Mostly race reports / triathlon lifestyle related stuff, mostly on email lists and forums like this one.

I had one article published several years ago, a review of some accounting software for MacAddict magazine.

I'm currently strongly considering taking a shot at writing a sci-fi novel and seeing if I can get it published. It wouldn't be high art, but it sounds like a more fun way to make a living than crunching numbers and punching a clock. If I bomb out, no big deal. Creativity is mostly its own reward anyway.

Short stories. I prefer microfiction as a challenging genre (250 words or less) that is also a lot of fun.

Been writing creatively for about 8 years. Nothing published, but I have also been to shy to ever submit anything for publication.

I could never make a living as a writer. Sometimes it flows, and sometimes it doesn't. I couldn't risk not eating by whether or not my brain wanted to write, and that is assuming people would even want to read it if my brain did opt to produce.

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"Non est ad astra mollis e terris via." - Seneca | rappstar.com | FB - Rappstar Racing | IG - @jordanrapp

I prefer microfiction as a challenging genre (250 words or less)

That's interesting. Would you accept an invitation to post one here?

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"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

I would. It is one of the few stories I have ever considered publishing (or trying). It is about fly fishing. I'll post it when I get home from work.

On a side note, your quote is great. I knew I recognized it, but didn't realize until today it is from "Gattica," an underappreciated movie IMO.

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"Non est ad astra mollis e terris via." - Seneca | rappstar.com | FB - Rappstar Racing | IG - @jordanrapp

I do sports writing for one (hopefully two soon) papers here in Corvallis. The pay isn't awesome, but it's enough to subsidize my college student lifestyle, not to mention the fact that getting paid to watch and write about sports is awesome!

In another time, when I coudl string thoughts together, I did scene reports and concert and record reviews for little indy rock mags. I am also trying to get a novel out of my head but the brain ain't letting it come.

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customerjon @gmail.com is where information happens.

Tibbs, you missed your deadline for the book report. I suggest you start your writing comeback there.

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"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

Try this - it may help

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I've written for and been published in the following publications:

Triathlon Today!

Triathlete.

Inside Triathlon.

Velo News.

Bicycle Guide.

Bicycling.

Outside.

Michigan Sports and Fitness.

Dearborn Press & Guide.

My agent is Andrew Zack, of The Zack Company. I have two pending book proposals, neither one of which has sold, and a stack of rejection letters from the finest publishers in the world.

Additionally, I've done some writing for www.xtri.com several years ago.

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com

I write legal briefs and motions for a living. I've published a couple of articles in law reviews and other trade publications. Nothing I'm particularly proud of.

I love the craft and precision of good writing, but I'm not very creative. My husband thinks I should try to write a romance novel, since I'm such a fan of the genre. But, I don't think I have it in me to write a good sex scene; most that I read are just awful -- so hokey and overblown. It's very difficult to walk the line between stupidly sentimental and pornographic.

My agent is

Tom, do you need an agent for the articles, or is he mainly for getting the books published? How did you go about getting an agent?

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"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

My agent found me after I wrote an editorial about the beginning of the Persian Gulf War. It was read by over 2 million people, appeared in other websites and numerous forums and wound up on key desks throughout Washington. MSNBC and a number of news agencies contacted me about my "sources".

It was fiction. I wrote it in 45 minutes one morning. Following that I was contacted by several literary agents. They wanted to know "Who represented me?" Prior to that I had never heard of a literary agent.

I signed with Andrew Zack because of his background working with authors in the Special Operations community such as Robert Gormly, author of "Combat Swimmer: Memoirs of a Navy SEAL." Andrew was an editor at a top publishing house also, so he knows how to pitch to the best publishers.

Andrew only represents my current book projects, "Race to a Distant Sunrise" and "The Tango Variable", neither of which has been enthusiastically received by publishers. But he keeps trying. That's another reason I like him: He never gives up.

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Tom Demerly
The Tri Shop.com

Vitus979, assuming you still want to read it after our intense religious discussion, here it is, 237 words, to be exact.

