What is the deal with these fucking fucko writers bitching about other writers selling their shit on Amazon for 99 cents? What a bunch of arrogant cockheads.
They're saying 99 cents "devalues" writing. Let me ask you this, asstards: does that 99-cent breakfast burrito you stuffed your piehole with this morning devalue burritos? Do those ugly-ass 99-cent flip flops you wear devalue footwear? But you don't care about that, do you? Because you're a Writer, and you're so fucking Important.
You know what's important? Shoes. But you don't really much care about the miserable fucking people in Burma or wherever the fuck working in sweatshops at 1 cent a day to make those flip flops you put your big clown feet in. Because they're not Important. They're not Writers.
Don't give me any of that highminded shit about humankind's unquenchable thirst for narrative. That's abstract horseshit. You know what's not abstract horseshit? "No Shirt No Shoes No Service." Shoes are important.
Plus I'll bet a lot of you snooty poseur fucks go get your cover images from places like istockphoto. What about your fucking fellow creatives? Photographers say microstock services are devaluing photography. Do you give a fuck? I'll bet you don't. I'll bet you even write blog posts telling other Important Writers how to make covers on the cheap. I'll bet you tell them to use free fonts too. Don't fontmakers deserve to eat? Or do they just get to eat your scraps? Jesus fuck, you piss me off.
If you wrote War & Peace or you were Vladimir Fucking Nabokov, maybe you could talk about other people devaluing writing. Even then you should shut the fuck up. But at least you wouldn't be the author of Teen Ghost High School or Mommy Never Loved Me or Alien Ass-Rape putting on airs. Hey, I might actually want to read Alien Ass-Rape. But not if you're so fucking snooty.
I'll tell you when you shouldn't shut the fuck up about devaluing writing. When you make every fucking purchase in your life the same way you want your goddamn precious writing to be treated. When you make sure your flip flops don't come from sweat shops. When you make sure that fucking ereader or ipad you fondle like a clit isn't thrown away and disassembled in China where all the chemicals leak into the groundwater and babies are born with their kidneys on their foreheads. When you actually fucking make the requested contribution to the font designer whose work you slapped on your cover and then charged for it. When you don't go taking advantage of the same fucking technologies that are devaluing other creative work but then whine about the same technologies devaluing yours. Because every other person on the planet is just as important as you are--more important, if they make shoes.
Otherwise, SUCK IT.
Hallelujah.
ReplyDeleteIf you are equating photographs with novels, you are a fucking moron, whoever you are.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you have your head too far up your ass to know this, but let me 'splain it to you.
To make a photograph, you need to point a camera and press a button.
Writing a novel is work -- long, hard, creative work.
This is why your Aunt Petunia has books full of her Florida vacation photographs, but has never written a novel.
Who cares if I take a photograph from someone's website and use it for the cover to my ebook? At least then people will see your shitty picture.
Kyle,
ReplyDeleteSuck my ass.