Are Farmer and RealityChuck of any relation? :dubious:
The solution to this is to learn good grammar, spelling, and usage, and then write the story yourself for 100% of the profit. Good grammar isn’t actually difficult; it’s just a matter of getting into the habit of using it. All the rules that are actually of any importance, you’ve known since before kindergarten. As for the typing, you can either just spend a lot of time on it (perfectly acceptable, and with practice you’ll get faster anyway), or you can spring for dictation software and just speak it into the computer (yes, you’ll have to pay for decent-quality software, but it’d be a heck of a lot cheaper than a human co-author).
Oh, and if you do decide to go it on your own, and try to get your stories published, remember one key fact: The money is supposed to flow to the author. If anyone wants you to pay them to publish anything, they’re ripping you off.
No, Chuck’s sons are named Roast and Wagon.
Very, very cool.
I have an idea for a pill that you just drop into a tank of water and it turns it into gasoline. Anyone want to develop this product, if so, I’ll split the profits 50/50 with you!
I’m certain I’ve seen someone propose that in all seriousness on this board… Does anyone remember the link?
Guys, what we’re going to do here is get a bunch of those newfangled solar cells. You know, the ones they put on the roof to generate electricity. Then we’re gonna hook up all the solar cells to desk lamps.
Now here’s the million-dollar idea: we point the desk lamps at the solar cells!
I’ll be holding a conference call for potential investors. In my time machine.
This thread gave me the idea for a story.
So I’ve got a great title for a film. Pig-men versus Dog-men. Somebody write, produce, direct, and star in this, and I’ll split it 60/40.
I believe Alexandre Dumas did the bulk of the writing, while a collaborator provided the idea/plot.
That idea would make millions! I’ll go partners with you, but I since I’m doing all the hard work and covering the big expenses, you’ll have to put up some good faith money. Not much, a couple of hundred should do. Not that I don’t trust you, but there has to be come consideration to form a valid contract, and the courts don’t buy the old $1 consideration value valid anymore, but $200 would seem credible. Send me a PM and I’ll send you an address to send a certified check or money order to.
PM sent!
hahaaaa. To all the rest of you - I’m outta here loosers. Tripo 'n me gonna be rich, bitches! When I come back I’m gonna by this place.
OMG!!! That idea will make zillions of dollars! We’ll take the money and hire 500 hundred authors to write FarmerChuck’s book. FarmerChuck will explain his idea to the authors and we’ll assign one page to each author. Then we’ll collect the pages from the authors, put them in a big pile, and we’ll have an instant literary masterpiece!
Well, I finally know what hte Steorn Orbo secret was, I suppose…
Alexander Dumas already wrote Pig-men versus Dog-men? That was quick.
He did the 18th Century version with the musketeer swordfights. My version has aliens.
You could have done that with the $200.
Happens all the time with formula fiction.
The Stratemeyer Syndicate is probably the most famous and longest lasting. There are variations on it today, in which packagers dream up ideas for series, create the “bible” of characters and stories, and farm them out to writers.
The James Patterson Fiction Factory (my name) works the same way. He comes up with a basic plot, or outline, or idea, and hires someone to write it and adds his name. That’s how he had seven #1 bestsellers last year. Other authors, like Tom Clancy, have done similar “collaborations”. There are zillions of examples in genre fiction. In some cases the name author does nothing at all, though. The name for it in the field is “sharecropping”. (You do all the hard work, get a pittance, and the name author reaps the bulk of the benefits.) You’ll never know who does what unless you can get behind the scenes.
Joe