This & That 2

[NekoParks]

Douglas Adams

I, Robot by Isaac Asimov was really good. (The movie was certainly different)

Did you ever read The Hitchiker's Guide to The Galaxy by Douglas Adams? The books are much better than the movie.

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I was going to suggest Douglas Adams too. The Hitchiker's series has five books. Right now on Amazon, you can get all of the books in one volume for less than $12. Also, his Dirk Gently books are terrific. I think his sense of humor would appeal to you.

http://www.amazon.com/Ultimate-Hitchhikers-Guide-Galaxy/dp/0345453743/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1362973868&sr=1-1&keywords=hitchiker%27s+guide+to+the+galaxy

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Story #20 is now up and getting a 911-Hamburg style one-bombing. Reader reaction to story content is an ongoing education for whats likely to help or hurt scores. An EMOesque teen fucking the guy next door is cool, a pregnant wife dismissing her cuck husband with I LOVE YOU LIKE A BROTHER and I HATE BEING AROUND MEN WHO CRY gets smacked hard.

LIT is a good laboratory to learn what's what.

To this end I wanna discover whats most toxic and powerful, and leave the pansy bouquets to my colleagues.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

My 2nd crop of broccoli is ready to harvest. My youngest daughter is coming for a visit this week, so I'll have broccoli and cabbages to give her.

Harvesting blueberries now. I think I got a full cup of them in 2012, and looks like maybe a quart this year. The berries are much bigger than they were in 2012. In April I plan to add more bushes.

Planted seeds for 50 corn stalks. Thats 100 ears.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Looking at the jobs forecast for America the niggerization of the nation keeps rolling along. That is, the jobs with the most growth and growth potential are elderly care aides, temporary labor, maids, servers, etc; all of them jobs that blacks did back in the 50s. Peasant labor.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Been in the books this morning, reviewing examples of what makes powerful prose.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Joseph M. Williams STYLE: Toward Clarity and Grace, is prolly the best how to write book I know of. He breaks prose down to features that make prose powerful, and shows how to perform the magic, using samples of bad prose written by prominent people.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Story #21 went up this morning. My LW one bombers will have new fits. I get hate mail and poems about lynchings and other vitriol from these 'fans.' My white wife fan base loves the stories.

Story #22 is almost ready for launching. Its more of the same. White wife humping black guys bareback but makes hubby wear a condom. He holds her hand and licks her fingers when the guys come over to play.

The trailer trash series evolved into a three-some with Ma, Sonny, and his EMOesque teen queen (19 for our safety and convenience). Miss EMO's daddy is in prison, and she covers for her momma's bastard children, and is okay with Sonny's fondness for his momma.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Submitted story #23 today. #24 and #25 are on the assembly line.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Working on improving my skill with minimalist writing style.

To my way of thinking the minimalist destination is prose thats as Spartan as listening to people fuck with your ear pressed against the wall, or looking through thin fabric to see a woman's private parts, or capturing sexual intelligence hidden in conversation.

There are no YOU ARE HERE markers or AMERICAN PIE symbolic decipherings. Imagination is the readers guide star.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I learn something from Death every time she comes. In my imagination Death is female. The female gives life and takes it. Man's role is to struggle between birth and death.

What I learned lately, when Death visited my world, is how painful it is when what fills our lives with joy, or sorrow, goes. I dont know which is worse, loss of joy or loss of hope.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Submitted another 1200 word tale. It coulda been longer but I'm learning to prune prepositional phrases, rid the garden of nominalizations, and toss whatevers not essential. So I prolly cut 300 words from the new effort.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Started writing a black woman/white male LW tale. She's an ER MD, he's an ER nurse, ex Navy Corpsman, amateur boxer. Her husband is pulling his last tour in Afghanistan before retiring.

She's full figured, 5-9, 200 pounds, size 16. What we used to call a Quadroon, down South.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Did some black woman research on YOUTUBE: WHY BLACK WOMEN LIKE WHITE MEN.
And with that I set up the first sentence and opening paragraph. "Sergeant Major Leroy McCabe fucked up and sent his wife a sexy email intended for his girlfriend."

