Ask a Faber & Faber author anything. I won't, however, reveal my identity. Happy to discuss everything else though.

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Anonymous Tue Feb 17 13:11:10 2015 No.6155269 [Reply] [Original]

Ask a Faber & Faber author anything. I won't, however, reveal my identity.

Happy to discuss everything else though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 13:17:09 2015 No.6155281 >>6155269 Favorite font Do you own and use an ereader

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 13:19:23 2015 No.6155288 >>6155269 Will Faber & Faber publish my Andromeda fan fiction? It's pretty good.

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 13:20:21 2015 No.6155293

>>6155269
how was your day?
can you hear church bells?
can you describe what you see when you look out your window?
does your name start with an F? G? S?
the weathers nice today, heh? or is it cold and rainy, silly me i wasnt outside today.
how much is your rent?
tell us more about you! ))

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 13:23:44 2015 No.6155313 >>6155281 Great questions. Favourite font is probably something normal, sadly. Probably Arial. Nice, sans serif. I do own an ereader, I have a Kindle. It's all right.

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 13:25:01 2015 No.6155318

>>6155288

I dunno, I'd guess no. But I have an agent so have little knowledge of what they would or wouldn't commission. I'd assume, however, they wouldn't even look at it unless you had an agent submit it.

I also assume you're joking, but answered in case you weren't.

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 13:28:29 2015 No.6155328

>>6155269
Have your publishers ever requested changes to you work(s) beyond the ordinary suggestions of the editor? If so, what were the changes, and why did they ask for them?

How much do you care about and put work into managing your literary pedigree? How do you see yourself in this regard?

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 13:28:57 2015 No.6155334

>>6155293

These questions might identify me, so I'll answer them carefully.

My day was all right, quite busy.

I can sometimes hear church bells, at work.

I see nothing outside the window because it's dark. Usually, though, another person's house and a road.

No, no, no.

It was sunny, but cold, today.

My rent is actually pretty low at the moment, virtually peppercorn - which is fucking handy for writing.

I like Italian food.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 13:29:19 2015 No.6155335 The only author I know off the top of my head is published by F&F is Willy Vlautin. And I respect him too much to entertain the possibility that he's on 4chan. Y-you're not W-willy Vlautin a-are you?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 13:32:55 2015 No.6155347 what kind of music do you listen to? what are your favorite books and authors? what are your favorite F&F books and authors? what's the worst thing you ever said someone that you don't regret?

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 13:33:02 2015 No.6155348

>>6155328

I don't know if it's extraordinary, but I was tasked with quite a significant word count reduction and a fairly brutal edit. However, it was for the best, so it's all fine now.

Managing my literary pedigree? Do you mean in relation to Faber?

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 13:37:34 2015 No.6155356

>>6155348
At Faber, by yourself, either way. Basically, how much reluctance, enthusiasm or obligation have you felt about writing a story because of notions about your status or eventual place in a "canon"? How much do notions like these affect your choices as a writer?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 13:39:59 2015 No.6155362 >>6155335 Shit. Rumbled.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 13:41:29 2015 No.6155369 >>6155356 I see. I will answer that properly in a little while, as it's comprehensive.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 13:54:21 2015 No.6155402 >>6155347 Again, sorry, just got to have dinner, will answer this properly in a bit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 13:55:42 2015 No.6155405 >>6155269 What's Faber & Faber? What fiction genre is the easiest to get published?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 13:57:12 2015 No.6155412 what is a step-by-step way to get either short fiction or poetry published by a reputable publisher, assuming that the material is good and marketable at all?

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 15:55:01 2015 No.6155728

>>6155347

I listen to all kinds of music, a real broad range. When writing, I listen to film/ game scores and classical, basically anything without lyrics.

Favourite Faber authors is a hard one. Probably unexpected to pick contemporary, and non-fiction, but I really like Charlie Brooker.

