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I'd like to think that I already am one of those, but I wouldn't mind switching.
The second one, every time.Obviously the dosh is nice but it's not just that. Having lots of people enjoying your work is better than having hardly anyone enjoying your work.
I'm with MichaelI don't think the first really exists as an objective, it's just someone who wanted to be the second but never took off.
Dunno about decades, I'd say it was closer to days, maybe weeks at a push. But I'd like to switch to number 2 now please.
There are probably hundreds of graveyards containing 'Some mute inglorious Milton', but these days I keep remembering a picture of Harold Robbins at the height of his fame on board a yacht in the Mediterranean with a bevy of under-dressed ladies.It's one of those questions that answers itself, really.
I'm for the first which could lead to the 2nd. My stories are unique so I want them to first be appreciated by those who want to read them. As for the 2nd, sometimes being popular means readers buy your book because of that and then decide they don't like your style.
I'd go for obscure novelist - I'm actually not one that seeks fame TBH :)
There is an implied sniffiness to the question, I think, as if there is something wrong with appealing to a mass market instead of writing literary masterpieces that only appeal to a few people.Do you want to be James Joyce writing the brilliant (but bloody hard to read) Ulysses or Finnegans Wake?
Or do you want to be Clive Cussler or EL James? Writing books that sell by the bucketload but are hardly likely about to be regarded as classics?
The world needs both. And I am perfectly happy to slot in somewhere in between.
This is today's question... I must say that actually, if you don't know what to write about, they come up with some interesting questions which can help readers know more about you without you having to give them a full autobiography :) When was the last time a movie, a book, or a television show left you cold despite all your friends (and/or all the critics) raving about it? What was it that made you go against the critical consensus?
I failed to come up with anything I could think of. The more people talk about something, the more I shy away from it!
I actually quite enjoyed Pearl Harbour despite everyone else saying it was complete shite.The Great Gatsby book is nothing more than okay.
Napoleon Dynamite was a load of unfunny arse.
Young Frankenstein. I believe I almost cracked my face once. Mel Brooks doesn't agree with me.
I haven't watched Pearl Harbour, no idea what Napoleon Dynamite is, and I studied The Great Gatsby at uni so it kind of spoiled all the positivity it might have created in me ! And I don't think I sat through more than 5 minutes of Young Frankenstein, to the serious disappointment of my partner. Prometheus, maybe? But then I remember hating it and a lot of people around me hated it too. Did people like this one, as a whole?
Actually, Prometheus is a good one - load of arse it was.
Yup, Prometheus left me cold. Loved Alien. Really loved Aliens. But Prometheus just seemed to be Alien lite. The one cal version.Gravity annoyed me for its wonky science, impossible heroics and George clooneying around. Lovely to look at, for all sorts of reasons, but just silly to get the science so wrong.
Books - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo didn't do anything for me.
And I couldn't get past the first couple of paragraphs of Fifty Shades.
Prometheus had some really awesome bits in it, particularly the early scenes with David on his own watching Lawrence of Arabia.Then they landed on the planet and it turned into a pile of "Wha... Are you fricking kidding me...?!"
Idris Elba was good, as was Michael Fassbender. But everyone else, including the normally wonderful Noomi Rapace was left to make the best of a crap script. (badly interfered with by the studio, as I heard it)
And as for Bill & Ben the crap comic relief men... words fail me.
I agree with Michael about the Great Gatsby book, it was ok but not great. I actually preferred the film to the book, which is strange for me as it's usually the other way around. The film of 12 Years a Slave was raved about, and although I did find the story moving, I found the middle part of the film boring and I doubt I'll be watching it again.
I didn't like The Great Gatsby, I found it a bit boring. And The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was terrible, I hated it.
I couldn't even finish the look inside of fifty shades.Made my skin crawl.
Not actually even got to touch a 50-shades book and the only time I looked at it on here or on Amazon (can't remember) was to read a review that others thought were funny.All I remember about Prometheus is how bad the 3D was when you're watching a dark movie. The only scene worth it was the one with Fassbender looking at the star map thing (can't even remember it). The rest was set in the tunnel and all that was in 3D was the piles of skulls and whatever, and because it was so dark it just felt fuzzy and headache-giving.
Actually, a new daily prompt has come up, looks like I was a day behind because of the time difference :) This one sounds fun !
Have you ever named an inanimate object? (Your car? Your laptop? The volleyball that kept you company while you were stranded in the ocean?) Share the story of at least one object with which you’re on a first-name basis.
Go on... you know you want to tell us ;)
Really liked Crime and Punishment, read it two or three times, but The Brothers Karamazov sends me to sleep.
I named all the bugs around our villa in Greece. Does that count?
My Kindle is officially called TouchLily. As in registered under that name!
My family has four VWs between us (everybody works in different places and I live 300 miles away from home!). My Dad has a navy Passat like the one in the Darth Vader advert, so it's called Darth. My Mum has a gorgeous red Beetle called Katy (the number plate starts K8). My sister has a golf called Gloria and I have a Polo called Penny (I get told off if I call her Penelope!) :)
I call everything Steve - that way you don't forget its name.
Patti (baconater) wrote: "I named all the bugs around our villa in Greece. Does that count?"Awww Patti, I do the same. After seeing the same lizard several times in the garden in Italy, I ended up naming him Lizardo :)
Patti (baconater) wrote: "I called them all Squishy."ooooh ! I thought you had a name for every single one of them !
Actually, I've just remembered... I did name my computer mouse "survivor" after it took the umpteenth tumble and still worked. Now, every time it falls, I sing the Destiny's Child song while I pick up its pieces!
Lorraine wrote: "and Sparky was?"A grasshopper, I think? Can't remember. Think I put a pic on Facebook.
You have zillions of pics on Facebook, Patti. Trying to find one of a grasshopper IS like finding a needle in a haystack!
Patti (baconater) wrote: "Lorraine wrote: "and Sparky was?"A grasshopper, I think? Can't remember. Think I put a pic on Facebook."
A boy with a magic piano:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparky%2...
Tsk, the youngsters today...
We call the fat gecko Gordon of course and the other one is Geronimo. We had a VW beetle called Clementine (the colour on the logbook) and daughter's car is Norman Phillips (the dealers name written on the bodywork) funny name for a car Norman!
I have never named an inanimate object. I just don't get it at all. Mind you the cat that lived with me for a year didn't get a name either.
Called an old vauxhall viva Apollo it was yellow
A literary-minded witch gives you a choice: with a flick of the wand, you can become either an obscure novelist whose work will be admired and studied by a select few for decades, or a popular paperback author whose books give pleasure to millions. Which do you choose?