Re: Story

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

On 11/5/2022 10:46 AM, Bob La Londe wrote:
> 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.
>  Â 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.
>  Â 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?)Â  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.
>
>
>

However, I have never flown an airplane of any kind inverted, nor was I
ever a passenger in an inverted airplane of any size.

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