PD James is another good'n, purely because she ultimately made the movie version of Children of Men happen.

Read all sorts, really, don't tend to fall into a particular category. Not precious about literature in the same way a lot of people on here are.

I don't really regret anything. I guess when I was a teenager, I was a bit of a prick. Used to be really mean to this girl about her weight. Can't pick out specifics, but I've definitely said shitty things to people that I wouldn't say as an adult. Dunno if I REGRET them in that sense, because I was young, but would rather I hadn't said them.

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 15:56:07 2015 No.6155732

>>6155269
I look through the porthole
I sail into the sea
the depth of any soul
left a hue in me

I watch with affection
to part blushing from blue
it is my affliction
my one restriction; you

My eyes do the calling
why do we turn apart
I can part the Red Sea
but can I break a heart
-How do I write a better poem?

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 16:00:28 2015 No.6155750

>>6155269

I'm writing a series of interconnected thought-texts, or poems for the mundane, attempting to describe the essence of the talented film actor Emma Stone. Do you think your editor would be interested?

If not, where does he drink, because I want a word with him.

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 16:02:55 2015 No.6155758

>>6155356

This is the tricky tightrope between art and commercial product. I strive to make my books both. I would say, however, I am relatively commercial in style which makes compromises fairly easy.

Now I have gone through the publication process, I have a far greater understanding of the money side of things. Personally, I want to write as a career - I literally want this to be my income. Which means, from the word go, I am writing into a certain box, as it were.

However, I think with success comes freedom. So essentially I am writing relatively safe now, in order to get a platform, and then I can start whipping out the fucking wacky shit and I'll be too established for an editor to question it.

Does that make sense? Or have I answered a slightly different question to the one you asked?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 16:07:40 2015 No.6155772 >>6155758 >with success comes freedom and pussy but money first. then power.

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 16:10:00 2015 No.6155778

>>6155405

Faber & Faber is a large, reputable London-based publishing house. Look em up.

Not necessarily easiest, but commercial stuff is always going to be lapped up if it's good. Crime, thrillers, women's, etc. Even YA and MG - but, of course, that stuff has to be a lot tighter which, contrary to popular belief, is difficult.

In short, GOOD stuff will be easiest to publish.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 16:12:34 2015 No.6155785 >>6155732 Keep writing shit like this and you'll eventually sift out some gold. No lie.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 16:15:00 2015 No.6155787 Do you know where my keys are?

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 16:18:18 2015 No.6155799

>>6155412

Buy the Writers' and Artists' Yearbook if you're in the UK, or the equivalent if you're not. Read relevant sections.

Then get samples together and send them to agents that represent that kind of thing, or directly to publishers. Send exactly what they ask for, not more, not less. Check websites for details, names. Be polite, professional etc.. Obvious stuff.

Short stories and poetry is quite niche shit though, so you'll probably have a short list of places to target but try them all until you get a yes.

If you get all nos, which you probably will, then write something better and repeat the process.

Keep doing this until you win.

It's that simple.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 16:20:29 2015 No.6155805 >>6155732 I thought it was all right. Not that into poetry, but I'd assume having lines like, "the depth of any soul" would be ill advised. Not the best person to ask though, cos I think poetry is for fags.

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 16:25:50 2015 No.6155820

>>6155750

I mean, this sounds fucking weird. Like the kind of thing a judge would read extracts from in a solemn court.

Again, as I said before, if it's actually good then, yes, someone will be interested.

There's a terrible fallacy that publishing is all friends of friends and everyone is fucking each other and no outsiders are allowed. It's simply not true.

If you're a bit good you'll get published if you keep trying. Might take years, but on a long enough timeline it'll happen.

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 16:29:05 2015 No.6155831

>>6155772

I think getting pussy is chicken and egg in this instance. If you're confident enough to get pussy by bragging about achievements such as moderate literary success, you're confident enough to get pussy without it.

There aren't many chicks waiting to suck dicks behind libraries.

