This has got to be more than ten years old, but here it is on Youtube!
Good God, I’m wearing Thessaly’s glasses…
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My desk is full of flowers, not files.
A few years ago, I had the great privilege to work with J Michael Straczynski on a series called The Book of Lost Souls. Issue 3 was a particularly compelling installment.
A young girl, haunted by her dead lover, lives on the street and dreams of a life as an artist. She’s haunted by a voice: a voice Jonathan describes as “The Voice of Reason and Resentment.”
The voice of madness is the voice that says, “Someday people will listen to me.”
It is the voice of madness that says, “I will make little black marks on pieces of paper, and those marks may one day change the world.”
It is the voice of madness that whispers to us in the midnight silence. “I am not what you see. I have dreams, and though I have nothing tonight, tomorrow I will escape this place.”
The voice of madness is the voice that believes, despite all evidence to the contrary, that sustains us when logic demands we surrender to the louder voice – the Voice of Reason and Resentment. And it always comes in the guise of those who love us most, who only want the best for us. And the knives come softly, oh, so softly…”I’m just trying to protect you…”
Listen to your voice of truth. It only sounds mad to people who can’t hear their voice.
Have some more flowers.
From the Press Release:
Doctor’s Hours at 20 Jay Street, Brooklyn
Monday March 28, 6-9pm
Have a new body of work no one has seen? Have a new website? Ready for some feedback on images for an upcoming deadline? Come to NYFA’s Doctor’s Hours for individual, 20-minute one-on-one consultations with local curators, critics and gallerists. Get practical and professional advice in person from one or more arts professionals. Each appointment $25, with a three appointment limit and the opportunity to share your work will be provided.
Consultants: Monday, March 28, 6-9pm
Stephanie Adamowicz, Art Consultant and Writer
George Adams, Gallery Owner, George Adams Gallery
Nathalie Anglès, Founder, Residency Unlimited
Marco Antonini, Curator and Writer
Riva Blumenfeld, Art Advisor and Educator
Erin Donnelly, Arts Manager and Curator
Sarah Greenwalt, Art Advisor
Margaret Mathews-Berenson, Independent Curator and Arts Educator
Kimberly Marrero, Curator and Arts Advisor
Steven Sergiovanni, Director of Mixed Greens
Consultants bios visit our website
These bios provide an opportunity for you to reseach which consultants would be appropriate for the advice and feedback you are seeking.
TO REGISTER: events.nyfa.org
Registration for Doctor’s Hours begins Monday, March 14, 2011.
*please note – this link will not be active prior to Monday, March 14.
WHERE:
New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)
20 Jay Street, Suite 740
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Directions are available on our website
QUESTIONS: Please email Clearning@nyfa.org
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A Story to Topple Star Wars and Harry Potter! Yours for only $3 Million Bucks!
on February 27th, 2011Hey, you can’t make this stuff up. It’s up on ebay, and thanks to Jeremy Avery for the hat tip.
Alas, no bids so far.
I am selling my story that I have been creating for 10+ years. (not constantly writing, but of piecing everything together in a cohesive manner) It can be compared to stories like Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Matrix, Indiana Jones and other titles in those categories. This is a really great story I have. This story needs to be completed by a professional writer or Ghost Writer. I am by no means a writer.
Oh, stop.
OK, maybe it’s mean of me to mockity mock this, because it is clearly off the hook. But once in awhile, a publisher comes forward to ask me why I don’t write a Very Bad Freelancer series to go along with my Very Bad Publisher series. There are scores of deluded, untalented, diva-like goofballs out there making life miserable for perfectly nice publishing companies.
Well, conflict of interest (yeah, that’s it,) ’cause I’d have to squeal on my fellow freelancers (and, perhaps, me,) so no.
But I can point you to this utterly daffy ebay auction with a $3,000,000 starting bid, and a buy it now price of $10,000,000. I took a screen shot in case this thing evaporates tomorrow.
I would rather not sell it at all and just find investors to help hire a celebrity Ghost Writer, which would cost 250,000. The company that hires these writers out, guarantee the book to be a New York best seller. From my understanding, a celebrity ghost writer is someone who has written many books for others that have become “best sellers” and are at a point in their writing career to produce these best sellers often.
If George Lucas offered to sell his idea of Star Wars, would you have bought it?
No.
I will share my story with someone in person only and not over the internet. My story is too valuable to be spread publicly and will give a lot of new ideas for movies and book series that should belong to the buyer.
I bet JK Rowling thinks her story is too valuable to be shared publicly! Clearly, she should never have let that publisher put it into print. Now the cat is out of the bag! I know who killed Dumbledore.
This story will bring in endless fame and money to anyone who takes it. I do not have money to hire a Ghost Writer and I do not want to die with this story untold.
Must…stop…laughing…
And for the people reading this post who think I’m crazy for asking this amount of money for it; this kind of money is a drop in the bucket for large corporations. If it sounds like too much money then you are not the kind of buyer I’m looking for.
Well, OK then.
I know a Hollywood A-list screenwriter or three who doesn’t get that kind of money for a proposal, or even a final screenplay. It’s too bad Spielberg is such a skinflint. Otherwise, he could afford you.
Oh, look, I didn’t notice before. He’s thrown in free shipping.
For a $3,000,000 CD, I sure as hell should hope so.
So you want to be a screenwriter.
So you want to write a novel.
