Re: Story

[Bob La Londe <none@none.com99>]

On 11/4/2022 7:53 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
> 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)Â  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
>
>

I hesitate to write things like this that could be interpreted as a
brag.  To often in recent years I've shared anecdotes from my life and
been told I was a full of shit bullshit piece of shit lying sack of
shit.  **

Honestly though I don't consider this to be all that impressive.  I
can't ten finger type.  I never published a book, and I never really got
paid to be a writer.  Its just a hap hazard group of secondary fumblings
throughout my life over the course of 40ish years that paired with a
little imagination allow me to occasionally crank out three consecutive
sentences that are readable.

However, thank you.  I appreciate the recognition for them.

Example: **
One of my favorite actual brags used to be that I have been in business
literally my entire life since I was four years old.  My mom explained
to me the concept of profit.  She told me that if I bought candy bars
and put them on the shelf in the family store it wouldn't be to long
before I could buy more boxes to replace them, and have money left over.
  I used the money my grandmother sent me for Christmas to put
merchandise on the shelves of our store.  I was in business at age four.
  That was a bit of a brag, but it really wasn't intended to indicate I
was a business mogul at such a young age.  Just that I have spent my
entire life learning small business concepts.  I shared this in a
machining group not to long ago.  I was accused of being a liar, taking
credit for my mom's hard work, and that there was no chance at age four
I was anything more than a pants shitting drooling blob.  That I was
totally full of shit that had to totally be lying through my teeth.
(Unless you were toothless how else would one lie?)  I tried to explain,
but soon there were dozens of people piling on.  The shear mass of
derision made it impossible for me to take the time to refute it all.  I
just left the group.  The reality is its true.  I did understand, but
how can I prove that.  I can't.  Just that I have always done better as
an entrepreneur than as an employee.  I never thought of it as
exceptional until I was attacked for it.  I just thought it was a choice
based on opportunity and education from a caring mother.

I have other anecdotal memories, no doubt colored by time, that might be
met with similar disbelief.



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