Money and power though, they are harder. Hopefully that's just persistence, because I have none of neither.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 16:29:16 2015 No.6155832 >>6155820 >Like the kind of thing a judge would read extracts from in a solemn court. Can I use that on the cover?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 16:30:34 2015 No.6155835 Have you ever, once in your life, legitimately, gone hungry?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 16:31:16 2015 No.6155838 >>6155787 In your right hand jacket pocket. It's hanging up. That or your fat cunt girlfriend has hidden them cos she's fucking losing the plot.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 16:32:27 2015 No.6155842 >>6155832 Please do.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 16:34:11 2015 No.6155848 >>6155835 Legitimately? I assume you mean being so poor I'm unable to eat? Then no. I have been hungry and far from food though. But no, nothing as romantic as poverty I'm afraid.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 16:35:53 2015 No.6155854 File: 4 KB, 259x194, baklavaface.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6155842 Can I use it in court? Will your editor read them? What's his name?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 16:36:51 2015 No.6155860 >>6155848 the rent is too damn high, my friend

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 16:38:39 2015 No.6155864 >>6155787 It's in Daneesha Diamonds VaJayjay Go dig it out.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 16:38:59 2015 No.6155866 >>6155854 Probably not, unless you have an agent. You're clearly a loon, so I doubt you do. However, you could get one if you lay off collecting road kill and murdering hookers for a bit and concentrate on work. Then he might.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 16:44:04 2015 No.6155880 >>6155269 How did you get publish? What's your relationship with your editor? How do you develop a book?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 16:46:33 2015 No.6155886 >>6155880 I did what I said here >>6155799 Then my agent sorted out the deal. Relationship with editor is good, get on well. There have been some stressful times, but generally very positive.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 16:49:14 2015 No.6155896 >>6155886 so you just wrote something and sent it and bingo. Did your editor tell you to change stuff? How much? DId he/she has vetos?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 16:49:49 2015 No.6155901 How many times did you get rejected before you found an agent? How did it make you feel? What kept you going?

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 16:52:14 2015 No.6155907
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>>6155866

Loon is it? I bet that's what they said about Richard Dadd.

Anyway, what about this one? I just wrote it, but I couldn't really post it in the other thread because I'm moving in new direction. It's a curtal sonnet. It was going to be a sonnet but I didn't have enough lines.

Where does your agent play golf? Can I meet her?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 16:52:17 2015 No.6155908 can you get me a book deal? btw I'm a girl

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 17:02:44 2015 No.6155941 >>6155907 what's sad is that it wasn't even bad enough to amuse.

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 17:04:58 2015 No.6155953

>>6155269

OP, do you ever regret being an author?

how/when did you resolve to write full-time?

how much of your work are you proud of?

and what's the biggest literary-quality reversal you've ever experienced, IE loving an author and then losing all interest or vice versa

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 17:09:56 2015 No.6155971 File: 5 KB, 578x332, stonehaik.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6155941 have a haiku then. Fresh out of the haiku maker.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 17:20:30 2015 No.6156003 >>6155971 Punching dirt must be Tough, if your dirt's really ice. She now fellates Bob.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 17:43:06 2015 No.6156073 >>6155896 I wrote a novel, yes. Sent sample chapters to agent. Working with her we edited it a bit, quite a lot actually, then she sent it out to publishers. No vetoes as such, all quite amicable and accommodating.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 17:46:41 2015 No.6156085 >>6155907 >>6155971 I like these, especially the haiku.

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 17:50:30 2015 No.6156095

>>6155758
That makes sense. Does that mean you don't worry that the "safe" material you're writing now will define you as a writer to the point that it affects how people will perceive your eventual unfettered work? Or if it does, you don't care? What I'm wondering, basically, is how much the matter of prestige affects your authorship.

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 17:50:43 2015 No.6156096

>>6155901

I have a folder with perhaps 100 rejection letters, maybe more. Nearly that again in emails. Fucking loads.