Pinocchio Flies in the Montana Breeze



The line spins out over the water, flicking up droplets that paint a rainbow in

the air. The feather wings of the red quill mayfly alight upon the rushing waters of

the Blackfoot. As the stream playfully tugs on the line, his weathered fingers gently

pull it back in. Then with a snap that is both violent and beautiful, his practiced

hands roll a loop down the line re-orbiting the fly until it bounces in eddies washing

over black stones flecked with a green beard of moss not yet removed by nature’s

razor. As the water bobbles the fly’s delicate wings, tied with the same precise

and caring fingers, it nearly seems alive. He almost pities it for not being real, like

Gepetto praying his wooden boy might be more.



Ascending from the wishing star of the riverbed, a rainbow trout breaks through

the window of water and seizes the fly, giving it life as fly and trout briefly soar

through the air before both crash back to earth. The splash of water melds with the

whirring gears of the reel as foot after foot of green line chases down the winding

curves of the river. The calloused yet caring fingers go to work, cranking the reel

and letting it run, until finally, as if disgusted by the lie, the trout again breaks the

surface, spitting the mayfly back into the breeze, letting it fly once again.

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I await the harsh criticism that is sure to follow...

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"Non est ad astra mollis e terris via." - Seneca | rappstar.com | FB - Rappstar Racing | IG - @jordanrapp

I don't see how our religious discussion has any bearing. Good story.

I like the way you introduce the fisherman- kinda caught me off guard. And I especially like the characterization of the trout- "as if disgusted by the lie."

Nice. Interesting genre- close to poetry, sorta.

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"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

poetry and songs/lyrics.

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"your horse is too high" - tigerchik

Thank you.

One of the funniest ones I have read is only two sentences. There are a couple of one sentence (multi-clause ones). Anyway, the one which I love, which is by an author who I forgot is as follows (as best as I can remember...):


It's very hard to share a Manhanttan studio apartment in the summer with a man learning to play violin. At least, that's what she told the police when she handed them the gun.

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"Non est ad astra mollis e terris via." - Seneca | rappstar.com | FB - Rappstar Racing | IG - @jordanrapp

I have written articles for a variety of business magazines on subjects like finance, financial systems, process improvements, strategy, cost reduction, etc. etc. It's only a small part of my job. I started to write a book because I thought it might be fun but got distracted and never really made a dent into it and now the material is outdated.

I cannot edit my own stuff and I am in desperate need of a grammar refresher course(s).

Writing well is a trade that requires a lot of practice over a lifetime.

I've had a few training related articles published in magazines and websites. Do a lot of triathlon lifestyle-related writing for my personal website. Over the years I've scratched out 1.5 novels, both of which are currently in the graveyard for unpublished / unfinished work. I'll need to change my life significantly to ever have the uninterrupted period of time necessary (for me) to pound out a good novel-length work of fiction. Either that or quit triathlon, which ain't happening. The current 9-5er saps too much creative energy. I am taking steps to make this a reality.

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Marty Gaal, CSCS
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After writing many many historical papers in college, I learned who to use aronyms and how to delete unnecessary articles, verbs, and adjectives from my writing, and now I've discovered my true calling. Now I can write Navy Message Traffic with the best of them. No one can spit out a best selling CASREP like me. No one has mastered the form of the LOGREQ quite like I have. But far and away my favorite format is the fictional nature of the Unit SITREP. I once wrote a very nice little piece about a fuel spill pierside in Coronado, CA. Really some of my best work. I tied all the characters into the plot, and I really think I got the reader to care about the individuals, especially the Base EPA Rep.

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Slowguy

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I am taking steps to make this a reality.

What steps, if you don't mind me asking?

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"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

That's pretty funny, commodore. Message traffic is like a second language that I haven't practiced in a long time. I can still understand it, but I can't speak it anymore.

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"People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."

I've been published a couple times in computer-related trade publications. I designed a rather unique web-based application for pairing user-selected preferences with stored data in libraries/universities and ended up getting an my article on the software on the cover of a magazine. My idea has since been copied and disseminated all over the world, unfortunately, no one here (me especially) got rich off the idea. Someone else probably did.

3 classes left in a MBA program (finishing what I started)

growing my coaching business at a sustainable rate

stashing cash to weather the hump when I part ways with corporate america to focus on the above & writing projects while working from home in my pajamas!

Not publishing sex novels under the nom de plume of "Buck Turgidsen" anymore?