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Local Authors => Howard Tayler => Topic started by: Howard Tayler on January 12, 2009, 03:01:07 PM
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Our hosts at Time-Waster's Guide have generously offered to provide some community space for Howard Tayler of Writing Excuses (http://www.writingexcuses.com) and Schlock Mercenary (http://www.schlockmercenary.com) fame. Thanks, guys!
The body of my work can be found at www.schlockmercenary.com (http://www.schlockmercenary.com), and it spans the last eight and a half years. Books are available at store.schlockmercenary.com (http://store.schlockmercenary.com), but the hard-core Time-Waster should be trawling the online archives.
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Welcome to TWG, though I would be very surprised if you hadn't wasted many hours here before.
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Maybe 20 minutes so far, tops.
I need no guide for time-wasting on the internet. I provide that service to others. :-)
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Nice to see you, Howard!
I am wondering, though, what community space it is that you'll be getting here that wasn't already available to you in other well-trafficked sites.
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It's nice sharing a community with Brandon and Dan. We go to a lot of the same events, so it makes sense to share community space with them here.
It's also nice having the various Schlock communities "partitioned" across cyberspace. It's more convenient to my fans if the communities exist where they already are (Facebook, Keenspot, Blank Label, TWG, Nightstar) than if they have to create a login for someplace new (though some fans do exactly that.)
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So basically, it's just another Howard/Schlock forum with no specific, differentiated focus or appeal?
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The community can decide for itself how to differentiate. I suspect it will be a significantly different thanks to the local flavor TWG brings, but it's not really up to me.
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Ssssooooo, what you're saying is...we no longer have to worship you from afar?
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Howard, Hello and welcome!
It'll be nice to see you around.
Love your work and I'm a big fan of WE!
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Ssssooooo, what you're saying is...we no longer have to worship you from afar?
Arm's length, please. Arm's length. :-)
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Welcome, Howard. I got to attend a class you taught once (for Brandon), and really enjoyed what you had to say. I hope you decide to spend more than 20 minutes here in the future.
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It's good to see you here Howard. Folks, if you haven't read Schlock Mercenary, I highly recommend that you go take a look! Just be sure to allocate yourself plenty of time. At one strip a day for eight and a half years, you're looking at over 3,000 strips!
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Woo. Hi, Howard!
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Yay Howard! They finally got you over here ;).
I find it amusing that you are the ultimate reason I ended up here. Started reading Schlock a while ago, and fell in love with the characters. Was really excited when I found the Writing Excuses link and wandered into there as well. Then everyone was nice enough to start up a section on the forum here for the crazy writing prompts...So basically you are to blame for any insanity I have unleashed in these forums ;).
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So basically you are to blame for any insanity I have unleashed in these forums.
Right. Sorry about that everyone!
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We can probably forgive you this time.
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We can probably forgive you this time.
Says who??!! He must answer for his crimes...
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Careful. He may just send Schlock over to answer for him. And Schlock tends to do his talking with his plasguns. :D
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*ominous huuummmm*
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This is great! My two favorite authors on the same basic forum. (I sorta found Brandon Sanderson through Schlock Mercenary, but I also saw Orson Scott Card's endorsement, and knew friends who were reading Elantris and really enjoying it. I don't buy books easily.)
If this keeps up, the forum will really live up to its name.
Let the speculation begin!
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Hey there Howard. I actually met you when you visited DC (in the Beltsville Ward) a while back. Then I found Brandon's books, then Writing Excuses, and thus I have come full circle. Not a huge circle, granted, but hey....
Great work with the comic strip :)