However, for the first couple of years, I sent out lots of stuff which was shit. I've had periods where NOT getting rejection letters in the post was disappointing.

For the book that actually got me signed, I have perhaps fifteen rejections and one yes. Which, in itself, is interesting. Goes to show, that there is an element of chance and agent subjectivity.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 17:52:53 2015 No.6156105 >>6155908 Suck my cock and balls and we'll go from there. (Sadly, no, I can't. I could point you in the right direction, but that's probably not worth fellatio.)

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 17:54:32 2015 No.6156111

>>6156096
When did you start reading seriously? How much have you read? How often do you read?

Is it just the one novel you've published or have you published more? Once your foot's in the door like yours, are you pretty much guaranteed to get published again? Or does that come after being published a few times, many rejections between all of the first few?

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 17:55:50 2015 No.6156115

>>6155907

I don't think she does play golf. Besides, submitting to her formally would probably reap more results than bursting up from behind a bunker without any trousers on, waving a handwritten manuscript and aggressively demanding she sign you. Which I know is what you've got in mind.

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 18:00:54 2015 No.6156139

>>6155953

No, don't regret it. Nearly did at some points during harsh editing, but all's well that end's well.

I don't write full-time, I have another job (which is vaguely related to writing, I suppose).

I am proud of most of my work. Quality aside, it is definitely to the best of my ability - and what else can one do?

I don't think my opinions on literary quality have changed. I still like the kind of stuff I have since my teens. If anything, my tastes have broadened.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 18:00:57 2015 No.6156140 File: 10 KB, 647x332, stonelim.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6156115 DOES SHE LIKE LIMERICKS THO?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 18:03:13 2015 No.6156148 >>6156085 You should see the experiemental work from his early period yesterday. People are going to hate this moviement into a new formalism though. But you can't write for your public.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 18:05:04 2015 No.6156156 >>6156139 What's your other job? Is it journalism? What did you read as a teen? What do you read now?

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 18:06:07 2015 No.6156159

>>6156095

I suspect it will define me as a writer, to a certain extent. However, it's of a relatively fun tone and it's very "me", if that makes sense. So even if it becomes synonymous with my name, I'm cool with that.

However, the only way that would happen is if it was a success and if it was a success, then it would compensate for everything else.

I'm sure JK Rowling doesn't mind being associated with Harry Potter, even though I suspect she believes she has lots more to offer.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 18:09:29 2015 No.6156171 File: 9 KB, 670x332, emmalim2.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] ME TROUSIS FELL OFF BY MISTAKE, BLAME THE HABERDASHER SIGN MEEEEEEEEEEE

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 18:13:09 2015 No.6156182

>>6156111

I started reading seriously in my late teens. Was quite a reluctant reader before then. Taking reading and writing seriously sort of happened at the same time. I find things I enjoy absurdly inspiring. Read consistently, but not for as much time as I would like.

So far one novel, one non-fiction book. Another novel written and coming out next year.

Pretty much guaranteed, as far as anyone signed with a good agency is. If I wrote absolute shit, there's a good chance I could struggle to get it published. However, I will do my utmost not to write shit.

Basically I would be more surprised if I didn't get my next work published, than if I did.

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 18:17:46 2015 No.6156198

>>6156156

It is kinda related to journalism, but only vaguely.

I read all sorts as a teen and read all sorts now. Everything really, no genre or quality more than others. Read like a kid with ADHD basically, if someone tells me to read something, I will.

Getting quite into the classics at the moment, reading Dickens. Shit that was forced on me when I was young, and can now properly enjoy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 18:18:37 2015 No.6156202 >>6156159 Okay, that's a good way to look at it. Thanks for answering all my questions!

