He'd at least be in good company. Heinlein took up writing to pay off debts incurred after a failed run for office, and Clive Cussler pretty much spent the rest of his life cranking out potboilers after a lawsuit over the film adaptation of Sahara where he got countersued and socked with ALL the costs.
The worst part of reading The Ark summary for me is the realization that this actually had the grain of a decent idea if it was in the hands of a competent writer.
There's people right now in every industry you can think of making a living of just leaning on the tropes, doing the base line, and just showing up. Rick doesn't even show up. He thinks he's too good for a decent work ethic. There's this interview I read ages back about Rob Liefeld in the comic book industry. He's not a great artist and pretty much has one speed with his output but he keeps getting work because of his work ethic. He just gets shit done on time and puts it out, publishers loved him for that.
The easy answer is he's lying. Though to be honest I'd love to see whether or not he ever actually earned out on his advances from Tor, if I'm not mistaken they signed him for a three book contract but cut him after 2 so Im guessing no?
No, child, fat only drinks out of plastic bottles. Wait for the hangover.
responding to every text message and ensuring maximal prison enjoyment is a work ethic in and of itself, stalker. i have instructed you many thousands of times.
Gate Crashers, Starship Repo, and In the Black are all published by Tor, so unless there's some contractual fuckery in the background it looks to me like they got their three crappy (and deviant) books from him. whatever they paid him went to the samsung flip-phone and many vacations, child. you know nothing at all as usual, but know this: your life is already over.
Well if you put it like that you're not wrong it's just most people apply that to things that make money, not things that make you look like a fat moron who is fat.
I seem to recall that his three book deal they got two books into the trilogy and they saw that shit wasn't selling so they told him to just try anything else so the trilogy is incomplete.
huh. I could have sworn that he had one series that had been announced as a trilogy but only two books were actually ever published, but its not like I can be arsed to actually look into it.
i did a search on a few apparent keywords in those three books and that seems to be correct. In the Black is the odd duck out from a very limited glance.
"Annihilation fuel...reactant mass...BREACH..."
Yup. You'd be amazed how far showing up on time and putting in the work -- even if you half ass it sometimes -- will carry you.
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Cussler wrote good airplane/beach adventure novels. Nothing fancy or innovative, but fun reads. From the little I've seen Pat wpuld have to double his IQ to do half as well.
Wrong again, child. Fatrick has no discernible neck or normally proportioned chin. You've been instructed many thousands of times to cease your felony anatomy misidentifying. Enjoy prison.
I don't even try. Patrick is free to think whatever he wants to think, so long as it results in him mouthing off to the judge on camera for my amusement.
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