From Mr. Pacione’s newest MySpace entry, we have this:
Damn — I am laughing right now because I never thought in less than four months I would actually have a 143 page book on my hands.
That’s approaching Dostoyevsky or Rand, alright! He’s only got another 600 pages to go to match either one of them.
That size fucking shocks me because I never thought I would actually do something that length in my life time, not even at 21 when I was writing short stories back then
Assuming typical manuscript conventions of 12 point Courier or Times New Roman with 1″ margins, it’s a short novel in my estimation. I could be wrong; I know jackshit about writing.
When you reached this mark with a book there is no turning back, you have to keep going and the ideas that come about will scare you even more because what I am writing isn’t fiction but all true.
What the hell does that mean?
70,000 words in four months … whoopie-dinky-doo. I’ve written longer fanfics in less time, let alone real books.
Okay, who fixed it so that the first hit of a search for “pacione wikipedia” is the entry for the word “schmuck”?
I routinely write more than that, also, Sabledrake. Can’t help it.
Sphinx, I don’t know much impact it had, but for a while I was linking every occurrence of Nicky’s name on my blog to that entry. If you do a Google search on “nickolaus pacione”, that same hit shows up near the bottom of page 3.
I just want to kick him in the balls.
the wolf man has nards?
Even I can shoot off 3000 words of meaningless drivel in my spare time in a single evening. Granted, I have to be inspired. Sure, it’s drivel, but even a first draft of mine reads a darn sight better than anything Pacione could vomit from his keyboard. It’s only for my own, and friends’, amusement.
Who cares, Nick? I wrote 52,000+ words in 25 days! Know what I did to celebrate? Kissed my wife and went to sleep. Quality validates your abilities, Nick, not quantity. I’ll take one page from a good writer over all 143pgs of your drivel. So while you’re patting yourself on the back because your paper stacks up, keep in mind that all you’re really doing is shoveling shit from a sitting position.
LMAO, Shadowtron. You nailed it.
Quality will always count for more than quantity. I have a tendency to throw away about 25% of what I produce in the course of writing a novel. I seriously doubt that Nicky knows how to discern between what should be kept and what should be tossed in the course of writing something.
He just shoves a lot of words on a page and calls it a masterpiece with no editing.
In all fairness, Janrae, I don’t necessarily know what needs to be tossed in one of my short stories, or episodes, if you will, but I can tell when something doesn’t quite work.
Can a scene be salvaged and reworked, or must it be chucked? I don’t have an editor’s perspective on it. Sometimes, I just chuck a scene and start over because it’s easier than doing a salvage job. Maybe I’m lazy. Or maybe I’m too clinical.
Nicky has a new blog up. He is still missing the point.
10 pages of quality fan fiction is still better than 200 pages of original shit filled with bad grammar, dumb dialog, poor words choices.