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Are those smoke rings from all the marijuana?

And one ring will obscure all the others, in a world where you can't see your own hand!

High fantasy beats low humour any day.

High fantasy beats low humour any day.

Or low humor about high fantasy, such as when Gandolf eats an entire meal of beans as they're trying to sneak through the underground halls of the abandoned Dwarven Kingdom.

If puns had to be funny

You don't have any worries there.

It is the effort, not the result that counts

If the result you seek is to annoy the fuck out of people, then your efforts are a success.

Time of eden and elves

SOL may not have that many of those types of stories, but if you enjoy those types of stories, you may like the MORFs Universe. It is mostly 200-300K word stories.

So now it's superheroes and vampires. I wonder what will be the Next Big Thing?

The Big Bang. Now it's all about nerdy scientists unable to make sense of the real world (it's appealing, since it makes people think they're better off knowing next to nothing).

As for me, although I've read a few zombie books that sounded promising, my one Zombie story was written as a way of turning the genre on it's head, writing about how human and misunderstood zombies would be where the first impulse is to put a bullet into their brains.

I started reading Worm and had to give it up because I didn't have the time. I agree, it's a great story. But professionally it's nigh on unpublishable and I don't see it as a moneyspinner :(

AJ

Also, the Author got a massive fanbase and enough Patreon support, that he could live off of Patreon money alone while he writes his next projects.

Fully deserved, IMO.

AJ

I am astounded by the fact that I know people who truly believe there are zombies living among us and they will attack us.

I believe that Bob Hope described them correctly - those are called Democrats.

The Democrats in Hope's era are today's Republicans.

No. I'd say the Trumpies are the zombies. I even heard one say he knew Trump was a liar, but Trump would never lie to his supporters.

It is interesting that this morning Trump tweeted - "91% of the Network News about me is negative (Fake)."

The media is saying that proves Trump's interprets negative coverage as fake news. :)

I even heard one say he knew Trump was a liar, but Trump would never lie to his supporters.

Anyone who claims that politicians don't lie is seriously delusional. And it doesn't matter which party they belong to.

Agreed. In my opinion politicians have to lie in some situations, but not all the time.

Most politicians wouldn't recognize the truth if it bit them in the ass.

And it usually does!

Unfortunately there seem to be a few with a talent for arranging things so it bites someone else's ass.

Yeah, and it's usually the common people.

Unfortunately there seem to be a few with a talent for arranging things so it bites someone else's ass.

That's called 'deflection', as in 'deflecting people's anger at another target so you remain in office'.

Most politicians wouldn't recognize the truth if it bit them in the ass.

Truth would never bite a politician in the ass. It knows getting the taste out of its mouth would be next to impossible.

Anyone who claims that politicians don't lie is seriously delusional. And it doesn't matter which party they belong to.

That's true, but painting them all with the same brush hides the 'too polite to criticize those they're working with' with the horribly corrupt of inept.

I am astounded by the fact that I know people who truly believe there are zombies living among us and they will attack us.

I'm not surprised because there are some real zombies living amongst us, but most people call them elected officials.

Like you, I don't understand the attraction of vampires, zombies, and werewolves. I also don't understand why people watch scary movies and also claim they don't like being scared by them.

Way, way back when I was young, the attraction (for guy's) was that girl's liked to be scared so they'd have an excuse to cuddle (without being groped). For girls, it always seemed to center around finding the 'bad guy' (Dracula) sexy, or people being misunderstood (Frankenstein and the mummy).

Nowadays, it seems people prefer an 'immersion' experience (ex: The Walking Dead, where there's not real need for character development, as any time the story slows, you simply throw in a favorite character who's suddenly 'turned'.

It's a fad, or "trend," or whatever you want to call it. Entertainment, like everything else, has a lot of "me-too" in it. Notice that there's never just one blockbuster movie about a thing. If there's a natural disaster movie, then there's two natural disaster movies. If there's a vampire movie, then there's two vampire movies, etc.

Not really. Most authors here don't write 'Do-over' stories because they're a fad, but because, when you read one, you're often inspired to write a better story. That's the same reason most authors choose subject matter, so it's really has nothing at all to do with fads. It's just that, when something becomes popular, other authors tend to respond in kind. That's NOT a causal reaction (i.e the 'fad' didn't produce it), instead it's normal reaction to reading by authors. Or do you object to authors who read recent books?