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Incorrect

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A) Best of luck

B) When you typed out this post, did you actually type "[censored]", or just a swear word like f[/i]uck, that got censored?

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Don't post if this is all you have to contribute

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Wrong again.

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I love this title, every time I read it I instinctively read, "summer of sh*t."

July 1
 

I have been tossing around another possible writing idea and I thought I would get some opinions of it. The "hero" would be by a day a professional poker player who travels the world chasing the latest tournament of big game. This is just a cove r though as his real profession is a hitman, either working for the US government of assassain for hire I haven't decided yet. The crux of the story would be his struggles to juggle his "normal life" and that of telling his tales of being a trained killer.

Thoughts.

Here is a link to the beginning of what I'm working on now.

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My daughter is staying with me for the next week, which occupies alot of time. Consequently I will be looking to only do 750 hands most days for while she is here. After that I want to put in some serious time to get to the 25K hands by mid July.

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Sounds like the Chuck Barris movie.
He was host of the Gong Show and a cia agent

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I have been tossing around another possible writing idea and I thought I would get some opinions of it. The "hero" would be by a day a professional poker player who travels the world chasing the latest tournament of big game. This is just a cove r though as his real profession is a hitman, either working for the US government of assassain for hire I haven't decided yet. The crux of the story would be his struggles to juggle his "normal life" and that of telling his tales of being a trained killer.

Thoughts.

Here is a link to the beginning of what I'm working on now.

untitled

My daughter is staying with me for the next week, which occupies alot of time. Consequently I will be looking to only do 750 hands most days for while she is here. After that I want to put in some serious time to get to the 25K hands by mid July.

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Thoughts?

You're a cool cat and I wish you the best. This idea sounds horrible. Tilt meets True Lies? I think you would be able to write something better if you tried to be more original and stayed away from poker. You're too close to it.

I hope you prove me wrong.

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I have been tossing around another possible writing idea and I thought I would get some opinions of it. The "hero" would be by a day a professional poker player who travels the world chasing the latest tournament of big game. This is just a cove r though as his real profession is a hitman, either working for the US government of assassain for hire I haven't decided yet. The crux of the story would be his struggles to juggle his "normal life" and that of telling his tales of being a trained killer.

Thoughts.

Here is a link to the beginning of what I'm working on now.

untitled

My daughter is staying with me for the next week, which occupies alot of time. Consequently I will be looking to only do 750 hands most days for while she is here. After that I want to put in some serious time to get to the 25K hands by mid July.

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Thoughts?

You're a cool cat and I wish you the best. This idea sounds horrible. Tilt meets True Lies? I think you would be able to write something better if you tried to be more original and stayed away from poker. You're too close to it.

I hope you prove me wrong.

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Ya the more I think about it, the more I believe it would be a bad idea for a book but a not a decent idea for a comic book.

Unless you're talking about the linked one, which is going to be what I write about. If so then yes I hope I prove you wrong.

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I have been tossing around another possible writing idea and I thought I would get some opinions of it. The "hero" would be by a day a professional poker player who travels the world chasing the latest tournament of big game. This is just a cove r though as his real profession is a hitman, either working for the US government of assassain for hire I haven't decided yet. The crux of the story would be his struggles to juggle his "normal life" and that of telling his tales of being a trained killer.


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Well, anything's better than another huge Tolkien-derivative EFC novel. Maybe yours is better than that, but the snippet you provided isn't promising.

If you're going to be serious about this, spend at least a month reading fantasy that isn't Tolkien-derivative, and spend a lot of time refining your premise to something really stellar before you start actually writing. Don't latch on to the first novel idea you get.

(Sorry if I come off as overly bitchy, but this is my field.)