Rude author blasts commentor who complains about typos

ficbot · 09-13-2011, 08:21 AM

I debated posting this on my blog, but I am not sure I want to bring this fool's attention down upon me

Anyway, I have been sort of following this blog by a guy who claims to want to sell 500,000 ebooks by Christmas. He posted about finally finishing the next 'part' of the book (he seems to be releasing it in novella-sized installments) and in the update he says this:

Part One has now been downloaded or read by some 6,500 people. I just hope that I haven't given them any ideas. And so, as my experiment continues into its third month, I have a total readership of almost 7,000. OK so there are some typos in part one, but I am a passionate guy. I don't have time to read my own book 100 times before I publish. I write, smoke, drink and publish. Battaboom battabing. Typos are for my editor to sort out when I eventually get a publishing deal. If?

He gets a comment about how, as a sole proprietor author type, they actually ARE his problem. And he responds today with an epic rant, the high point of which was this:

Lastly and most importantly: Can you understand this? TXT U 2MOZ. The world is changing. Are semi-colons and colons so vital anymore? If I write the city of Lindon, do you realise that I actually meant London? Of course you do. So get off your high horse and tell your network of Ebook bloggers to go ind fcuk themselffs.

Umm...wow. I hope he actually does NOT sell 500,000 books, just so this doesn't validate his nasty attitude as being a good business strategy. Anyway, if anybody wants to go comment to this idiot, feel free

DiapDealer · 09-13-2011, 08:30 AM

That blogger is an attention whore. This ignorant outburst will only help him garner even more. Best SEO tool there is.

mr ploppy · 09-13-2011, 08:45 AM

It worked on me

Lalilulelo · 09-13-2011, 08:45 AM

Sounds like another adolescent of the internet. "Let me tell you how unique I am before I address the issue."

Where's the news now in this, dear Anonymous...

joenunya · 09-13-2011, 08:49 AM

High strung, unbalanced but always fun to watch, authors always seem to show why publishers, agents and other layers of abstraction are oh so important for many authors. I wonder how many greats of the past would likely have been exposed as the rude maladapted nutbars they really were in real life.

Thanks for the very funny link. Maybe the guy is simply channeling his inner Harlan Ellison?

Sil_liS · 09-13-2011, 08:57 AM

Do we have a champion to bring death to English grammar?

RainingLemur · 09-13-2011, 10:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sil_liS

Do we have a champion to bring death to English grammar?

Rap has been around for a while.

Sil_liS · 09-13-2011, 10:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RainingLemur

Rap has been around for a while.

Maybe he is a rapper.

mr ploppy · 09-13-2011, 11:33 AM

I think most of the best creative types are mentally damaged in some way. This guy raises an interesting point, but I think he's looking at it the wrong way around.

http://www.mikeoliveri.com/2011/08/0...ff-themselves/

It isn't so much that writing as a profession leads to mental illness, I think it's more that writing attracts a lot of people with mental illness. It's something you can do on your own, and until fairly recently you never really had to interact with "normal" people.

Jacquelyn Smith · 09-13-2011, 11:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RainingLemur

Rap has been around for a while.

LOL!

Reality show stars are also champions of the cause. I've lost count of how many I've heard say things like 'conversate'. *shudder*

The writer sounds like a complete tool.

anamardoll · 09-13-2011, 11:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ficbot

Lastly and most importantly: Can you understand this? TXT U 2MOZ. The world is changing. Are semi-colons and colons so vital anymore? If I write the city of Lindon, do you realise that I actually meant London? Of course you do. So get off your high horse and tell your network of Ebook bloggers to go ind fcuk themselffs.

Research Fail.

rhadin · 09-13-2011, 11:50 AM

Better yet is his ending:

Quote:

More importantly than the last most importantly: The one thing that seperates me from any of you boys out there is this...I DO NOT READ. I don't read other people's books, I don't watch movies, I don't speak to anyone. I am never influenced by anyone else. When you read my stories you are reading my mind and If I have to apologise for that then so be it.

I surely do not want to waste my time reading material written by someone who doesn't read. It is through the osmotic process that occurs while reading that authors learn to write better than when all they have ia blank slate.

I find myself amused by his assertion that he remains uninfluenced by anyone. He must live in an incubator sans windows.

Sil_liS · 09-13-2011, 11:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mr ploppy

I think most of the best creative types are mentally damaged in some way. This guy raises an interesting point, but I think he's looking at it the wrong way around.

