Re: Story

[ABLE1 <somebody@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/4/2022 8:44 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
> On 11/4/2022 4:38 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
>> On 11/4/2022 6:19 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>> On 10/31/2022 5:57 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>> On 10/31/2022 4:34 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
>>>>> On 10/24/2022 2:40 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>>>> On 10/22/2022 10:18 AM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>>>>> On 10/21/2022 7:47 PM, Jim Davis wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Friday, October 21, 2022 at 4:37:12 PM UTC-4, Bob La Londe
>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 10/18/2022 8:20 AM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> Get creative.  Stop rehashing old themes or...
>>>>>>>>> It was either that or ransoming the planet with a giant space
>>>>>>>>> laser.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>> Bob La Londe
>>>>>>>>> CNC Molds N Stuff
>>>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> WELL ! ....... YOU'RE the one who said to be creative    ;-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I guess my idea of creative is different than other folks.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Maybe I should have said creative and ORIGINAL.  LOL.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Now you have a whole new premise to try and do something with/to.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Flash Point was stolen from _________, where as ransoming the
>>>>>> earth with a space laser was stolen from ____________.  A totally
>>>>>> different universe or franchise depending on your level of
>>>>>> suspension of disbelief.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My other premise was NOT stolen from ___ _____ ______ _________,
>>>>>> but I can see where you might think that.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> LOL It would seem that the Story is getting deeper by many many
>>>>> fathoms!!   I hope nobody drowns!!!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure which way I want to go next.  I guess that depends on
>>>> what I find next time I log on.  Whether I want to do damage control
>>>> or just go with the flow in whatever new direction its gone.
>>>>
>>>> I've already over used the Achilles Segue.
>>>>
>>>> (I think I just coined that phrase.)
>>>>
>>>> Remember our new demi-hero Agent Bean may not yet have seen John's
>>>> video clip at the end of the recording.  Certainly Bennie Bean
>>>> hasn't seen it. Â Â I suspect if Agent Bean had seen John defame the
>>>> Secret Service his suspicion level about the whole thing might be a
>>>> bit higher, well, and he wouldn't have needed his ten year old son
>>>> to tell him what he was listening to.
>>>
>>> When I started down this path I was originally thinking very fast
>>> paced hacker-centric action adventure.  Motor cycle chases.  Brutal
>>> police tactics.  Fleeing for you life in the face of overwhelming
>>> odds, and seeking a way to turn the tables in a grand unstoppable
>>> manner.  It has slowed down.  Become more procedural.  With one of
>>> our protagonists now being a ten year old I'm not sure the brutality
>>> of a modern high impact action thriller tells well.  Its not like I
>>> can retell Treasure Island after all.  Maybe Bennie Bean needs to
>>> become superfluous soon. Identify some key points, and leave it to
>>> his dad and the hackers. Obviously Agent Bean needs to learn more
>>> before kicking it upstairs since his own agency has now been
>>> implicated in who knows what.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Hi Bob,
>>
>> It is my humble opinion that you should consider writing a book, get
>> it published, and sell a boat load.  Like Donald Hamilton's Matt Helm
>> books, or Ian Fleming's James Bond.
>>
>> They did it, why not Bob La Londe's Agent Bean??
>>
>> You will never know if it will work, until you try.
>>
>> Honestly with all typing you do in the newsgroups your typing skill
>> could are certainly good enough.  You can't be a "Hunt n' Pecker"!!
>>
>> What is the worst that could happen??
>>
>> You got my VOTE!!!
>>
>> Les
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> I am published for article length work in motorcycling and fishing in
> newspaper and magazines.  (Maybe half a dozen pieces or so.)  Years ago
> I had a web page dedicated to motorcycle games, and White Horse Press
> contacted me to say, "Let us know when you are ready to publish your
> book."Â  I also chat with George Burliss from time to time (publisher
