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Timothy Covington's avatar

If your negotiations do not involve speed, surprise, and violence of action, I don't think you are negotiating correctly.

Mary Catelli's avatar

All depends on who the other person is, and what means will be effective.

AJ Decker's avatar

I'll avoid making suggestions that might imply that being stuck with an agent you don't like, but were unlucky enough to sign a binding contract with, then finding a way to convince them to travel out here in person to hand in your manuscript, ... may result in your contract no longer being quite so binding.

Nope, not gonna say anything along those lines at all!

Random Reader / JD's avatar

"Remember that we really don’t know what we’re doing, but we’re enthusiastic about it" in the same vein as "I don't know where I'm going but I'm making good time...".

Always enjoy the ride.. :)

Dale Flowers's avatar

Enthusiasm counts for a lot as long as it's coming from people with a good heart.

Kal Spriggs's avatar

My dwarf barbarian character in D&D had two axes, one was called Diplomacy, one was Stealth. I could always argue with the party that not only did my character know how to use Diplomacy and Stealth, he was proficient with both. I later named a two-handed hammer "Subtlety."

There were times I had to get out the Subtlety hammer.

Tom from WNY's avatar

At a certain point in your life; you must adopt the attitude "If I can't have fun doing what I'm doing, it ain't worth doing."

I've often operated under the philosophy if what I'm doing doesn't involve Lawyers, Guns (with ammo!) and Money (all in plentiful quantity); then I'm not doing it right!

John Hollowell's avatar

Not a writer yet, just a happy Raconteur Press consumer.

Richard Hopkins's avatar

They're still using socks? After you did that three part series on flexible impact weapons? I guess that you can't acquire those items with cheese sandwiches and abuse?

Tom from WNY's avatar

I can buy socks at Dollar General and pay in cash. Same for playground sand at the local weed & seed. Flexible weapons in my State ate forbidden.

George Phillies's avatar

Well said. Your books look great, also.

Kenneth Hall's avatar

"...we’re not turning our veterans loose in a New York high-rise with booze and opportunities for mischief...."

See, this right here is a missed opportunity. Quality entertainment is hard to come by, after all.

SDN's avatar

"the Manhattan folks think we’re barbarians"

And we want to encourage that, so they'll stay there.