Fidelity is a problem for the sisters.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Buried my nose in another Joseph M. Williams writing book today. He said that his intent was to put writers into the mocassins of readers. I'm slowly absorbing the lessons, but its painful, and plenty of what he counselled conflicts with the gospels of popular writing books. Like, use the passive voice when it makes the reading easier. Or use the passive voice when youre clueless of who the actors are, or want to conceal them from the reader.

 

[slyc_willie]

I learn something from Death every time she comes. In my imagination Death is female. The female gives life and takes it. Man's role is to struggle between birth and death.

What I learned lately, when Death visited my world, is how painful it is when what fills our lives with joy, or sorrow, goes. I dont know which is worse, loss of joy or loss of hope.

Loss of hope. You can remember joy; harder to remember hope. As soon as the basis for that hope is gone, so is the optimism for that particular thing. We expend energy when hoping for something, and when all avenues have been abruptly erased, that energy can't be seen as anything other than a wasted effort.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Loss of hope. You can remember joy; harder to remember hope. As soon as the basis for that hope is gone, so is the optimism for that particular thing. We expend energy when hoping for something, and when all avenues have been abruptly erased, that energy can't be seen as anything other than a wasted effort.

I dont feel so bad with lost causes, some folks are longshots going in, and no hope is involved in the relationship. My grandmother usta rescue abused and congenitally defective animals, and you just knew up front that the outcome wasnt gonna be wonderful.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Watched an incest tutorial vid yesterday. The female (daughter) was as skanky and trashy as I prefer, and the male (daddy) was cut from the same bolt of 'phony tough' cloth that I know so well, but they werent dad & sis. She looked older than what she claimed, 30 not 21, and he wasnt as old as he needed to be. Plus she had a wedding ring and flabby baby tummy (she said she was never pregnant), but babies spread hips and leave loose skin behind. He reminded me of every young alcoholic I've ever met.

Gonna add some toxic waste to my trailer trash series. Let one of the players win the lottery, to see what money does to people. I already know. It amputates you from your natural environment and puts you at the mercy of smarter and nastier predators. Think Beverly Hillbillies without the laugh track.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Spent the evening reading more Joseph M. Williams writing tutorials, but he didnt write so well. What he recommended he hadnt mastered: DONT TAKE YOUR GUNS TO TOWN, SON, LEAVE YOUR GUNS AT HOME, BILL, DONT TAKE YOUR GUNS TO TOWN. That said, the lessons are worthwhile.

Working on a tale this morning where the first bit of business is identifying the destination: trailer trash girl buys a scratch-off lottery ticket and wins a pot of money. Then I take a step back to: how'd she get to the Quickie Mart to buy the ticket? Answer, she was out scouting for a roomier trailer with her honey and his momma.
Another step back, howcome? Cuz she and momma made a deal to share Sonny Boy in the same home, and one bedroom aint cutting it.

So now I gotta shoehorn the sex in somewhere, before Sonny fetches momma from the hospital. Maybe....Sonny Boy can send trailer trash barbie after momma while he pokes the book-keeper at work.

Solved the problem. The boss's wife's car wont start so our hero takes the tow truck to the house to fix the problem.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

FESS UP!

After reading some of the high rated stories I'm puzzled that they have any admirers at all. While lower rated stories are almost masterworks.

So fess up! Do you enlist friends, family, and everyones alts to boost your ratings? I suspect you do.

 

[JackLuis]

How are your doing in numbers of reads Jim?
I've noticed that once my story is off the "New" chart, reads drop like a stone. Although I get a few Favorites here and there readership falls fast.

Of course it would probably help if I was more prolific.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Hey Jack? I put you on IGGY cuz youre an asshole.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Finished my trailer trash story project for today. Submit it tomorrow. Sex with the bosses wife in the first 1/3, heart to heart confrontation tween momma and the girlfriend in the 2nd 1/3rd, and the girlfriend wins big off a lottery scratch-off ticket at the end. Its the new format for me. Drama, excitement, sex.