A person in a medieval costume stands confidently on a green screen set, holding a dagger with one foot on a bundle of clothes, evoking a dramatic and intense mood.
Pic of the Day: James Marsters showing off the duds behind the scenes of Dragon Warriors 2013
#JamesMarsters #DragonWarriors #DudesAndDragons #IFeelLikeDudsMayBeAnAussieThing #So #Duds #InThisContext #MeansClothing #FYI
If your dud novel is a few years old and you continued to write after it published, it likely means your current writing capability is superior to what you wrote then. This is the natural result of continuing practice.
Editing an old novel is instructive.
#writingcommunity #booksky #duds
No credible publisher would purchase a novel and have a zero marketing plan for that novel.
If you are self publishing YOU are the PUBLISHER. It becomes your JOB to create a viable marketing plan BEFORE you (purchase) novel rights and engage in the process.
#writingcommunity #booksky #duds
You will also need to determine if your cover/title are poor.
Novel is crap.
Title is crap.
Cover is crap.
Writing is crap.
These are all potentially the problem and sometimes all of these are the problem together. You need to find out which of these are true.
#writingcommunity #booksky #duds
Pay your English teacher reader to isolate 10 random consecutive pages and mark up visible typo/grammar errors so you can calculate % of simple writing errors for the manuscript. Pay them for a 2-3 page opinion review of the story itself.
#writingcommunity #booksky #duds #findingproblems
Pull the title out of print.
Go back to your finished manuscript file and print out a copy using (Shunn manuscript format). Make sure the pages are numbered.
Locate a local retired English teacher in your town who likes to read your genre.
Pay them to read it.
#writingcommunity #booksky #duds
If you decide you have nothing to lose by trying to rescue your dud book, then your first order of business is to remove the title from publishing. Shut it down.
Now you have to analyze what its problem really is with unvarnished truth. This will be hard.
#writingcommunity #booksky #duds
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04....
#Duds rascist background shows thru as #Coalition place Pauline Hanson's #OneNation candidates at number two in the vast majority of lower house seats. #auspol #ausvotes #auspol2025 #LNP move to extreme right. whiffs of #fascism in the wind
#Duds just doesn’t want to lashed by Gina’s tongue.
The @liberalaus.bsky.social gave up when they elected #Duds as leader. Even they know he’s unelectable #auspol
I have canceled all 3. #duds No Fuckbook, No Am_bozo_zon, Never touched the other fucktard, and his soon to be X companies.
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
DUDS:
🎵 Irregular Patterns (6 Music Session, 25 Oct 2016)
#6music #DUDS
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
▶️ Song on #Bandcamp:
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
DUDS:
🎵 Assembly Line (6 Music Session 25 Oct 2016)
#6music #DUDS
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
DUDS:
🎵 No Remark (6 Music Session, 25 Oct 2016)
#6music #DUDS
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
▶️ Song on #Bandcamp:
#VSS365
WHAT IF we think of both human and alien personas/external appearances as something akin to them wearing #duds they can shed easily or wear with pride and honor, depending on their need.
Read my free 2010 story that deals tentacles-on with this SF reality.
r-spec.org/2034-writing...
Now it's hard to tell
all the bombshells from the #duds
until they blow up.
#vss365 #haiku #poetry #writing #WritingCommunity
Linnea listened to the library, and Lucas felt annoyed by her muttering. “Could you just spell it out? What ever bothers you?” “These new files, they are just #duds, empty noise. They do not contain but a short bit of background noise and then nothing.” #Vss365
“That is insane.” Hye Bak lifted his finger and Do Jii stopped. “He is a lord. You are a peasant. How do you think you could understand him and his reasons?” Hye Bak hoped Do Jii would do nothing that would shorten his life. “As warriors, we are #duds and he is a master.” #vss365
“It came to me after that Kung Pao attacked us that all these wandering around are #duds, failed Bulgae.” Hye Bak nodded, “Yes, they carry to disease but are too weak to carry the blessing.” “Kung Liao, not chicken dinner.” Do Jii interrupted. #vss365
yep, yer time suspension's shot. *spits* yer present's runnin' rough 'causa yer past. trainwreck? *nods* them fancy #duds an' that slick 'do ain' gone help ya wi'that... best git'er fixed 'for headin' inna yer future if ya wanna git there in one piece...
~life mechanic, middle of nowhere
#vss365
Eventually,
even the bots
got bored
long ignored
by users
fled abroad
fake news
failing to abuse
or amuse
#duds fired
into space
an empty place
where their lies
now lie unheard
echoes in the chamber
of the absurd
a new blue moon
rises
none too soon
free from
the goon
we won't consume
#vss365
