Re: Story

[ABLE1 <somebody@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/5/2022 2:17 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
> 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 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 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.

Well Bob, now you went and did it...................

I have flown inverted, jumped out of a perfectly good plane at 3000
feet, flown a glider, flown a helicopter, flown a Cessna 152 backwards
on a runway, flown a Cessna 152 in freezing rain until at full throttle
just above stall speed then landed, flown a (part owner) Ultra Lite,
and many other experiences that would take a long time to read.

Les