"Gaming is Stupid, Canada is a Myth"
"yeah.....so my boyfriend really wants this one game"
"Gaming is Stupid, Canada is a Myth"
Time for a change
Actually, I should add to this response. When I first had the idea to write a story about retail, I very much copied ideas from Clerks without ever seeing the movie (or even knowing it existed).
After reevaluating the stor(ies) I wanted to tell, I came up with something more in the vein of Douglas Coupland's Microserfs and Neil Straus's The Game.
On an unrelated note: I believe The Game is a must read for Buttcheeks/Ironplant. I always forget to tell him though.
Meh. It was more about Hugo Ellis (you're hugo ellis I presume?) than video game retail, but I guess that's the interesting part (as mentioned with people wanting to know more about his drunken room mate stealing bar stools). I don't like the blog format either, it seems like a kind of lazy way to do things instead of reformatting things to flow nicely. Maybe that was your goal. I'm no literary master myself but that's how I felt when I read it.
hugoellis.com doesn't work anymore.
Last edited by Drewbacca; 30 Sep 2006 at 01:20 PM.
Originally Posted by rezo
I appreciate your feedback, but there are things about your critique that puzzle me:
Originally Posted by MeOriginally Posted by Hugo, on page four and fiveIt is about gaming retail, and it's about Hugo's life. But a lot of what makes up working in a shitty job is how lower management (Hugo) can -- idiotically -- allow their relatively unimportant occupation to consume every facet of their life. I've seen this happen to countless employees. The way it plays out, I find, is fascinating.Originally Posted by Me, one post up
The blog idea came to me because... well, everyone has a blog nowadays, and I figured it'd be an interesting vehicle for the story. Tucker Max and Maddox are signing book deals. Just recently, Max actually signed a deal with a Simon and Schuester for his next book. (Random comment: I heard somewhere that bloggers are really just failed reporters.)
I always considered ditching the format in the event that everyone who read the story happened to dispise the way it was written. In fact, as it stands now, if you got rid of the format, the story would sound exactly the same.
I do plan to make the format more instrumental to the narrative. But this will obviously come later.
I'm no literary master either (obviously!). But I don't think the blog format ruins the narrative's flow one way or the either. Right now, the comments section plays a wholly minor role in the story, and this only occurs three times:
1) To make fun of the author for something he does;
2) To question the author about a questionable rant he makes about the video game industry, and;
3) To ask him an entirely unrelated question about the store at which he was previously employed.
As I said earlier: if you ignored the blog aspects, it would read like a typical (albeit amateur) story.
But, really, what the hell do I know? I may have completely missed your point entirely. I could also be presiding over the world's worst piece of fiction here.
Last edited by Brisco Bold; 30 Sep 2006 at 07:51 PM.
I guess I was half expecting a kind of Clerks thing about the job itself more than the person being consumed by some miniscule event in his life (or what should be -- a bad retail job). I guess in that light it is exactly what you wanted it to be.
Originally Posted by rezo
Okay, so I can't edit the thread title anymore, or delete it. *mod: could I?*
Anyway, that book I was talking about? I finished it. Again, I want to know why you hate it.
Btw., Andrew: It is no longer a blog.
Last edited by Brisco Bold; 25 Dec 2009 at 12:52 PM.
Dude you wrote a 325 page book! Very cool.
Will read and report back.
Whatever happened to all those people writing a book in a month?
I won't promise to make it to the finish line, but I'm going to fire her up and see how it goes.
Good job following through and getting something completed. Writing a book has been a goal of mine... getting around to it and actually digging in is way easier said than done.
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