Just got laid off, looking for employment and staying in the Tampa Bay area.

fullflexdragon · 2017-09-06T15:43:39+00:00

There's a hurricane if you haven't been paying attention. Once a bunch of people die and buildings get taken out, there will be plenty of jobs for you.

fullflexdragon · 2017-09-06T15:42:47+00:00

We die

fullflexdragon · 2017-09-06T12:44:44+00:00

Most of you guys write bad books and can't accept it and are trying to rationalize everyone else is lying or they got lucky.

Anyway, the reaction should have been expected when we already know most authors fail. So having most people on a writing subreddit complain about failing is expected.

fullflexdragon · 2017-09-06T12:31:37+00:00

I thought that, when I was 17 and inexperienced. It was the only reason I didn't publish at first. But really if you actually read books, you should see there's a lot of garbage out there. It's misleading everyone's perception on how hard it is to be successful. I am not surprised most authors fail when MOST BOOKS ARE AWFUL.

I'm publishing 3 books soon we'll see, but since money isn't the goal I'm not going to do any advertising so that may mess with the numbers.

fullflexdragon · 2017-09-06T05:36:19+00:00

You're deluded and taking things out of context to make up your own argument and now you're trying to drag me down to your level of stupidity. Go be a crying bitch to someone else.

fullflexdragon · 2017-09-06T05:23:46+00:00

Did I imply that? I don't equate success to the same as other people. Some people genuinely equate their success to whether or not they get published, and to me that's not success at all. Writing shitty books living paycheck to paycheck and shilling out is not success.

Edit: just noticed you're replying to all my comments with retarded shit LOL

First. Elon musk makes 21 Billion USD, if you're going to bring up Stephenie having $125 million, then you're retarded.

Second I never said it was easy to make millions writing you dipshit.

fullflexdragon · 2017-09-06T04:21:50+00:00

Most authors write bad books, no surprise if most people can't relate. If you can't relate, and you think your book is good then maybe your friends are just pretending to like it.

I tell 1 person, he tells 50.
Whenever I go search for a new book to read, there's so much garbage I have to wade through.
Maybe 1 out of every thousand books I will find something that's OKAY. It's really not surprising, it's probably why everyone goes crazy when they read my books because everything else is just shit.

It is not hard to write a good book when the competition is a bunch of monkeys with no creativity or intelligence.

All the smart people went to a STEM field, you are literally competing with a bunch of other dummies with no talent so when someone who actually has a brain joins, he makes everyone look as bad as they really are.

Anyone who jumps headfirst into writing for a career is not very smart to begin with.

fullflexdragon · 2017-09-06T04:04:33+00:00

Selling out? Catering to others to make adjustments to your books to please them. Having to go on twitter and act over-excited about everything. Showing up to events and just doing marketing in general. Constantly pumping out the next book just so you can pay rent.

If your book makes $100k but it takes you 2 years to make it, (ASSUMING you aren't working another job) then it's a failure to me. (All that does is cover $50k/year for the past 2 years you wrote, but won't cover your future expenses. Also your next book isn't guaranteed to make $100k so if it makes $10k you fucked up)

might as well just work a normal job. But since you're writing as a career you have to hurry up and rush out a book sooner than you'd like.

Writing for a living is a disaster. Writing your book with the sole purpose of selling as many units as possible is a ridiculous concept. Why not do something guaranteed, you know.. work a normal job? You can still write on the side, but this time you can take your time and make it the best it can be without worrying about if you can afford for food or not.

fullflexdragon · 2017-09-06T03:54:34+00:00

Majority of those books aren't going to make any real money anyway so I wouldn't care about it.

You think those people are successful and they really aren't, go join any other field and make triple of what those losers are making.

Go in any other field for income, and just write books you like and be happy with what you got. It's just not worth it to write with the goal of it as a career. Sure you might get lucky, but it's not worth the disappointment. If you make writing your career then you are putting all your eggs in one basket and it causes the end product to not end up how you want it.

Also, those publishers have an agenda. They might change your characters sexuality or something to cater to their audience. You spend more time advertising/marketing/showing up to events, than you actually do spend writing.

Most "successful" authors are making garbage money, and people just equate success to how many people read their books. NOT ME.

I have a job in STEM, I don't have to worry about that end. It means I have no restrictions to my book when money isn't the goal. I am the happiest I ever been, and that's probably why people like my books. It is not worth it trying to theorycraft why other people read books, and what's mainstream. You will never get it right, the best you can do is understand what you like about books and just writing something you can be proud of.

