somebody quick!

[tyrannosaurus vex]

write this book so we can get it published and make literally TENS of dollars.

[LHX]

does it come wiff a free membership to PD.com??

[tyrannosaurus vex]

it might, i dunno. i didn't write it.

but .. on a more mockery-inducing note:
i know this forum is all about flyers and everything but with all the publishing houses out there, what are the chances of (and interest in) writing a full-fledged book about this crap and trying to get it published?

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does it come wiff a free membership to PD.com??

Yes, young man, it does.
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it might, i dunno. i didn't write it.

but .. on a more mockery-inducing note:
i know this forum is all about flyers and everything but with all the publishing houses out there, what are the chances of (and interest in) writing a full-fledged book about this crap and trying to get it published?

Who knows until we've put together a document and pitched it to 'em?  Or finagled an agent into doing so?


And, forget the publishing house. 

If we can get powerful people interested we can go straight to the printers on a small batch of booklets.  If we have the money and the correct files, they'll print it.

[AFK]

it might, i dunno. i didn't write it.

but .. on a more mockery-inducing note:
i know this forum is all about flyers and everything but with all the publishing houses out there, what are the chances of (and interest in) writing a full-fledged book about this crap and trying to get it published?

I don't know about the likelyhood of us ever being organized enough to come up with a book.  I could see more of a compilation type deal like, say in a year if we had come up with enough pamphlets we could edit them together.  As far as publishing, that's probably a good question for Syn. 

[LHX]

any time somebody comes up with a theme, the writing pours in

since i been posting here, contests always got incredible entries, the BIP writing came together in a matter of about 2 weeks last year, and the writing for SBOTD is all fire


the idea for orbital bombing monthly was dope
monthly
quarterly
online

there are possibilities






on a related note, im starting to like that theme idea

lead in with nothing more than a theme and then everybody drops their perspective on it

it would actually be kind of interesting to see

since nobody here holds passionately to any 'opinion', all the writing that comes out has a tendency to be slightly detached but potent and objective

EDIT:
and completely different

[AFK]

I thought it was interesting on the original BIP pamphlet how we had 8 or 9 distinct personalities, all writing on their own, and how together we ended up having an anti-teevee subcurrent in the pamphlet.  Not every single piece addressed television but a lot of them did. 

But your right.  I think laying down an idea and having everyone write something on it could prove to be a productive route to take.  I would really love to see us get something published. 

[Mangrove]

write this book so we can get it published and make literally TENS of dollars.

i really like this. yay vex!

[P3nT4gR4m]

I've said it already and I'll say it again - we've written at least one book already. (probably a hell of a lot more) Somebody needs to play editor and go thread mining to find it. Damn near everything that's written here, outside the smalltalk/chitchat categories is based around a theme, for want of a better word let's call it 'discord'. A great deal is well above par. I'm guessing it'd be an anthology with chapters dedicated to specific discordian themes, each containing numerous expositions on said.

I don't got the patience or inclination to do it but maybe someone here does and just hasn't thought of it yet - hence this post.

[AFK]

It's a nice thought Silly, and one that I've had.  But this forum is already 3 pages long I think.  And many of the threads have half a dozen or more pages.  That's a lot to go through, and then to piece it together.  It's a great idea, I just don't know how practical and likely it is when you factor in time committment. 

[tyrannosaurus vex]

I might start work on a longer edited-together compilation-type project.  But what I was really asking about was the possibility of making a single, coherent work in the vein of the BIP.  It's just brainstorming, maybe it won't get farther than the first page of replies on this thread, but it seems to me like a lot of people here talk about big projects so there might be some interest in a massive project.

Now, a word to motives and results:  A full-length book is NOT going to accomplish meme-bombing or flashes of "illumination" like a flyer or pamphlet might do.  It won't serve as a mass-produced tantalizing glimpse at another world of purposeful existence.  But it might serve other useful functions, like (within the context of the book's subject) getting everyone to produce prolifically.  Surely if we brainstorm the shit out of a full-length book, what's rejected will amount to a pile of pamphlets.

Also, if it does get published and (goddess forbid) actually sell (we know there are plenty of people out there who eat up the Self-Help section at Barnes & Noble), it might provide a meager source of revenue for future projects.

disclaimer: This is probably one of those situations where I have an idea that's way too big, and it gets shot down for being a pipe-dream.  I'm aware of this so don't be shy with the criticism.

[LMNO]

I'm not sure y'all realize how much of a chore it is to edit a forum into a book.  If someone wants to get me an advance that will pay me $1000 a week to thread dive and edit, I can get you a book in about 2 months.  But in the scant time I have while trying to feed my family & pay my mortgage,  sorry.


LMNO
-bought into the game, but has a fireplace & money for booze.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Vex - best way to avoid falling into the pipedream thing is do it yourself. Just start, do as much as you can and then, if you need it, ask for help. Projects that begin with "I know this sounds like pie in the sky but...", usually don't get off the ground. You're selling air and nobody buys that shit. My advice, go away spend every minute of your spare time working on this relentlessly, pull in weekend, all night, caffeine and nicotine sessions and then lay what you did on the table and say "Anyone interested in helping me with this?"

Then I got your back. I'll buy in. I'll work as hard as I can to make this fucker happen. I'll commit 100% of the time I have available to turning this idea into reality. But if all you got's an idea then I don't give a shit. There's too many great ideas like that flying around, day in , day out. I gotta pick them carefully. I thrown away way too much time on projects that fizzled out because they began as a Stupendous idea someone blurted out on the internets.

Ideas are great but only deeds happen.

[Mangrove]

vex,

i don't think it's a bad idea at all. sometimes i wonder if it'd be easier to write a book from scratch based on the forum rather than go through every last thread and try and edit it into something.

i'd go for 'distillation' and start from the ground up rather than creating a collage.

but that's just me. i in fact, do have a lot of time on my hands currently, though that is slowly changing....and i need it to change (faster) because me & mrs mang' are rather short of $$.