No, no, he's not mentally damaged, he's just trying to prove that you don't have to read to write:

Quote:

More importantly than the last most importantly: The one thing that seperates me from any of you boys out there is this...I DO NOT READ. I don't read other people's books, I don't watch movies, I don't speak to anyone. I am never influenced by anyone else. When you read my stories you are reading my mind and If I have to apologise for that then so be it.

anamardoll · 09-13-2011, 12:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rhadin

I find myself amused by his assertion that he remains uninfluenced by anyone. He must live in an incubator sans windows.

No movies, no TV, no books, no music, no talking to people ever? If only he'd cut out the internet. I think that would be a wonderful solution for everyone involved.

But, no, seriously, as previously called: this is someone trying to be a professional troll.

Andrew H. · 09-13-2011, 12:41 PM

The guy is not writing. He's typing.

09-13-2011, 08:21 AM	#1
ficbot Wizard Posts: 2,409 Karma: 4132096 Join Date: Sep 2008 Device: Kindle Paperwhite/iOS Kindle App	Rude author blasts commentor who complains about typos I debated posting this on my blog, but I am not sure I want to bring this fool's attention down upon me Anyway, I have been sort of following this blog by a guy who claims to want to sell 500,000 ebooks by Christmas. He posted about finally finishing the next 'part' of the book (he seems to be releasing it in novella-sized installments) and in the update he says this: Part One has now been downloaded or read by some 6,500 people. I just hope that I haven't given them any ideas. And so, as my experiment continues into its third month, I have a total readership of almost 7,000. OK so there are some typos in part one, but I am a passionate guy. I don't have time to read my own book 100 times before I publish. I write, smoke, drink and publish. Battaboom battabing. Typos are for my editor to sort out when I eventually get a publishing deal. If? He gets a comment about how, as a sole proprietor author type, they actually ARE his problem. And he responds today with an epic rant, the high point of which was this: Lastly and most importantly: Can you understand this? TXT U 2MOZ. The world is changing. Are semi-colons and colons so vital anymore? If I write the city of Lindon, do you realise that I actually meant London? Of course you do. So get off your high horse and tell your network of Ebook bloggers to go ind fcuk themselffs. Umm...wow. I hope he actually does NOT sell 500,000 books, just so this doesn't validate his nasty attitude as being a good business strategy. Anyway, if anybody wants to go comment to this idiot, feel free

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09-13-2011, 08:30 AM	#2
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 27,552 Karma: 193191846 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	That blogger is an attention whore. This ignorant outburst will only help him garner even more. Best SEO tool there is.

09-13-2011, 08:45 AM	#3
mr ploppy Feral Underclass Posts: 3,622 Karma: 26821535 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Yorkshire, tha noz Device: 2nd hand paperback	It worked on me

09-13-2011, 08:45 AM	#4
Lalilulelo Enthusiast Posts: 41 Karma: 7298 Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Algeria Device: Sony PRS-T1	Sounds like another adolescent of the internet. "Let me tell you how unique I am before I address the issue." Where's the news now in this, dear Anonymous...

09-13-2011, 08:49 AM	#5
joenunya Banned Posts: 120 Karma: 234858 Join Date: Jun 2011 Device: kindle4pc	High strung, unbalanced but always fun to watch, authors always seem to show why publishers, agents and other layers of abstraction are oh so important for many authors. I wonder how many greats of the past would likely have been exposed as the rude maladapted nutbars they really were in real life. Thanks for the very funny link. Maybe the guy is simply channeling his inner Harlan Ellison?

09-13-2011, 08:57 AM	#6
Sil_liS Wizard Posts: 4,896 Karma: 33602910 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: PocketBook 903 & 360+	Do we have a champion to bring death to English grammar?

09-13-2011, 11:33 AM	#9
mr ploppy Feral Underclass Posts: 3,622 Karma: 26821535 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Yorkshire, tha noz Device: 2nd hand paperback	I think most of the best creative types are mentally damaged in some way. This guy raises an interesting point, but I think he's looking at it the wrong way around. http://www.mikeoliveri.com/2011/08/0...ff-themselves/ It isn't so much that writing as a profession leads to mental illness, I think it's more that writing attracts a lot of people with mental illness. It's something you can do on your own, and until fairly recently you never really had to interact with "normal" people.

09-13-2011, 12:41 PM	#15
Andrew H. Grand Master of Flowers Posts: 2,201 Karma: 8389072 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Naptown Device: Kindle PW, Kindle 3 (aka Keyboard), iPhone, iPad 3 (not for reading)	The guy is not writing. He's typing.

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