From: mumble@nomail.invalid   
      
   On 06/11/2014 10:08 AM, Remus Shepherd wrote:   
      
   > Author Fame 4:  You have been getting stories out there, on the internet   
   > or in small magazines, and have amassed a fair-sized audience.  (~1,000)   
   > Author Fame 5:  You have published something in such a way to attact   
   > attention, equivalent to a minor novel or a short story in a major magazine.   
      
   >     As a counter example, I'm solidly in Fame 4 and I don't think I could get   
   > a Kickstarter off the ground because I'm an irascible asshole.  Even those   
   > in Fame 5 are struggling to get a larger audience and may not be well-known   
   > enough to use their fans as a resource.  We don't all have Sea Wasp's   
   > silver-tongued charm.  :)  But some authors *do*.   
      
   Being an irascible asshole is not certain death.   
      
   It's been a long time since I read Heinlein, but wasn't Lazarus Long an   
   irascible asshole?  Weren't a fair number of Heinlein's characters   
   qualified as irascible assholes?   
      
   Wasn't Dirty Harry an irascible asshole?  Isn't pretty much every   
   character Bruce Willis ever played an irascible asshole with a sense of   
   humor?   
      
   Don't the irascible assholes of the world like to see other irascible   
   assholes win when they're in the right?   
      
   Don't sell yourself short, use what you have.  If you're really an   
   irascible asshole then let your protagonists be irascible assholes while   
   you just sit back and look really good.    
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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