Re: Riding after heavy manual labor

On 5/21/2024 12:16 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

On Tue, 21 May 2024 11:15:23 -0400, Frank Krygowski
<frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
 

On 5/21/2024 4:27 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:

My books are simply take it or leave
it. The stuff I've posted here is nothing more than verifying that I > do write, something that Krygowski asked for.

>
If those are indeed your books, the overwhelming reaction as been to
"leave it" rather than "take it."

 You're entitled that opinion. I see no reason to argue with you about
it.
 

At minimum, an author's desire is to
have someone read what they've written.

 Nope ..  You assume that because you simply can't imagine someone
doing such a thing for their own enjoyment rather than doing it to get
acceptance and admiration.

Sorry, that makes no sense. If you wrote _only_ for your own enjoyment, you wouldn't have taken the trouble to self-publish your books.
Note that many people do write just for themselves - often in the form of diaries or journals. Or in the poetry world, there's the famous Emily Dickinson, who wrote many hundreds of now-revered poems with no thought of publishing more than a few.
It seems very likely that you self-published hoping for acceptance or adulation. When your books failed to sell, as they obviously did, you told yourself, and then us, that you don't care. It's a literally unbelievable rationalization of your failure.

But you haven't shown those are your books. You've already said the
authors' names do not match yours.

 See my picture on the back cover of this book.
https://www.amazon.com/Bank-Robbery-John-Sailorman-Parker/dp/1983034495?ref_=ast_author_dp&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.jP3RWZgoFPyhuVYXrD1A3NShJvEuhJ6sUcNSwmyZ53l0nWXXvuqjdhOMeOzya-_TrUmU1q5SUyvr_SNaIRYzgOLt2NK7JXggMSm8YMfYvMXLwg5HM2wlJjXk34LttAPcwyID4xvRNuPwUynQU2lTJQ.pHsDUGanWxcQKczt06-dD-I2N4tOWD9LmQF-uULUOZg&dib_tag=AUTHOR

Gosh, such bragging! But still, we don't know that was based on truth. As I recall, you once said something like "Claims of having done something are not documentation." We don't even know that you wrote that little bio, or that the photo is really you.
As I said, I'm just noting that you fail to meet your own standards. But if your claims do turn out to be true, they show only that you're a failed self-published author.
Perhaps you should follow Emily's example. Write _only_ for your own enjoyment. Maybe you'll get lucky as she did, and actually get published after you die.
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- Frank Krygowski