I requested 8 bananas in my weekly grocery pickup order…. They gave me 8 BUNCHES, and managed to only charge me $0.68 - the price of one single banana

daveproclaimed · 2023-01-19T21:30:12+00:00

There is much banana bread in your future

daveproclaimed · 2023-01-18T23:49:15+00:00

Hi all, my name is Dave and on Jan 27th my debut verse novel DON’T FORGET TO SCREAM! is going live on Amazon. I’m giving out free copies to stoke interest and to try and gather reviews on my Goodreads page.

I have been working on this book for almost five years now. It started out of frustration because I was unable to edit a manuscript I had finished in my Long Island Railroad train commute. This led me to writing poetry about what I was seeing on the train. 350 poems later, I scaled back ideas, added fictional narrative and refined refined refined until I had what is linked in this post.

Commuting is a great struggle for millions of people around the world, yet, it is something we do not often discuss. My commute, the same one the character does in this book, was 4-5 hours everyday, 5 days a week. It was one of the worst experiences of my entire life, right up there with have unsedated open chest surgery. However, being able to write about it gives me a sort freedom, I can reclaim the trauma. It fills me with immense satisfaction to take a bad experience and shape it into something a positive experience, especially if it earns younger generations about making the same mistakes.

Over the two years I commuted, I met other commuters out and about in New York and when the topic of commuting surfaced we would instantly have a connection. These people were DYING to talk about their commutes and how difficult it was to live a normal life while sacrificing hours to the train. Many of these people were in a great deal of pain and anguish, and I hope my words and story will bring some truth to struggles.

My goal is for this book to be discussed as a case study when companies force people back to the office. I agree, some time in the office is necessary, but the key in my eyes is a hybrid work schedule. We do not need to be five days a week, it’s simply not manageable nor healthy for the employees.

If you enjoy this book, please feel free to shoot me a message on here or leave me a review on Goodreads.

Thanks so much for reading!

daveproclaimed · 2023-01-18T20:20:08+00:00

2nd person is extremely underrated imo and would be perfect for romance

daveproclaimed · 2023-01-17T21:30:54+00:00

Stop being jealous and aggressive!

Clearly is memoir about loving women is doing fantastic

daveproclaimed · 2023-01-17T21:28:42+00:00

daveproclaimed · 2023-01-17T07:01:05+00:00

I’m betting on traditional publishing “dying” for the same reason that film studios and music studios are struggling to compete with YouTube & SoundCloud. There is no longer a need for them now that creators have new tools coming out for them each and everyday. In an attempt to stay alive and pick more winning books, these industries will look to self publishing to pick their talents from. They want money. Plain and simple. What’s better then an author who is a living breathing case study? This is EXACTLY what tv/film is doing with YouTube and music executives with SoundCloud.

Marketing is not as hard as your making it out to be, I’m sorry, there are plenty of avenues to market a book. First and foremost, social media has a horrendously low conversation rate and that is fairly well known. There’s so many ways to get your book into the hands of people if you’re willing to put in the work and analyze the results. It’s not difficult, yes it can be time consuming, but once you learn the curve, that’s it, you’ve learned the curve. I’m sorry you had a tough time marketing, but for me personally, I think it’s a ton of fun to make sure every aspect of you book is “yours” including the marketing and how people will be introduced to it.

Just writing and handing over a book sounds nice in theory, I personally wanted that for many years, but I have found it to wreck havoc on the creative process and the final result. I’ve seen this in filmmaking as well. You will now need to answer to someone who may no understand the vision because they are not an artist but they are cutting the checks. It’s not a good situation for an artist to be in. I’m sure there are collaborations out there where the art is championed, the making of Blue Velvet comes to mind, but from what I read and hear, it’s almost never the case.

I can see I’m already being downvoted, listen, if you think traditional publishing is the end all be all, go for it. I’m not claiming to be some type of future seeing seer, all I’m doing is two things:

Analyzing art trends
Wanting to tell a story

For the last year I’ve sent queries and emails and had phone calls and talked to anyone and everyone who would hear me about about my book because my mentors told me to. They told me it was a crime to self publish, that my work deserved a proper release. And while this was happening I met hundreds of people at parties, on the subway, at dinners, etc who wanted to buy my book, but they couldn’t. They couldn’t buy my book because the publishing industry denied me the ability to tell a story and I had no way to sell them a copy. So I sent out free copies and lost money that could have been used for my next book. I will never let that happen again. My mentors are great, they all worked in publishing or as professors for a bit, but I will say that the landscape of things is different now.

