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This is why i'm trying to get published
But apparently publishers are afraid of a book where cops die by the hundreds and the ending has the protagonists taking over the US's nuclear missile silos and starting a 2nd Civil War
I figure i might need some more clout before anyone wants to touch that right now
Which is why i'm writing up something called I KILL WIZZARDS
I think it'll probably end up a comic or animated series
My current literary project has the Chinese invading the USA. I can dream, can’t I? 🥺
This was the original version of the 2012 Red Dawn, but they changed it to the DPRK so they could make money in China. Apparently it still wasn't released in China
Except don’t the good guys lose in red dawn? My book has the USA attack china, lose badly, then get invaded and fracture into warring states. I actually wrote the first draft before the iran war started so it’s kind of outdated now 😳.
I don't remember what happens in the shitty new one (all I really remember is the Subway product placement), in the old one all the ”heroic” high school kids die by the end and it's at least a little ambiguous.
Oh lol I only saw the old one and got bored when the kids started winning. It was pretty good until that point though.
Yeah same. I watch a lot of old Cold War crap just 'til us commies start losing, though, most of it's good til then and crap the rest of the way to the end.
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I'm about a 3rd of the way through a SciFi novel about an frozen mining planet that's under occupation but the resistance gets it's hands what's basically a large version of a Star Trek replicator to start 3D printing rockets.
You got something against Rincewind?
Rincewind isn't an immortal god-king forcing the people to toil for his own benefit
I mean, i don't think he is, I never finished all the Discworld books
No but he is the foremost and only wizzard among the disc's wizards
I didn't even notice I spelled wizard wrong until just now
Oh well
Lemme know if/when you get it published, sounds sick
Can I read that first work?
I'll post some snippets soon
I'm going to do some edits over the next week so you'll be getting the real deal
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Why let publishers gatekeep you? Indie publishing is easier than it's ever been (not joking). You do probably have to make a deal with the devil (Amazon), but it's definitely doable.
I'm considering it, but I am shy and really don't want to have to self-promote
But at the same time, it would be nice if I could find an option where I maintain control over my work
Wait until you find out getting published is not lucrative!
Perhaps, but it's something to pass the time while I struggle to find decent work