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That's my plan for at least the morning. Got off to a decent start. However, if I don't get up off my dear little tochas and change out my summer clothing for cold weather clothing, that same dear little tochas is liable to get frozen off at some point. That chore will require repeatedly running up and down three sets of stairs, so I should get in a bit of exercise for the day, too.
 
I gotta take some inspiration from you two and get off my proverbial lazy ass. The extent of new writing for me over the past two months has been a single flash piece. I've got a few extended weekends coming up in November and December where I shall seek to write my face off.

But the question is...try to start a Sex Robot sequel (which would naturally be a satire of the far right), OR - continue working on a hard sci-fi story where I already have a clear vision of where I want to go with it? I've got about 10 days to decide.
 
The winter clothes are still in storage, but I did get all the garden tools and doodads put away. Had two separate writing sessions today and discovered some interesting things are going to happen in this book. I've already indulged myself by writing about rattlesnakes in one book and horses in another. My next indulgence involves natural disasters.
 
Set2Stun said:
But the question is...try to start a Sex Robot sequel (which would naturally be a satire of the far right), OR - continue working on a hard sci-fi story where I already have a clear vision of where I want to go with it? I've got about 10 days to decide.
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I'd say the answer is pretty easy on this one. Don't write the sequel unless the prequel sells really well. You should write the hard Sci-Fi and try to sell that afterwards. In the meantime, continue marketing your current book to gather yourself more readers and thus more evidence for the demand of a sequel, which you can write at another point.

It makes sense in my head anyway...
 
Had to break it to my wife this morning that, once again, I finished out of the running in the "Sexiest Man Alive" contest, which apparently went to one Jonathan Bailey. My wife's response, glancing up from her coffee, "Couldn't be more unsurprised."
 
I heard that today, too, but I have no idea who Jonathan Bailey is. But here he is (he looks like a Shakespearean actor to me):

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GrahamLewis said:
Had to break it to my wife this morning that, once again, I finished out of the running in the "Sexiest Man Alive" contest, which apparently went to one Jonathan Bailey. My wife's response, glancing up from her coffee, "Couldn't be more unsurprised."
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I just checked. I'm not on it either.
 
It's typically who you'd expect, like George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp, Richard Gere, Idris Elba.

I looked up the list to check the outliers. There's only a few, notably Blake Shelton, and freakin' Nick Nolte? What?
 
ps102 said:
I'd say the answer is pretty easy on this one. Don't write the sequel unless the prequel sells really well. You should write the hard Sci-Fi and try to sell that afterwards. In the meantime, continue marketing your current book to gather yourself more readers and thus more evidence for the demand of a sequel, which you can write at another point.

It makes sense in my head anyway...
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I've thought the same, though there is another angle to look at this from. It's not uncommon for people to read a standalone book, and after finishing it and enjoying it, looking up the author - and realizing that it's a part of a series and there are other books to check out. Having a second book in a series can really boost the sales of the first.

And so, I'm still not sure. I do want to get both projects done, so I guess what's important is that I'm working on one of them instead of doing nothing !
 
For what it is worth: the publisher's publicity person told me that it was usual for a second book to come out and result in an uptick of sales for the first book. She also warned against mentioning the word "series" when publicizing a book. Don't know if this is more true for literary novels than other genres.

In your position, I'd write the story that promises to entertain me the most.
 
GrahamLewis said:
Had to break it to my wife this morning that, once again, I finished out of the running in the "Sexiest Man Alive" contest, which apparently went to one Jonathan Bailey. My wife's response, glancing up from her coffee, "Couldn't be more unsurprised."
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Where's Sean Connery on that frickin' list? *checks* Oh, wait. Well, he was pretty handsome when he was alive. ;-P

On the other hand, Arnold (there's only one Arnold) is 78 and still looks good.

Christopher Lee was also very handsome, in his day. Check him out:

 
I'm lucky I google names I want to give to things in my universe sometimes. I was going to name something a name that already exists in The Eggheads. Wouldn't have been a proper association for my more serious tone.
 
Rath Darkblade said:
Where's Sean Connery on that frickin' list? *checks* Oh, wait. Well, he was pretty handsome when he was alive. ;-P
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He and Daniel Craig were the two best Bonds, because underneath that surface charm, they had a sort of intrinsic thugginess. For all their suavity, they gave me the impression that they would cheerfully beat the stuffing out of you if anybody asked them to.
 
Intrinsic thugginess.

Thank you for that phrase. It cheered me up and I didn't even know I needed cheering.
 
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