[MD] SOPA and PIPA

[Carl Thames]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tuukka Virtaperko" <mail at tuukkavirtaperko.net>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2012 1:43 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] SOPA and PIPA


>Tuukka:
> in addition, I have already published a work, and it's on sale. But it's 
> in Finnish. And I didn't self-publish that one. Well, I self-published an 
> edition of 100 books, but then a publisher got interested and made an 
> edition of 500 books. This all happened last year.

Carl:
All of the stuff I've published was in magazines, which are good for a month 
and then go away.  I did a couple of video scripts that were produced, but 
they were essentially industrial, and therefore an exercise in frustration 
and excellent lessons in dealing with stuff I don't want to deal with.  I 
haven't even tried to get published for over 10 years now.  The magazine 
stuff was fun, but it was mostly fiction, which is what I like to do.  The 
magazine that I was being published in most often decided they didn't want 
to do fiction any more, so that went away.  That's about when I stopped 
trying to be published.  I'm living on disability right now too, for mental 
problems, (major depression) and an being "rehabilitated" by the state. 
i.e. they're paying for my college.  I'm working on a Master's degree in 
Counseling.  I spent a lot of years listening to people so I could do 
dialogue, and found that people really respond when you actually take the 
time to listen to them.  I can get paid (hopefully enough to live on) with 
the degree, and I like the idea of helping people, so it should work out 
okay.  I like it and I seem to be pretty good at it, so I'm going to do it.

I don't know if I'll ever get back to writing like I used to.  The fire is 
mostly gone.  A lot of that happened after I took the anti-depressants for a 
year or so.  I'm not taking them any more, but the creative stuff is a lot 
more difficult now.  Before, people would ask me where I got my ideas, and 
my reply was, "How do you get them to stop?"  Now, I have to work for them. 
I do a blog now and then, but it's not something I feel driven to do.  If 
you're interested, it's at:

http://brokebrainfool.blogspot.com/

The title of the blog pretty much sums it up, I think.  The one blog that I 
have linked is a friend in Canada.  He's also a cartoonist, so you might 
want to check it out.

Carl