> editor?) with Home Shop Machinist Magazine.  My latest bigger project is
> a video series on manual machining with a piece of shit desktop manual
> mini mill.  I was hoping to sell George on a pairing it with a monthly
> article, but he seemed to want to dumb it down to much for my taste.
> That might just be my perception.
>
> I actually am a hunt and peck typist.  I took typing in high school
> (somehow I passed), and lots of computer programming in college, but I
> never felt comfortable with classical home row typing.  I developed my
> own system that uses some classic typing, and about seven fingers most
> of the rest of the time.  In high school at one point we were told we
> could type anything we wanted as long as we were typing.  When I
> realized the instructor wasn't even collecting it I started writing
> porn.  I left a few copies on the bus, and pretty soon I had guys
> bidding to be the first to get my next fantasy adventure.  I burned out
> on that quick.  There are only so many ways to say Joe got the girl, and
> I was never into the weird stuff.
>
> In college I wrote a story about show of force vs outbreak of violence.
> It was a western short fiction piece.  The college magazine editor loved
> it as did several of the other magazine staff, but their academic
> advisor refused to let them publish it.  He was the classic left wing
> liberal academic before we called them left wing liberal academics.
> Considering some the really creepy stuff they did publish I was still
> surprised.
>
> I always wanted to write science fiction, but everything I wrote in that
> genre was basically juvenile wish fulfillment.  Joe space hero gets the
> girl, and the whole universe gives him ultimate power over everything. I
> never understood the social commentary of science fiction well enough to
> write truly good work like Heinlein (he also wrote some juvenile wish
> fulfillment) or Asimov.  I could read and understand it.  I just didn't
> understand that often that is more important than the science fiction
> adventure.  Of course there is the fantasy science meets real science
> like Larry Niven with Ring World or Neutron star, but I never had a good
> enough grasp of the science for that.
>
> Several years back I wrote an article for an outdoor magazine (that has
> since gone bankrupt), and it was a fiasco of brutal rewrites even after
> I cut out half the real content to meet their maximum word count.  Then
> they stiffed me.  They didn't even want to give me a copy of the issue
> with my article.  They said I could buy a subscription.  That took all
> the wind out of my sails for a while.
>
> Writing is like a lot of things.  Its a lot of fun when you don't have
> to meet a deadline and pay the bills with it, or butcher it to fit
> somebody else's preconceived format.
>
> ... and I have to remind myself.  Just because I have published a few
> small things that doesn't make me a writer.  What skills I do have I
> have to credit to Sarah Sneed.  I had to take two semesters of English
> Composition in college.  I had dropped my second semester twice because
> I got instructors that hit you with a ton of writing assignments, but
> didn't teach anything.  I had steeled myself to slogging through it when
> I signed up for Ms Sneed's class.  She taught.  She taught about
> research, style, and readability.  I don't always use what she taught,
> but I when I don't its a conscious choice.  She taught about that too.
> When to break the rules.  (anecdote below)  She is probably the primary
> reason I have any writing skills at all.
>
> For the final assignment of the semester I had to write a research paper
> on a classic novel.  (not a survey piece)  I took it seriously and did
> it right.  We were told if we turned it in before the end of class
> during final exams it was on time.  I was working on it until the last
> minute doing rewrites, editing, and proof reading.  When I printed the
> final copy I knew I could make it to class before the end of the exam
> period if I hurried.  When I arrived I didn't even bother to park.  I
> just rode my motorcycle right up to the door of the classroom, grabbed
> my saddlebags and headed in to be stopped up short when the door
> wouldn't open.  I turned and saw her walking down the sidewalk next to
> the parking lot.  Afraid she might get away I chased her down the
> sidewalk on my motorcycle, and pulled up short in front of her. Probably
> a little stress leaked out in my tone when I complained she had said we
> had until the END of the period to turn in our paper.  I got an A.
>
>


V-E-R-Y IMPRESSIVE Bob!!

Good read and Thanks for the history!!!

Les