go comatose and slip into a fantasy world.I do that every time I sit down to write. Huh, maybe I do have write garbage if I want sell something...




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Gustavo said...
Don't blame the rest of us... Blame Thirdy! He seems to be getting all the available spaces, whether fiction or poetry in every SF publication uner the sun.Totally. It's Thirdy's fault. Bad Thirdy!Bad! /emoticons/devil.gif

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[MichaelEhart]

I am hereby changing my name to Thirdy. I suggest you all do the same.

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[J Erwine]

MichaelEhart said...
I am hereby changing my name to Thirdy. I suggest you all do the same.


I like that idea, and I think I shall join you. Would that make me Thirdy the Third?

I like the sound of that...


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[darkbow]

Just wait until the next editor gets twenty stories all from a writer named 'Thirdy.'

I see ... I see ... a waste basket in the future for those stories.

/emoticons/wink.gif

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[Jordan Lapp]

OR.... a THIRDY THEMED ISSUE. Radical.

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[darkbow]

Or ... thirty days of Thirdy stories at EDF?

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[Jordan Lapp]

LOL. It would be too expensive to rename the zine ;)

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[darkbow]

Hmm.

Maybe Vandermeer would change 'Weird Tales' to 'Thirdy Tales.' Or 'Weird Thirdy.'

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[Thirdy Lopez]

You guys do realize that if all of you all changed your names to Thirdy, I intend to take all the credit for each acceptance... and post it on the Brag thread? /emoticons/lol.gif

Aurelio Rico Lopez III aka "Thirdy" has had fictionfeatured in COLD FLESH (Hellbound Books), THE BLACKEST DEATHI, II, and III (Black Death Books), STAR-SPANGLED ZOMBIE (Maniac Press), RAW MEAT (Sideshow Press), SHADOW BOX (Brimstone Press), TRIP THE LIGHT HORRIFIC (RAGE machine Books), DEAD MEN (AND WOMEN) WALKING (Bards and Sages), and THE BOOK OF SHADOWS VOL. I (Brimstone Press). His poems have appeared in Mythic Delirium, Star*Line, Dark Animus, Goblin Fruit, Scifaikuest, Electric Velocipede, Sybil's Garage, The Horror Express, Down In the Cellar, and elsewhere.

[Gbondoni]

No sweat, Thirdy... We have the form letter of congratulations primed and ready for action!

[New Writer]

Thirdy, you get the paycheques too! /emoticons/lol.gif

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[darkbow]

Thirdy Lopez said...
You guys do realize that if all of you all changed your names to Thirdy, I intend to take all the credit for each acceptance... and post it on the Brag thread? VIEW IMAGE (/emoticons/lol.gif)


Aw shucks, I thought that's what you were already doing anyway!

I mean, come on, who the heck has 500 sales in one month?

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[Jordan Lapp]

Hmm... Freaky idea. Maybe Thirdy is some huge collective of writers all posting under one name, some kind of author-borg waiting to assimilate us all. *shiver*

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[iryadragyn]

Oh that's creepy.

Tell us it isn't true Thirdy!!

lol


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"Barbie's Revenge." FLASHSHOT (http://www.gwthomas.org/flashshotindex.htm), Forthcoming: Dec. 10, 2007
"Library Gnomes." FLASHSHOT (http://www.gwthomas.org/flashshotindex.htm), Forthcoming: Oct. 28, 2007
"Ghosts." Tuesday Shorts (http://www.myspace.com/tuesdayshorts), October 2007
"Strange Candy." MicroHorror (http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/heather-kuehl/strange-candy/), October 2007
"Trick or Treat." MicroHorror (http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/heather-kuehl/trick-or-treat/), October 2007
"Pumpkin Carving." MicroHorror (http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/heather-kuehl/pumpkin-carving/), October 2007
"The Kiss of Death." MicroHorror (http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/heather-kuehl/the-kiss-of-death/), September 2007

[Thirdy Lopez]

We deny everything... He he.

Aurelio Rico Lopez III aka "Thirdy" has had fictionfeatured in COLD FLESH (Hellbound Books), THE BLACKEST DEATHI, II, and III (Black Death Books), STAR-SPANGLED ZOMBIE (Maniac Press), RAW MEAT (Sideshow Press), SHADOW BOX (Brimstone Press), TRIP THE LIGHT HORRIFIC (RAGE machine Books), DEAD MEN (AND WOMEN) WALKING (Bards and Sages), and THE BOOK OF SHADOWS VOL. I (Brimstone Press). His poems have appeared in Mythic Delirium, Star*Line, Dark Animus, Goblin Fruit, Scifaikuest, Electric Velocipede, Sybil's Garage, The Horror Express, Down In the Cellar, and elsewhere.

[Michael2007]

...and resistence is futile!





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[tchernabyelo]

I just wanna know what happened to Firsty and Secondy...

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Yi Qin stories:
"The Box Of Beautiful Things" - IGMS#3
"The Man Who Was Never Afraid" - Abyss and Apex #20
"Where No Wind Blows" - Staffs &amp; Starships #2 (forthcoming)
"What The Sea Refuses" - Black Gate (forthcoming)
"At Blue Crane Falls" - Abyss and Apex (forthcoming)

Other Land Of Wind And Ghosts stories:
"The Dragon Path" - Fictitious Force (forthcoming)
"Three Out Of Four" - Sorcerous Signals (forthcoming)

Stories in other settings:

"The Unicorn Hunter" - OG's Speculative Fiction #8

"When Winter Came" - ASIM#32 (forthcoming)

[iryadragyn]

Firsty and Secondy went to bed, Thirdy rolled over and both were stuck dead.

lol


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"The Date." FLASHSHOT (http://www.gwthomas.org/flashshotindex.htm), Forthcoming: 2008
"Barbie's Revenge." FLASHSHOT (http://www.gwthomas.org/flashshotindex.htm), Forthcoming: Dec. 10, 2007
"Library Gnomes." FLASHSHOT (http://www.gwthomas.org/flashshotindex.htm), Forthcoming: Oct. 28, 2007
"Ghosts." Tuesday Shorts (http://www.myspace.com/tuesdayshorts), October 2007
"Strange Candy." MicroHorror (http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/heather-kuehl/strange-candy/), October 2007
"Trick or Treat." MicroHorror (http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/heather-kuehl/trick-or-treat/), October 2007
"Pumpkin Carving." MicroHorror (http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/heather-kuehl/pumpkin-carving/), October 2007
"The Kiss of Death." MicroHorror (http://www.microhorror.com/microhorror/author/heather-kuehl/the-kiss-of-death/), September 2007

[Jordan Lapp]

Firsty's and Secondy's houses were both blown down. Luckily Thirdy saw fit to make his house out of brick...

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