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Anonymous Sat Mar 14 09:41:46 2015 No.6267663 [DELETED]

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/lit/,

This guy (https://twitter.com/petitprance)) sits on a bench on London's South Bank, with a typewriter, and writes stories for cash.

He's a busking writer. You can also order them from his website - www.petitprance.com.

Is this A) the most absurd thing you've ever heard or B) quite a good idea?

Pic related - one of his stories.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 09:44:28 2015 No.6267674 File: 461 KB, 728x724, Hippity to the bippity.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I personally think it's pretty cool and, every now and then, he writes a fairly good sentence. Although he does look like a proper fag.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 09:44:34 2015 No.6267675 >>6267663 That's pretty bad for someone who writes stories all day.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 09:46:05 2015 No.6267680 >The ever supple Thames lapsed, collapsed, relapsed >A depth beyond deep >Above, the clouds breathed and huffed in puffs There are worse ways to make money, but holy shit that is some truly mediocre writing.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 09:46:32 2015 No.6267682 What if the bench is already taken?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 09:46:39 2015 No.6267685 >>6267663 cliched and vain

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 09:48:51 2015 No.6267694 >>6267682 Then he fucking typewrites those fools into the dirt, and claims his territory.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 09:50:31 2015 No.6267704 >>6267663 >You can also order them from his website - www.petitprance.com. Cool viral marketing, petitprance.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 09:51:32 2015 No.6267706 Shall we brainstorm an idea for a story request? I'll pay for the best one (he asks for donations - I'll offer him continued peace on that bench).

Anonymous Sat Mar 14 09:53:40 2015 No.6267719

>Add £1 to your donation amount for UK postage or £2 to post it round the globe.
>
>If you can't write everything in the paypal form, just send me an email.
>
>Pay what you can afford. I’m trying to make my living like this, and every person who has the tenacity to support that humbles me. Thank you for being part of it.

let's flood him $0.25 requests for fart porn and mythical beast orgies

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 09:55:43 2015 No.6267728 >>6267706 OP here. I ASSURE you, I ain't that nigger. Incidentally, I am actually a writer myself and would NEVER identify myself on 4chan. Jesus. Think it through.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 09:57:19 2015 No.6267736 Get a load of this fucking artisanal ebegging: http://shop.petitprance.com/magicitems/thesixthousandpoundstory/

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 09:57:58 2015 No.6267741 >>6267719 Yeah, or a first-person confession written from the perspective of a notorious, necrophiliac, paedophile. Please send to Scotland Yard.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 09:59:36 2015 No.6267747 >>6267736 OP here again. JESUS Christ. Didn't even see that.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 10:00:53 2015 No.6267753 Please write a story about how niggers and jews orchestrated 9/11. Make sure you sign it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 10:03:10 2015 No.6267761 File: 284 KB, 640x640, tumblr_nkdsqcjpQ01s5e0beo1_r1_1280.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Another story. The thing is, I bet he actually makes a fair bit of money.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 10:12:13 2015 No.6267802 >>6267761 He's a good typist.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 10:21:27 2015 No.6267841 Did he steal this gimmick from Before Sunrise?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 10:25:12 2015 No.6267857 >>6267841 It is mentioned in a Twitter post, does this happen in that movie?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 10:42:01 2015 No.6267935 >>6267761 >experie-ce

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 10:58:00 2015 No.6267990 File: 222 KB, 582x719, Hipda-da-da.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] They're not always good, mind.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 11:14:35 2015 No.6268065 >>6267674 HAHA WHAT A DEGENERATE

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 12:03:42 2015 No.6268252 >>6267674 he looks like a massive hipster

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 16:13:49 2015 No.6269101 That prose is quite purple.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 16:20:15 2015 No.6269120 >>6267663 He writes purple prose about how he's writing in the park for money? And he expects people to pay for that shit?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 16:21:43 2015 No.6269126 No discernible talent. Mediocre prose.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 16:55:09 2015 No.6269242 >>6269126 Is that the title of his next story?