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 18:18:57 2015 No.6156203 >>6156171 I like you.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 18:21:46 2015 No.6156211 >>6155269 Anyone ask you about the best way to get an agent yet? Without revealing yourself, could you tell how you landed yours?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 18:24:15 2015 No.6156216 >>6156211 Yeah, basically this. >>6155799

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 18:25:53 2015 No.6156223 >>6156202 No probs.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 18:30:19 2015 No.6156236 >>6156216 Awesome, thank you.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 18:30:55 2015 No.6156238 >>6156223 How did you find your "voice"? Is your writing voice much different than your speaking voice?

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 18:37:29 2015 No.6156253

>>6156238

I would say initially replicating, poorly, other's work. This steadily molds, after enough time, into your own style.

Ultimately, writing shit loads is what you need to do. I've got whole finished, polished, novels that will never see the light of day.

I speak relatively articulately, but I'd say my writing is more coherent and less offensive.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 18:40:33 2015 No.6156259 >>6156253 You're a kind person. I hope that your next book will fly off of the shelves.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 18:41:19 2015 No.6156260 How old is OP? And since when have you been interested in writing? How forgiving is the world of being an author/writer? It seems like a fantasy too good to be true to be able to write for a living.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 18:44:12 2015 No.6156266 What is one author or work popularly thought to reside in the "literary canon" that you find overrated or think doesn't deserve the distinction? What is one overlooked author or work that you think should take its place?

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 18:47:42 2015 No.6156272 >>6156259 Thank you. I hope so too. Keep buying books and you may just give me some pocket money.

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 18:52:28 2015 No.6156292

>>6156260
I am 28, and since I was maybe 20.

I think there is quite a wide variety of earners. But I don't think it is as far fetched as people think it is to make a living as an author. If you're willing to persevere, are resonably good and you get your work in the right places, some money will come. As for lots of money, I think that's where luck comes in for the ride.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 18:55:42 2015 No.6156302 >>6156260 Sorry, misunderstood. I am 30 now. Was 28 when got my first deal. I regressed.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 18:57:15 2015 No.6156311 Gonna sleep now. Will answer more tomorrow.

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 18:58:17 2015 No.6156314 >>6156311 Thanks for making this thread, it's been useful and entertaining (that's also thanks to the Emma Stone poet though)

Anonymous Tue Feb 17 19:33:34 2015 No.6156391
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>>6156311

FUCK NO I WANTED TO ASK WHERE YOUR AGENT'S KIDS GO TO SCHOOL I LIKE KIDS BUT I WENT IN THE BATH AND WRIT ANOTHER POEM I EVEN PUT SOME EXTRA LINES IN THIS ONE COS I WAS A BIT SHORT ON THE LAST SONNET

>>	Anonymous Tue Feb 17 20:32:10 2015 No.6156572 >>6156391 alright, fuck it, you won me over

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 05:53:59 2015 No.6158360 >>6156391 Yeah, that's the best one so far.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 05:59:34 2015 No.6158373 >>6155269 How disappointed are you that Routledge turned down your PhD?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 06:06:43 2015 No.6158398 File: 9 KB, 275x183, 1420493686034.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6155907 kek you're the guy who posts emma stone, aint u? get help

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 06:55:45 2015 No.6158518 >>6158398 >half a dozen poems about Emma Stone >you're the guy who posts emma stone, aint u? R U a detective?

Anonymous Wed Feb 18 07:11:02 2015 No.6158548
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>>6158398

Thanks for the leopard thing, I was short on inspiration early doors.

HEY MR. RITER MAN WHEN YOU GET BACK FROM WORK I'LL BE WAITING FOR YOU AND I DON'T MEEN IN THIS THREAD LOL J/K NOT RILLY J/K I MEAN IT HAHAHAH

Anonymous Wed Feb 18 08:56:29 2015 No.6158756

Hey OP, Londonfag here with a novel that's been rejected a bunch of places, currently writing another.