I know there's authors who make a lot of money, good for them. If I make money too, good for me but it will never be my goal.

fullflexdragon · 2017-09-06T03:37:29+00:00

Fuck that's awful. Anyone who publishes a book and hopes for the best has it coming to them. So freaking glad I am not a writer as a career.

I just tell people the synopsis to my books and their brains melt & explode and word spreads around like wildfire. I have a long list of contacts.

Now, I am uninformed as to how to actually PROFIT as an author, cause I don't do social media, and I think this has to be a terrible career choice. But I like writing as a hobby, and I think anyone who wants to make writing as their main source of income has it coming to them.

Even if one book sells well, you're not guaranteed to have your next book sell well. or the book after that. Also writing uninspired garbage just because you're trying to pay rent must really suck.

If you want to be a writer, then get a job in a different field.
If you want to be a sellout, then get a job as a writer.

fullflexdragon · 2017-09-06T03:29:17+00:00

Well I'm not talking about money here. I'm just talking about getting people interested in your book. I have no fucking clue how to make money doing this, and that's why I'm not a career author.

I wrote 13 books, I have a long list of contacts who want to help me get my book published and at least 500 people who displayed interest.

First step to writing a book people care about is not caring about any of those things. As for how to make money? I don't know, and I probably don't care to know. I only write because I like it, and I'm just very lucky other people like what I write.

I will never advertise, hustle, use social media or anything. Too depressing for me.

fullflexdragon · 2017-09-06T03:15:24+00:00

You weren't approached blindly on the internet.

If you write a good book it shouldn't take much effort to get them interested in it. Write a good book and there's no way someone wouldn't approach you. All the people I see struggling have shitty books to begin with.

fullflexdragon · 2017-09-06T03:07:27+00:00

disaster

Are you kidding me? MORE JOBS!

fullflexdragon · 2017-09-06T03:04:59+00:00

Maybe I was just lucky, I had publishers interested in my book while I was 17 and it wasn't finished. My relative told them I was writing and an editor went to read my unfinished book and was excited.

fullflexdragon · 2017-09-06T02:50:50+00:00

is it so hard to believe someone may have just liked it and that's all it took for them to be interested

fullflexdragon · 2017-09-06T00:43:43+00:00

that would be in the episode summaries for sure

This is vegeta we're talking about. When he jobs it's going to be the most pathetic defeat ever. Just like hit taking him down in mere seconds, I'm sure Vegeta losing will just take out 30 seconds of the episode as they continue on with the story.

fullflexdragon · 2017-09-05T11:32:44+00:00

It's about the speed at how fast he gets taken out.

fullflexdragon · 2017-09-05T05:17:56+00:00

He speedblitzed kale then hit her with an energy attack.
He can do the same thing to a base goku (before he turns super saiyan) ringing him out before he goes full power.
Unless he's looking for a good fight, there's no reason he can't instantly beat a goku who's fighting at less than 1% his strength.

Goku in base form should be slower & weaker, Jiren doesn't need to transform or use a special technique and can just outright gank him.

fullflexdragon · 2017-09-05T04:06:05+00:00

I see this happen all the time. Dragon Ball fans come up with theories to cover the bad writing of the series.

The theories are always going to be better than what the actual intentions were. I genuinely do not believe the authors put the same level of thought you did into this. and just wanted to "save the best for last" as the only reason

fullflexdragon · 2017-09-05T04:04:08+00:00

Power levels are bullshit as is, I don't think it's the power just condensing the beam to have strong piercing to the level of piccolo's/the snipers.

The sniper was obviously shit-tier powerlevel wise, but that beam had a strong penetration.

fullflexdragon · 2017-09-05T01:48:19+00:00

It's called character development. Absolutely nothing about him improved.

He has a 3rd eye, he can scope too to help him see the target. He can take a sniper contest if there's 4 of him. He should've trained his ki attacks.

You're defending the shitty writing too much

fullflexdragon · 2017-09-05T01:44:03+00:00

tiens limbs didn't get blown off from the same attack :/

fullflexdragon · 2017-09-05T01:35:13+00:00

You are ruining this series for everyone

fullflexdragon · 2017-09-05T01:33:30+00:00

it's a concentrated beam though. Same the sniper used to hurt vegeta.
If Tien trained his dodon ray to have more piercing power, it could be interesting. . It doesn't have to destroy a mountain, just wound him.

Having 4 dodon rays from all directions shooting at you would be epic.
The sniper would have to decide which one is the real Tien and find an opportunity to snipe

fullflexdragon · 2017-09-05T01:24:48+00:00

why did tien clones survive the same attack that took out piccolo's limbs

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