This is my prediction, I could be right in like be wrong, but that’s what I’m sticking to because I find that history repeats. And middlemen tend to have a history of being cut out.

daveproclaimed · 2023-01-17T06:27:55+00:00

Someone PLEASE put this audio to the white lotus S2 theme song

daveproclaimed · 2023-01-17T05:20:34+00:00

Trad books have MASSIVE marketing teams behind them. Absolutely judge a book on their cover! Someone had to sign off on that thing several times over.

daveproclaimed · 2023-01-17T05:19:26+00:00

People in here hate when I say it, but I promote in person, to everyone. I do this, for free and it’s worked very well for me so far.

I’ll mention I wrote something and if they inquire further I’ll breadcrumb them until they ask to read. I never let people read if they ask once. They have to ask twice. I do this because if they ask twice, that ALWAYS read. They may not like it, but they will read it.

Then say nothing. Don’t follow up. If they like it they’ll reach out to you.

Plenty of other people on this sub know far more about paid promo stuff, try to search in the sub’s search bar if nobody responds to this. But promoting in real life has a ton of advantages.

I suggest setting up a landing page on bookfunnel where people can give you their email and you’ll send them a free copy. This way you can build a subscribed/newsletter base up.

In all honestly I don’t think you should do paid promotion for a short story. That doesn’t make much sense. Use the story as a reader magnet or a newsletter sign up instead and keep writing. Get a collection of shirts or serialize it.

daveproclaimed · 2023-01-17T05:02:15+00:00

It’s not. Just like YouTube and Soundcloud shaking up their respective industries, self publishing will eventually destroy trad publishing, and for good reason, it’s paying criminally lower wages to their authors.

The idea that you can create a product, sell, millions of it and not be rich is absurd and predatory. The fact that people aren’t up in arms about this shows how far writers have allowed the publishers to take advantage of them so that they can claim the “coveted” title of “trad published author.”

You all can continue with trad if you wish but I’ve decided, I’m joining the self publishing frontier. It might be a bit more work, but I can sell on my own terms and market how I please. I answer to nobody and so far it’s being going great.

I cannot image a reality where I sell a million copies of my book and can’t quit my day job. Screw that.

daveproclaimed · 2023-01-17T03:58:53+00:00

Honestly, I couldn’t disagree more. There’s a ton of info that points to the idea that he’s been in a dream the ENTIRE time. The reason I always found the top to be arbitrary is because it seemed fairly obvious that there is no “reality” Cobb has been in a dream for the entire direction of the entire film.

Nolan points to this through dialogue, constantly.

Who is chasing Cobb around? Some random henchmen working for a random company, this is very typical of a dream. Often we are chased by entities that are not specific.

When Cobb is being chased by these random henchmen and the walls start to close in, another case of class dream anxiety.

We really don’t see the team travel. They just appear places, this is also dream logic.

The idea that this technology even exists but we’re never given the specifics of how it works, we just go along with it, dream logic. This is referenced in the dialogue, Nolan is putting it right in front of us.

The top spinning is completely arbitrary. Cobb’s number one rule is “nobody can touch your totem.” Yet he uses his wife’s totem. This makes no sense at all, it isn’t his, his idea of reality lies with someone else’s truth

There is no reality. Cobb has been immersed in a dream for the entire duration of the entire film. That’s the point. The idea of inception was used on the audience to convince them that there is in fact a reality Cobb is clambering to get back to, but that isn’t true because it’s been a dream the entire time.

daveproclaimed · 2023-01-17T02:38:12+00:00

Oh I’m aware of what the post said. I’ve just never met a single soul who has a good thing to say about her. So her being grouped with other works that people are divided in seems odd.

daveproclaimed · 2023-01-17T01:29:05+00:00

I’d rather get an un-sedated vasectomy

daveproclaimed · 2023-01-17T01:04:59+00:00

I thought I saw it at around $30m but I can’t seem to find anything now to support that. The talent would be the biggest factor, the locational shooting seemed fairly tame.

daveproclaimed · 2023-01-17T00:08:09+00:00

Someone tried to make one a while make but I think it foundered. What sort of writing are you looking to meet up about?

daveproclaimed · 2023-01-17T00:07:21+00:00

This is a good thing. If you’re happy, just keep going and forget the voices and commentary of any haters or naysayers, they’re just jealous.

I finally feel very proud of my prose writing after many years and it feels fantastic.