1. What job do you work when not writing (you seem to imply you work a normal job on the side)

2. What age were you when you were first published (ignore if you think this gives you away)

3. How many works have you published?

4. Did you work a full-time job before getting published, and if so what did you do?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 09:01:17 2015 No.6158770 >>6158756 Sorry for so many questions, and I hope you don't mind some more: 5. Any tips / suggestions on what I can do to help get published or finding an agent?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 09:27:59 2015 No.6158821 >>6158770 You could read the thread m8. Might save yourself some knobache.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 09:30:27 2015 No.6158826 >>6155269 Do you have a routine? What's it like? Have you ever been asked what one of your works "mean"? How do you respond to that? Thank you for this thread, you seem like a cool person.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 09:43:57 2015 No.6158857 >>6158821 Yeah I just read the job thing, my bad.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 10:26:13 2015 No.6158962 File: 40 KB, 1036x1058, kipperdstone.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] SOMETIMES THEY TEK ME PENS AWAY AN I HAVE TO WRITE IN POOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 10:30:15 2015 No.6158969 File: 223 KB, 404x507, 1418613839854.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6158962 please make a video when the voices make you do it

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 12:43:06 2015 No.6159326 Have you ever seen TS Eliot's old office at Faber? Do they keep it pristine as a shrine?

Anonymous Wed Feb 18 13:11:12 2015 No.6159400
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M8 IT'S GETTING DARK AND I CAN'T FIND THE LIGHTSWITCH IN YOUR KITCHEN AND I THINK THE NEIGHBOUR SAW ME WHEN ARE YOU COMING HOME? ARE YOU BRINGING YOUR AGENT FOR AN IMPROMPTU CUPPA? I DUN HER ANOTHER CURTAL SONNET

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 13:27:26 2015 No.6159454 >>6158373 It was pretty racist, so accepted it quite readily.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 13:28:26 2015 No.6159457 >>6158518 LOL.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 13:29:07 2015 No.6159462 >>6159454 What was it about?

Anonymous Wed Feb 18 13:36:16 2015 No.6159484

>>6158756

I work for a magazine.

I had my first book deal when I was 22.

I have my second book coming out later this year.

I have worked at my current job full time, but now I work part time.

>>6158770

I wrote a punchy guide earlier in the thread. Here:

>>6155799

Anonymous Wed Feb 18 13:39:36 2015 No.6159497

>>6158826

I have a routine which is more weekly, than daily. Basically I write compulsively, virtually every day I can. Just grind, grind, grind. I think that's the only way. It also helps you take it seriously if you're dedicating the majority of your earthly hours to writing.

No one has ever asked me what my works mean. I'm smart, or stupid, enough to make it obvious.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 13:40:37 2015 No.6159502 >>6159326 No. I dunno, I doubt it. There's some plaques and stuff, but I've only been deep into the HQ a couple of times.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 13:41:48 2015 No.6159503 >>6159462 How Jews killed Princess Diana.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 14:01:35 2015 No.6159551 >>6156182 Do you know anything about what it takes to work in a writing agency or in the publishing world in general?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 14:02:22 2015 No.6159553 >>6159503 Please post I will die of happiness.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 14:11:50 2015 No.6159578 File: 31 KB, 1013x858, filmo.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I DON EVEN SAVE THESE ON ME MACHIIIIIIINE! ITS ANOTHER SONNET I DO EM FOR FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 14:27:27 2015 No.6159612 do you see your own works as having any legitimate literary merit

Anonymous Wed Feb 18 15:26:13 2015 No.6159830
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I'M ALL FUILL OF FOOD AFTER MI DINNER SO I DONE A FREE VERSE EVEN THOUGH IT FEELS LAZY LIKE A MADMAN RAMBLING AND PRESSING THE RETURN KEY BUT EVERYONE GETS LAZY

DID YOU HAVE TO HAVE SEX WITH YOUR AGENT TO GET WORK? WILL I HAVE TO?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 18:24:12 2015 No.6160516 >>6159612 Yes. Very much so. But hidden behind a veil of commercial accessibility. Bridging the gap, as it were.

