ONCE MORE FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED...

Status: Writing on A Girl Named Mystery. (2nd draft--2008 version.) Chapter 3.

Doing: Writing on this blog; answering e-mails; working out, and well...you know the rest! :0)

Watching: Nothing at the moment.

Listening to: Disturb's "10,000 Fists"-CD

Reading: Kushiel's Scion. Page 414.

STAR TREK-THE NEXT GENERATION: WAR DRUMS. Page 78.

STAR TREK-NEW EARTH: BOOK 5 OF 6-THIN AIR. Page 45.

TOPIC: READ MY LIPS: I...AM...NOT...LIM~IT~ING MYSELF!

Some of you on Yahoo! Answers think that I should limit myself in my writing because I'm not published.

Some of you think that I should try to tell a story in about 200 pages or less.

Some of you think that I should cap my word count usage between 70,000 and 80,000 words.

Some of you think that just because I'm not Stephen King, then I'm not good enough for the likes of you.

Well, I have some breaking news that just came in over the wires a short while ago:

I AM NOT A ROBOT!!!

YOU PEOPLE WANT TO DO THESE BOOKS YOUR WAY--?

THEN YOU COME OVER TO MY PLACE ON 112TH STREET IN EVERETT, WASHINGTON--AND I WILL GLADLY TURN OVER MY REBUILT PC; AND LET YOU UNQUALIFIED TURKEYS TAKE A SPIN AT WHAT YOU WOULD CONSIDER "GOOD WRITING"!

GO AHEAD!

TRY TO TACKLE MY MULTIPLE SUBPLOTS AND STORYLINES AND SEE IF YOU CAN SQUEEZE SOMETHING THE SIZE OF THE FUCKING TITANIC INTO THE DIMENSIONAL SPACE OF A COUNTERTOP BREAD BOX EVERY DAY!

I DARE YOU!

IF YOU CAN'T, THEN STOP TRYING TO LIMIT ME!

THESE ARE MY BOOKS AND I WILL WRITE THEM HOWEVER I SEE FIT!

STOP TRYING TO GET ME TO FOLLOW THE CROWD AND ALLOW ME THE LUXURY OF CHARTING MY OWN COURSE IN LIFE WITH MY WRITING!

I PEN LARGE BOOKS ESPECIALLY BECAUSE I LIKE THE CHALLENGE--NOT SO I CAN LIMIT MYSELF.

IF COMPARING ME TO OTHER AUTHORS IN THE PAST IS THE BEST YOU PEOPLE CAN COME UP--THEN I HAVE A NEWS FLASH:

THEY AREN'T ME. I AM NOT THEM! I DID NOT GROW UP IDOLIZING ANYBODY!

I GREW UP ON MY OWN, I WROTE ON MY OWN, AND I AM DAMNED PROUD OF MY OWN ACCOMPLISHMENTS!

AND I DID IT ALL WITHOUT HAVING SOMEONE LOOKING OVER MY SHOULDER, HOLDING MY HAND, MEETING ME HALF-WAY, OR DOING ALL THE WORK THEMSELVES.

THAT IS THE SIGN OF A TRUE AND TRIED WRITER WHO DOESN'T WRITE FOR MONEY, DOESN'T WRITE FOR THE FAME, COULD CARE LESS ABOUT FORTUNE, NAME RECOGNITION, AND ALL THE HOLLYWOOD GLITZ AND GLAMOUR THAT MOST WRITERS THESE DAYS OBSESS THEMSELVES OVER CONSTANTLY ON A DAILY BASIS.

IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE MY BLISTERING WORDS, THEN YOU'RE DEFINITELY IN THE WRONG BUSINESS!

THIS MESSAGE IS JUST A REMINDER THAT WHEN PEOPLE START PUSHING ME AROUND, I PUSH BACK TWICE AS HARD.

I AM NOT AFRAID. I WILL FIGHT FOR WHAT I BELIEVE IN TO MY LAST BREATH IF NEED BE.

THAT IS HOW DEDICATED AND PASSIONATE I AM ABOUT WHAT I DO AS A MUSE AND SCRIBE.

BECAUSE I AM NOT LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. AND I PLAN TO KEEP IT THAT WAY.

IF YOU STILL HAVE ANY FUTURE PROBLEMS WITH ME OR MY BIG BOOKS, PLEASE DROP A NOTE OFF INTO THE SUGGESTIONS BOX AND ME OR MY MANAGEMENT STAFF WILL GET BACK TO YOU AT OUR CONVENIENCE.

THANK YOU AND HAVE A GREAT NIGHT!

Schuyler Rahwn Thorpe