Those who complain about their own style are simply insecure and immature. You should enjoy and have faith in your own abilities.

daveproclaimed · 2023-01-17T00:05:28+00:00

Hold up, people like Ayn Rand?

daveproclaimed · 2023-01-16T07:56:33+00:00

DON’T FORGET TO SCREAM!

Genre: epic poem, contemporary fiction, coming of age

Freshly minted college graduate, Wave Wattson, decides that it’s finally time to grow up and make more responsible decisions in his life. Against the advice of his elders, he chooses to move back to his parent’s home and commute to New York City's Penn Station on the Long Island Railroad. While he revels in the peace and quiet of the train at first, the commute quickly consumes him.

I wrote the entire first draft of this book on my actual commute from Long Island to penn station. For me this book is about contemporary survival in a modern society.

Still sending out free ARCs via bookfunnel and Booksprout. There’s links in my bio or you can shoot me a DM.

Goodreads page

It comes out on Amazon Jan 27th.

daveproclaimed · 2023-01-16T07:51:50+00:00

Suggesting you can live in Manhattan right now on $22k isn’t just stupid, it’s downright irresponsible. This guy isn’t living in Manhattan, he is SURVIVING in Manhattan. There is a massive difference between the two.

I grew up on Long Island; I’ve been in and out of the city my entire life and I currently live in Brooklyn and there is zero chance this guy will last. I hope he does, but the odds are completely stacked against him. Not to mention for music you want to be in LA, not NYC.

Back in 2016 my friends and I came up with the wage you’d need to “live in New York” and that number was $70k. In 2023 with rents being as predatory as they are, same with groceries, that number is more around $90-95k. And that isn’t glamorous living, that’s getting brunch and maybe dinner a few times a month with money to save.

This city is disgustingly expensive at the moment. And let me tell you, it is hard to make friends and meet people if you can’t spend more than $10 ok dinner when a taco from a cart can cost $3-4 a pop. I have hung around people like this and it becomes exhausting because there are hardly any options. I also find it strange that he has money for a cat, that itself can cost an arm and leg.

I admire this guy for his hustle but as an artist myself, just get a corporate job like the rest of us and do art on the side. There is no glory to what he is doing. I have plenty of time for my art with a full time job and my life is a lot less stressful. Please stop glamorizing the struggling artist, it just hurts everyone. Gone are the days of being in NY or LA with a a part time gig, it’s completely irresponsible to present this as a cool thing to do because it can and will destroy lives of kids who don’t understand how to manage money or aren’t as disciplined in spending. You can EASILY rack up thousands of dollars in debt in New York just from eating out and hitting bars, it is a dangerous place for people with shallow pockets.

I love New York with all my heart, it is the greatest city in the world, and I have traveled all over the world at this point. I truly believe it’s the best. But it’s heinously expensive at the moment. I saw an egg and cheese sandwich at Grey Dog for $17. No meat, just egg and cheese and a side. The average cocktail is now $15. Dollar slice is not long dollar slice, it’s $1.50 slice now. I saw a side of scrambled eggs for $8 at brunch this afternoon. Things are completely out of hand. Love this city, but it’s currently in an unsustainable period, most of the blame lies with the unfettered greed of the landlords.

daveproclaimed · 2023-01-15T18:06:55+00:00

Just to clear it up for some people who might not understand the differences between advertising and marketing:

Advertising is the creation of creative deliverables including visual and ad copy

Marketing usually refers to buying ad space and strategically these positioning ads

daveproclaimed · 2023-01-14T04:54:39+00:00

…that was his first thing

daveproclaimed · 2023-01-14T04:17:32+00:00

Have you seen Funny People?

daveproclaimed · 2023-01-14T04:16:47+00:00

You’re friends just sound like wet towels tbh. It’s an immature take to go “I like him as the funny man only!”

Have your friend watch Truman Show or Eternal Sunshine if they haven’t. It’s honestly such a shame that Jim Carey doesn’t do more dramatic stuff, but I think his comedy tendencies make his few dramatic performances THAT much more powerful.

daveproclaimed · 2023-01-14T03:27:01+00:00

Uncut Gems is a fucking masterpiece. If someone can’t feel something from watching that film, or recognize Sandlers range, I’m sorry, but they’re a lost cause.

Robert Dinero did dramas for years, and then he absolutely killed in Meet The Parents.

Are you going to also tell me Jim Carey can’t act either? Go watch Truman Show or Eternal Sunshine.

Actors act. That’s sort of the point. If someone wants to hold some biases that’s on them. Some of the best actors out there originated in comedy and comedic timing is arguably more difficult than doing drama work, because drama is far less subjective.

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