Anonymous Wed Feb 18 18:28:35 2015 No.6160524

>>6159551

Not a great deal, but there tends to be lots of women. Some of which are literature graduates. Others English etc. kind of degrees you'd expect.

I think it's quite competitive at the top end, lots of eager people willing to intern, do work experience for free, suck all kinds of things. So you've got to really want it, I understand.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 19:55:19 2015 No.6160854 File: 19 KB, 771x618, stonecrit.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] DID YOU THINK I WENT AWAY. I CAN SEE YOU WHEN YOU SLEEP, YOU LOOK RESTED

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 20:05:12 2015 No.6160904 >>6155971 >>6156003 must say 1-0 sorry f&f guy, you been punched by a drunk hobo

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 21:08:43 2015 No.6161146 >>6155831 >there aren't many chicks waiting to suck dick behind libraries You haven't been to America, have you?

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 21:11:32 2015 No.6161159 I only have one question for you. Ask a Simon & Schuster author anything.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 21:29:02 2015 No.6161244 >>6161159 That's not a question.

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 21:35:26 2015 No.6161282 I vote that lit's next book be a collection of poems about Emma stone

>>	Anonymous Wed Feb 18 21:39:00 2015 No.6161298 File: 30 KB, 829x630, stoneconfess.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6161282 I WILL CUT YOU, I WILL CUT YOUR FUCKING FACE

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 05:09:00 2015 No.6162908 >>6161146 Well I'm gonna go now.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 05:10:36 2015 No.6162910 >>6161159 Easy. What's your name?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 05:12:54 2015 No.6162918 >>6161298 This is the best yet. Does Rochester stylings mean what I think it does?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 07:10:07 2015 No.6163159 >>6162918 >Does Rochester stylings mean what I think it does? What does it mean? Am I 2 pleb?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 07:19:05 2015 No.6163170 >>6161298 Well that's disappointing, he backpedalled

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 07:24:19 2015 No.6163185 >>6163170 >backpedalled

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 07:25:53 2015 No.6163187 >>6159484 >I had my first book deal when I was 22. Was it for a novel or what? What age were you when it was published? I was thinking this might be Richard Milward but I'm probably wrong since he's a year or two older than you claim to be.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 07:35:15 2015 No.6163207 >>6163187 I reckon it's Stephen Berkoff.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 07:37:51 2015 No.6163213 >>6163207 >77 years old OP is 28

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 07:39:09 2015 No.6163215 >>6163213 I meant the Emma Stone guy. I'd actually forgotten about OP. I think he fucked off days ago.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 07:40:10 2015 No.6163219 >>6163213 Actors always lie about their age. It's pathalogical with them.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 07:44:30 2015 No.6163231 >>6163187 Is it definitely a bloke? Might be a lass.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 07:45:06 2015 No.6163233 >>6163215 I'm still about.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 07:46:50 2015 No.6163237 >>6163215 Emma stone guy?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 07:49:08 2015 No.6163241 >>6163237 Guy made out of stone called emma, don't worry about it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 08:14:21 2015 No.6163282 >>6163233 Who's your favourite band?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 08:28:01 2015 No.6163313 >>6163282 Hard to answer, but recently I've been getting well into Nick Cave.

Anonymous Thu Feb 19 09:16:05 2015 No.6163383
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>>6163313

He's resurgent at the moment, he's doing pretty well for an old boy. Amazing that he probably released his first album ten years before you were born, and he's still getting new fans.

