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Reply Subj: Re: A Novel Problem Posted: Mon May 09, 2011 at 09:50:20 am EDT (Viewed 655 times) | |||||||
Quote: Quote: "Mac" is a nickname given because of the band. Quote: Even if that's true, the RIAA may not be so understanding.They can go argue it out with my old schoolfriend and tell him his name's trademarked then. Quote: Quote: Quote: Also isn't the Chain Knight too closely related to the Hellraiser franchise?Quote: Quote: I've never seen the Hellraiser movies so I wouldn't know.Quote: You should really watch the first Hellraisers movie before using any reference to them. Like Nightmare on Elm Street, the production company is very protective of the still-lucrrative franchise.I don't think I'd use the term "Hellraisers" for that reason. I haven't even decided yet whether the team members other than the Chain Knight will be in this volume. Quote: I do remember one of the Hellraisers characters used chains with meathooks on them. No armor though.I think there's a reasonable conceptual space between what I do with Lucian and anything others might portray; but I'll check into this. Quote: I admit as late at night as I posted that reply, I assumed since you were publicly posting your notice, you were warning us all to stop using Vinnie for now.  That wouldn't be fair. Quote: That last part was direct from me more than a generality. I guess I'm discovering that I like writing, but the *quality* of it seems to be audience-driven. The better the response, the more I'm motivated to include more detail. If I'm just posting to try to keep the PVB alive, I tend to keep the stories shorter and quicker moving.Sorry to bring up the issue of format again, but I've just had four months of my publisher talking about e-books to me. With the vast surge in Kindle sales and the like, the e-book market has suddenly become a more significant contributor to a literary work's income stream. I was a bit daunted when I found that my first book was on sale electronically for $3 or whatever it is but I have to admit it does somehow seem to have stimulated paper sales again too. Voodoo. Anyhow, I wonder if this isn't the time for you to start writing or rewriting some of your First Class stuff with a view to e-publication once more. I think there's a dual market, with the episodic PVB chapters being like the monthly comics stand flimsies and an e-reader package being the TPB. The latter probably has added content and is a more edited and paced version, perhaps adjusted by episodic reader feedback. And all of that in turn might inspire you to up your game. Quote: I agree that it's organic, what I meant is because we're losing people *now*, perhaps the process needs to be accelerated a bit. Right now we're stuck in an awful cycle where as the poster-characters are forcibly retired, and no new ones are added, the cast is shrinking. As the cast shrinks, we lose more poster-characters. See where this is headed?I encourage everybody to add their own personal casts. I find having characters I can use, abuse, change and kill off without qualm very useful, and I think others would too. Quote: Then again, maybe I'm wrong, but that's what I think.I'm amazed the board has lasted this long. Most of these kinds of online associations have a finite lifespan. I thought we'd do well to make 5 years! Quote: What I see in common among people who left seems to be (at least what I've seen) that this is a childlike place to be outgrown and left behind when it's time to "grow up" - i.e. get married, raise a family, get a real job, etc. Then again, there are some of us who refuse to grow up. Many of the longer-term posters are those who came to the board in their "already settled" years and didn't have the disruption of discovering sex/college/first job/marriage/kids etc. Quote: Then again, maybe people feel the need to "outgrow" the PV because it doesn't grow with them. A lot of the stories seem to be related to Marvel crossovers or Avengers. At the same time, when a lot of people reach a certain stage in life, they start to feel like reading Marvel comics isn't appropriate anymore - and consequently, the PV is the baby thrown out with the bathwater. It's true that a whole lot of people who I first knew because they read the same comics I did have now turned their back on the hobby. Some of that is about changing life tastes; some I attribute to horrible comic company decisions and marketing. | |||||||
