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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAs a wannabe fiction writer
(in my case it's a cheap hobby) I'm discouraged, because as far as the news goes, you just can't make this merde up.
sofa king
(10,857 posts)I just had to cut a novella down to a novelette because my narcissistic President who tries to destroy the world with the Doomsday machine out of spite... is currently running for President. It was absurdist dark comedy in the first draft in 2014. Now it's not funny at all.
Donald Trump cost me thirteen cents per copy in royalties.
Mme. Defarge
(8,040 posts)n/t
Daemonaquila
(1,712 posts)There goes Don the Con wrecking another worker's income.
sofa king
(10,857 posts)It's the smallest possible microcosm of what's going to happen to all Americans if he gets close enough to steal it.
sofa king
(10,857 posts)I've still made three and a half bucks on it, all "profit."
nolabear
(41,990 posts)It's everything fiction shouldn't be. It's a soulless, non-reflective, shallow, short-attention-spanned, deus ex machina screed.
Of course Ayn Rand had no trouble with it. Who knew her horrid little philosophical world would become so real it can no longer be fiction?
Mme. Defarge
(8,040 posts)that I read Ayn Rand at an impressionable age and was not impressed.
Daemonaquila
(1,712 posts)If you did, you'd be accused of writing over the top satire.
brooklynite
(94,698 posts)"A thoughtful, compassionate businessman runs for President to unify the nation, and his eloquent speaking style rockets him into the lead".
Mme. Defarge
(8,040 posts)one sentence summary!
tblue37
(65,483 posts)their material writes itself, but on the other hand, they fret that they are not really needed, since the material writes itself.