You're no fun, I wanted to call you a prole for liking Justin Bieber like we were back in middle school.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 09:20:01 2015 No.6163390 >>6163383 I've got a Taylor Swift tattoo on my face, if that helps?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 09:23:36 2015 No.6163398 >>6163390 What, a tattoo that makes you look like Taylor Swift, like a perma-mask? Cool, I guess, if you've got the legs for it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 09:26:43 2015 No.6163407 File: 31 KB, 346x346, taytat.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6163390 I bet it's not as good as this one.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 09:29:45 2015 No.6163414 File: 3.26 MB, 3264x2448, taylor_swift_muse.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6163390 I had mine done on my chest because I'm not a chav. Why don't Faber publish more screenplays eh?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 09:31:19 2015 No.6163418 >>6163398 Yeah, that's it, just her face on my face.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 09:32:27 2015 No.6163419 File: 1.86 MB, 3264x4413, ts.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6163418 You wish. Someone should write a long series of poems about Taylor Swift. She's really quite pretty.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 09:32:42 2015 No.6163420 >>6163407 Why has she got stubble?

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 09:33:43 2015 No.6163425 >>6163420 Presumably when she posed for the tattoo, she hadn't had time to shave.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 09:33:43 2015 No.6163426 >>6163414 Not a chav? Hand written torso tat? Incompatible error 1442.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 09:34:44 2015 No.6163429 >>6163419 She's got squinty eyes and is far too tall. I regret that tattoo.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 09:36:18 2015 No.6163433 File: 373 KB, 1000x700, jellyaf.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6163426

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 09:54:12 2015 No.6163471 >>6163429 >too tall PLEB L E B

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 10:00:21 2015 No.6163481 >>6163471 Not liking little girls? Your hormones are broken.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 10:20:59 2015 No.6163524 >>6163481 No, I just don't go for midget (also being really tall, and a shitty spine my back always hurts, when I lean on them, so I prefer to go close to 180 centimetres or over)

Anonymous Thu Feb 19 10:23:42 2015 No.6163529

>>6163524

All right. I submit that you still prefer girls of relatively low height. For example, Taylor Swift would be just over an inch shorter than me.

I suspect you would prefer a woman to be more than two or three inches shorter than you.

Relativity.

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 10:24:32 2015 No.6163531 >>6163529 Yeah, kinda

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 13:05:59 2015 No.6164010 >>6158548 >I wish I could write Ted Hughes 10/10 influence no wonder these are better than 90% of what gets posted in crit threads

>>	Anonymous Thu Feb 19 21:43:39 2015 No.6166010 Hey faber guy, if you ever come back, does your work as a writer interfere wiuth your day job? Like do you have to go do signings or readings or something and take time off work?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 05:38:44 2015 No.6167422 >>6166010 Not yet, and hopefully not for a while. My day job has quite a lot of flexibility, which is ideal.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 09:07:25 2015 No.6167833 >>6167422 >not for a while Surely signings and readings are when it gets fun for an author - you go on a road trip, get mad pussy, the wife never finds out. It's like being a touring rock star, with considerably lower quality groupies.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 09:26:37 2015 No.6167880 >>6167833 I meant hopefully it won't conflict, not necessarily it won't happen. I need the other job for sanity, as much as for money.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 09:58:55 2015 No.6167992 >>6163185 is this just about the spelling or do you have a thought?

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 11:02:15 2015 No.6168168 >>6167992 the spelling's correct.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 11:13:33 2015 No.6168206 >>6158756 L O N D E N L O N D ON

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 11:19:59 2015 No.6168225 File: 25 KB, 300x400, betjeman.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] 1. How much was your advance? 2. Did you earn out your advance? 3. What royalty rate are you earning?

Anonymous Fri Feb 20 11:28:48 2015 No.6168255

>>6168225

It was 7k per book. Yes, I have already earned out advance on one. I think royalties are conventional, like 10 percent, then up to 12.5 percent at certain milestones. More for hardback, much more for ebook. All pretty standard, so standard I literally don't know the numbers.

>>	Anonymous Fri Feb 20 12:14:39 2015 No.6168408 File: 74 KB, 468x393, betjeman_laughs.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6168255 Thanks for the response.

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