Tuesday, May 30, 2006

What's the book about?

Yet another anonymous comment posted on the WS site has put forward a suggestion for the forthcoming epic. "Rosemary" writes; Hey WS, Just a thought but couldn't your book be a whole bunch of blogger entries? Just like you've written here but started long before you actually wrote them down on blogger? XOXO Rosemary What did she think it was going to be about?????? Needlepoint in the 18th Century? Surely the book wouldn't be about her experiences in trying to get a book deal, errrrr... I mean living rough in a car, would it? After all, the blog was written purely for personal reasons. Which is why she advertised it on writers forums. And the BBC. And the New York Times. And got one of her cronies to nominate her blog for a publishing award. Yup, deep personal reasons .......... Should this future classic ever reach the stage of being printed then some advice from one of her fans who is already a published author paints a realistic picture of events to come. Debi Alpers website details the likely timeline for aspiring authors and states that it would probably take 3 or 4 books before an author starts to become recognised (I mean by the literary world, not down the local launderette). I can see this being a dilemna for WS. Let's imagine that book 1 is indeed about her experiences so fancifully described on her blog. What would book 2 be about then? Surely she can't become homeless again? Perhaps she'll follow book 1 up with a volume detailing all the nice letters of praise she gets for publishing her book (because as we know, nobody ever ever writes anything nasty on her comments section). So then we'd come to book 3. Hmmmm... Gonna struggle with this one. Howsabout a blog inspired book about her struggle to be recognised as a serious writer who pulled herself up from the gutter of the laneways of England despite terrific odds and numerous nay sayers? Whoops. Can't do that one cus it will be acknowledging that there were some who had doubts etc. Blimey, this book writing malarkey may prove trickier than she first thought. I wonder if Debi Alper would advise spending the advance fee for her book deal on a camper van. Just in case ............

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

what's so anonymous about Rosemary?

wanderingScribe said...

** sigh **

It's anonymous because she didn't put a blogger name in.
Anyone can post as any name, the signature on the bottom of the post is meaningless.
I merely included the typed name of Rosemary for clarity.

Tomorrow I'll explain how to tie shoelaces.
Do tune in cus it sounds as though you'll find it informative as well as entertaining.
Regards,
The King of Legoland
(Not really)

Anonymous said...

... oh **sigh** silly me
tut!
Don't be so fucking perverse - you don't need a blog name to be identified - if anything a blog name gives more anonymity as you fucking well know.

Anonymous said...

is that enough expletives or shall I throw in a few more you fucking stupid cunt. Now does that guarantee my comments remaining?

Wobblingscruffbag said...

Now you're just repeating youself, you stupid cunt.