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 17:10:03 2015 No.6269290 File: 109 KB, 1040x746, 1386708843837.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6267663 >A depth beyond deep.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 17:35:02 2015 No.6269393 >>6269290 2deep4u

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 17:39:29 2015 No.6269412 I need him to write a Bush did 9/11 story

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 17:43:10 2015 No.6269430 >>6267694 Local Hipster Bludgeons Homeless Man To Death With Typewriter

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 17:43:16 2015 No.6269431 >>6267663 Lmao whoever buys from that hack is a loser fagot

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 17:56:37 2015 No.6269507 >>6269431 You guys are mean.

Anonymous Sat Mar 14 18:00:49 2015 No.6269530
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>>6267674
I hope this guy freezes to death in the gutter and/or slowly withers away from AIDS while regretting his poor life choices and reflecting on how ashamed his parents must be of him.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 18:03:20 2015 No.6269545 >>6269530 Again, that's very spiteful. However, also quite plausible.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 18:09:15 2015 No.6269571 >>6269530 ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh oooooooooooooooooooooooh oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 18:24:25 2015 No.6269650 He's living the dream. I commend him for it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 19:13:39 2015 No.6269917 >>6269650 I suspect this isn't his dream.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 20:07:23 2015 No.6270144 >>6267663 You can humiliate him by hiring him to write quotidian things like letters to old relatives or legal notices to landlords, etc.

>>	Anonymous Sat Mar 14 20:17:18 2015 No.6270205 >>6267706 I think we've found our ghostwriter for TLOTIAT 3!

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 15 08:04:54 2015 No.6272282 Anyone ordered a story?

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 15 09:46:16 2015 No.6272569 >>6267674 >>6267663 Seems like a massive bellend

Anonymous Sun Mar 15 10:00:37 2015 No.6272593

>>6267674

Ohhh, he's selling an image of himself. The writing is secondary. Suddenly it all makes sense.

Why would someone who writes stories for people need a Twitter presence? Why would he dress like Johnny Depp? Why would he use that outlandish and frankly hideous typewriter? Because he's selling an image. It's attention and validation he craves.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 15 10:04:15 2015 No.6272601 The concept itself is pretty neat but he's a shitty writer not to mention the fact that he's clearly doing it to be quirky and eccentric and not because he actually loves it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 15 11:09:32 2015 No.6272787 >>6267841 >>6267857 Was about to say that this is very similar to BR. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXmqCyKhZtw They even look alike.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 15 11:24:16 2015 No.6272821 >>6267680 The Thames is an allegory for his asshole.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 15 11:27:52 2015 No.6272832 File: 95 KB, 660x694, 1393538147933.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6267761 >in a voice that squeaked like a door

Anonymous Sun Mar 15 11:32:24 2015 No.6272842

>>6272593
>Because he's selling an image. It's attention and validation he craves.

That's overly simplifying. What he's doing - apart from any artistic intent on his side - is that he's creating a "brand" of himself, just like John Green managed to do with his YouTube presence. Using that "brand" he can then support any future publishing endeavors, any novel by him won't be "the new book written by that unknown weirdo on 4chan" but "the new book written by the artistic spirit with the typewrite, a London original!"

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 15 11:35:00 2015 No.6272847 >>6270144 best idea yet

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 15 11:35:55 2015 No.6272851 Nice advertisement

>>	« 零 » !Ry9.FWKNDY Sun Mar 15 11:39:17 2015 No.6272865 File: 86 KB, 600x586, AREIZOO II.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >"It all moved. Nothing was forever." ON THE CONTRARY, ONLY THAT WHICH REMAINS STATIC IS EPHEMERAL; THAT WHICH IS IN CONSTANT MOTION IS VIRTUALLY ENDLESS.

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 15 12:08:50 2015 No.6272975 >>6268252 >>6268065 >>6269530 >>6272569 >>6272593 >judging people based on their appearance huh

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