tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938941270066027033.post5987812066780595130..comments2008-04-16T18:38:28.238+01:00authonomynoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938941270066027033.post-26234790841708384932008-04-16T18:38:00.000+01:002008-04-16T18:38:00.000+01:00

You can't steal what's been given to you as a gift. And that, as far as I'm concerned, is what writing should be - a gift.

Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13770069472552779217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938941270066027033.post-77443830797001031092008-03-30T12:12:00.000+01:002008-03-30T12:12:00.000+01:00

Please can someone tell me when the authonomy site itself is going to be available? I thought it a brilliant idea when I heard about it last August but sadly, the reality seems no closer than it did then. Having got entirely bored with waiting, I answered all the copyright questions for myself and have developed my own website (www.mmbennetts.com) to do what authonomy has yet to deliver. I will

mmbennettswww.mmbennetts.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938941270066027033.post-62121177793144694602008-03-26T16:25:00.000Z2008-03-26T16:25:00.000Z

Switzerland.<BR/><BR/>"Hi Tim. Nemesis' won't be happy if she catches you on her blog."<BR/>"Everyone's gone. It's like a crater on the Moon, so she won't know."<BR/>"While the cat's away?"<BR/>"Sylvie, as soon as this blog ends, it'll be back to the book for all of us."<BR/>"To be or not to be black and white and read all over again? Has Alien begun the sequel yet?"<BR/>"Yes, but he's taken

Nemesishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11297959826996405237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938941270066027033.post-90846078178695604392008-03-21T09:59:00.000Z2008-03-21T09:59:00.000Z

"This is Nemesis. I am sorry I am not available to answer your call, but if you wish to leave a message, please speak after the tone."<BR/><BR/>"Hi Nemesis, it's your narrator speaking. I have now completed all your required changes up to and including the penultimate chapter. With regard to the final chapter however, our characters are deeply concerned it will be studied by the Listeners before

Nemesishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11297959826996405237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938941270066027033.post-10089751675998560752008-03-16T14:02:00.000Z2008-03-16T14:02:00.000Z

"Bonjour Alien. C'est moi."<BR/>"Hello Francesca. It's not necessary to speak French."<BR/>"Sorry if I got jealous."<BR/>"You're too sensitive for words."<BR/>"Oui, je sais."<BR/>"Are you well?"<BR/>"Yes, I am now Alien, and I've brought you some more green ink."<BR/>"You stole that line from my favourite film, which by the way, the critics trounced."<BR/>"But your ink really is green."<BR/>"So

Nemesishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11297959826996405237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938941270066027033.post-34889383770872101802008-03-09T15:14:00.000Z2008-03-09T15:14:00.000Z

Alien, why is it so quiet on this blog now?<BR/>"Bonjour Nemesis, je ne sais pas. Si j'essaye deviner tout le monde a peur maintenant."<BR/>Never mind, how's the final write progressing?<BR/>"Je pense que c'est presque soixante-dix pourcent fini maintenant, sans les mots impropres."<BR/>Alien, je realise que vous avez idees fantaisistes concernant une vedette de cinema francaise magnifique, mais

Nemesishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11297959826996405237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938941270066027033.post-54549511067175439052008-02-27T10:37:00.000Z2008-02-27T10:37:00.000Z

Excuse me bloggers, but unlike Nemesis, who has a direct line to our narrator, this is the only place I can talk to him.<BR/><BR/>"Alien, after last month's plane crash and last night's Earthquake, I'm beginning to think you should look for another title for our little book. Nemesis' demonstrations fighten me sometimes. I was thinking about Apocalypse Now?"<BR/>"Hi Francesca. Nice one, but I

Nemesishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11297959826996405237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938941270066027033.post-91931739527120503412008-02-24T11:28:00.000Z2008-02-24T11:28:00.000Z

Paladin wonders how it would feel to be so popular a writer that others will risk copying?<BR/>Actually, it's not so bad. I have inspired books, TV dramas, films, newspaper articles, and countless advertisements.<BR/><BR/>You see, I, Nemesis, am a popular goddess and will no doubt be plagiarised to eternity, by every nationality, but it's fine. I also empathise for those who, like my author,

Nemesishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11297959826996405237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938941270066027033.post-22721483002438584022008-02-22T18:25:00.000Z2008-02-22T18:25:00.000Z

Paladin<BR/><BR/>It would be great fun and very profitable. It is quite remarkable that people are so scared of their big idea being stolen. If you only have one big idea, forget the slush pile, you are on the junk pile.<BR/><BR/>I think you should have one big idea a day.<BR/><BR/>Today's big idea for me is:<BR/><BR/>Thanks whatever that I didn't have the authonomy.com idea.<BR/><BR/>It seems

ZeBeDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01213548690487176161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938941270066027033.post-40596330715438683252008-02-21T22:02:00.000Z2008-02-21T22:02:00.000Z

I wonder how it would feel to be so popular a writer that people are willing to risk stealing your ideas. In China they often write and publish their own versions of 'big' books before they come out in the west (Harry Potter was one such example) do you think that the big stars ever buy any of these to get a good laugh or the occasional good idea? They wrote their own Clinton biography and I

Paladinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11325828772274193214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938941270066027033.post-22199923093500099562008-02-13T11:59:00.000Z2008-02-13T11:59:00.000Z

Z.<BR/><BR/>Congratulations on the tennis promotion. My narrator, Alien, is the opposite. He used to play tennis infinitely better than he writes, and now surfs and skis better than he plays tennis, which says a lot for his writing.<BR/><BR/>Adorable people Australians. Smart, reliable, beautiful, utterly relaxed and grossly underestimated commercially, and that's just the men. Argentina must

Nemesishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11297959826996405237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938941270066027033.post-82018014088818024582008-02-12T11:02:00.000Z2008-02-12T11:02:00.000Z

N<BR/><BR/>Tennis?<BR/><BR/>I write better than I play tennis, but I put the same unflagging passion into both.<BR/><BR/>We have been promoted into the first division, where everyone is a coach, or has played at county level or on the pro circuit.<BR/><BR/>We will be butchered.<BR/><BR/>Ah, well, one last hurrah for the old war dog.

ZeBeDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01213548690487176161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938941270066027033.post-49507673439027699792008-02-11T21:20:00.000Z2008-02-11T21:20:00.000Z

N<BR/><BR/>Being of Dawkinsian persuasion, the notion of holy British companies is not one I warm to. But good to see you have done your research. <BR/><BR/>I have always been curious about the Australians, which is related to the fact that we were emigrating to Oz, but ended up in darkest Argentina. It seems my parents were not very good at hitting the target. I never made it to Australia.

ZeBeDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01213548690487176161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938941270066027033.post-34889906606962486532008-02-11T11:45:00.000Z2008-02-11T11:45:00.000Z

Z,<BR/>HC is no longer a holy owned British Company. It is wholly owned by Australians, who know the answer to the question: do we sell what we manufacture, or manufacture what we sell? I know them well, and they like the unusual, usually. <BR/>On a much more enjoyable topic, how's the tennis progressing?

Nemesisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938941270066027033.post-41549829955298577052008-02-10T19:50:00.000Z2008-02-10T19:50:00.000Z

An article on how the big, household name writers first got published would be interesting. <BR/><BR/>Ian McEwan, Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, Vikram Seth, Lloyd Jones (Mister Pip, should have won the Booker Prize)... How did it happen?<BR/><BR/>Did they submit to the slush pile? Were they stars on the UEA creative writing courses (the UEA courses expose the pupils to publishers and agents)?

ZeBeDeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01213548690487176161noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6938941270066027033.post-78492483915656162982008-02-10T11:20:00.000Z2008-02-10T11:20:00.000Z

The Authonomy concept, allowing readers to decide what to publish, follows the lines of the current TV talent shows. After consultation, my characters and I do "feel the same", to "board" your vessel for a voyage that leads to who knows where, and as we are all excellent swimmers, if our book sinks, we'll survive to fight another way. <BR/>However, this is still a "business", and raises questions

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