Support for Indie Authors discussion

It's a hundred and thirty-seven years, seven months in the future. You became the best selling Indie author of all time over a hundred years ago. Ten days later you became the most popular writer of all time. Stephen King called and is taking advice from you. And then, five years ago, you died. Even you were not immortal.

The Smithsonian has just called your children, grandchildren, heirs, lawyers, string of lovers... whoever you left behind. They want two items donated for a new exhibit of the greatest Indie authors ever. What of yours will be donated?

For me, it will be my incredible bathrobe and my Kurt Vonnegut doll.

Dang (my spectral self might say), I shoulda kept that 3.25-in DOS floppy with the original chapter of our first book no one liked on it. How about one of those coffee cups people keep in their office for 30 years and never wash, so eventually you just pour hot water in it and wait?

On second thought, lemme get back to you on this...

Owen wrote: "Dang (my spectral self might say), I shoulda kept that 3.25-in DOS floppy with the original chapter of our first book no one liked on it..."

I wish I still had some of mine, too.

The phone I wrote Everyone Dies At The End on(see kids, they used to be a separate tool we carried instead of being embedded in your arm!)and my wifes sketch book,where we map out ideas

a disc with the first Worddoc of my novel dated 10 years before the fourth edition was released, and a picture of me holding the biggest fish I ever caught!

Morris

Riley wrote: "(see kids, they used to be a separate tool we carried instead of being embedded in your arm!)..."

And here I am, old enough to still marvel that people can write stories on phones instead of just using them to call people.

The letter I'm going to receive from Dr. Phil when he finally answers my friends daily tweets about my book, with a cease and desist order. And my mug shot after my friends get me drunk and throw my unconscious body over the fence in front of his home thereby violating the subsequent restraining order.

Yeah. Those.

Dwayne wrote: "And here I am, old enough to still marvel that people can write stories on phones instead of just using them to call people..."

And I'm old enough to still have a phone on which you just call people. No, I ain't giving it up.

Well, maybe the Smithsonian can have that. And the two sticks I still use to start fires with. (Flint & steel is a kooky innovation, kids. It'll never catch on...)

Lol owen and kathi

1) They can have my (probably still incomplete) DIY modular synthesizer project: https://www.muffwiggler.com/forum/use...

2) A small plastic box (I think it once held my mouth guard for football) filled with silly mementos I picked up throughout my life, which includes:
* A pack of sugar with Richard Nixon's face on it (found it in a roadside diner in New Mexico or Arizona or someplace like that back in like 1972 while on a cross-country road trip with my family in a Dodge Sportsman van);
* A tiny scroll of thermal calculator tape from a mid-1980s Radio Shack calculator that let you print out calendars of the future. I printed every month from the date that I printed it up to the maximum date in the future allowed by the calculator...that date is well in the past now.
* Army insignia from my dad...a Captain's bar, a medical corps pin, etc.
* ... I forget what other junk is in there. I keep it not for sentimental reasons but just to kind of laugh at the silly stuff people might hold onto for sentimental reasons.

My wife does not understand me.

My batjew t-shirt, which I wear when I'm writing, and my loose leaf unbound copy of The Wind in the Willows, kept together with a rubber band, that goes wherever I go.

My beatup keyboard with the letters worn off.

My collection of photographs of food that has been tossed on the ground as well as a list of wild speculations as to why I was so obsessed with taking these pictures. And my collection of tech gadgets that I can never seem to part with, no matter how obsolete. This will also come with unconfirmed rumors that later in life, I would take them out, stroke each one lovingly, call it by name and wax nostalgic about the days of Palm OS and Android 2.1.

An empty bottle of Brooklyn Lager, a broken corkscrew and the royalties cheque I just got for $2.13.

lawl

Micah wrote: "* A pack of sugar with Richard Nixon's face on it (found it in a roadside diner in New Mexico or Arizona or someplace like that back in like 1972 ..."

I want one!

Mike wrote: "...and the royalties cheque I just got for $2.13."

I spent my first royalty payment on a Subway sandwich. Yes, I'm certainly not on the path to strike it rich with this anytime soon.

Dwayne wrote: "Micah wrote: "* A pack of sugar with Richard Nixon's face on it (found it in a roadside diner in New Mexico or Arizona or someplace like that back in like 1972 ..."

I want one!"

I cracked up when I saw it. All the sugar packs there were of American presidents. Nixon was in office at the time, of course, and a few years away from his resignation. Not a very popular man at the time. I grabbed it with a kind of perverse humor.

Dwayne, if you're not gathering this material for a novel, you should be :-)

my collection of abandoned notebooks

Jim wrote: "Dwayne, if you're not gathering this material for a novel, you should be :-)"

I have this weird feeling that Micah's Richard Nixon sugar packet will end up in a future story.

Dwayne wrote: "Jim wrote: "Dwayne, if you're not gathering this material for a novel, you should be :-)"

I have this weird feeling that Micah's Richard Nixon sugar packet will end up in a future story."

Maybe I should get a full inventory of the stuff in that little box for you. The sugar pack is the prize of the collection, no doubt.

Micah wrote: "Maybe I should get a full inventory of the stuff in that little box for you. The sugar pack is the prize of the collection, no doubt. "

It would be interesting, no doubt, but I "wrote" a story in my head in which the Nixon sugar packet will appear. Now to just get it on the computer... shouldn't take more than an hour or so - when I find an hour or so to work on it.

Micah wrote: "All the sugar packs there were of American presidents. Nixon was in office at the time, of course, and a few years away from his resignation. Not a very popular man at the time. I grabbed it with a kind of perverse humor."

Hey Micah, check this out:

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog...

Dwayne wrote: "
Hey Micah, check this out:

https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog..."

Coffee black FTW!

Dwayne wrote: "https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog... ... "

Okay. Next your gonna tell us the coffee was made from "aged" coffee beans (which are actually very expensive).

My faithful HP laptop (Reepicheep) on which I've written several books.

One of my outsize teacups that holds about a pint.

I'm thinking my purple pens that I do much of my writing with and maybe my favorite drinking glass. Or one of my many writing buddies, like my miniature William Shakespeare figurine.