Just odds and ends, plus a fish from Austin’s Town Lake. Urban fishing, that’s me.
More Google pictures:
The London office?
Novel writing month:
I like this commentary, I picked up from TFG, about novel-length manuscript writing. For more than a decade now, I’ve been turning out a “novel-length-manuscript” at the pace of one 100,000 (plus) collection of words per year, and in the last half of that, I’ve nearly doubled it to 120,000 (plus) words and another 50K words in the web journal.
Mars & mercury (the planets):
Not really astrology news, but along the lines of what the planets are doing.
Coolest adverts yet:
Cherchez le poisson:
Just a morning fish, from Austin’s lake, little black bass. Just a monring diversion. The bigger fellers didn’t want to play.
Bait and bandwidth, script, take five:
(I really ought to put in some different music, but at the time I was messing with it, that tune appealed the most.)
(titles + music, fade in)
“Hi, my name is Kramer Wetzel, I’m the guy who writes the horoscopes called Fishing Guide to the Stars. Look: on the lake of life? We can all use a little guidance, and that’s what this is all about. The title started as a joke, if you have to know the truth, but it’s spun off into its own entity. Besides, in this line of work? Seems to be a lot of folks take themselves a little too serious. While I’m serious about the astrology part, the rest of it? I try to have a bit of fun.
“I started writing the scopes because no one was doing something with this genre that entertained me. It was all either too high-brow and esoteric, or the material was just canned, recycled every other week, same old cliches about ‘travel, relatives and money.’ Or traveling relatives with money.
“Yeah, you’ve read it all before.
“Click around on the website, you’ll find more than a decade’s worth of material, the text for a couple of books, and enough organic bovine by-product to fill a tractor-trailer. Easily.
“Why subscribe? First off, it’s cheap. less than ten cents per day. Plus there are a few extra bonuses in the subscription section, like the weekly audio-visual message, I try and update every Monday. Then there’s the updated scopes themselves, in their raw form, and best of all? Less than 2% advertising.
“I tend to respond to regular subscribers in more timely fashion, too, with a real answer instead of some flip remark.
“Think about it. Compare the prices. $6 a week? $29.95 a quarter? I’m a lot cheaper. but someone has to pay for the bait and bandwidth around here. The cat’s certainly not pulling her weight these days.
“Thank you for your support.”
(fade out)
Musical question:
Is it better to burn out or just fade away?
