tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307761.post922558350013750935..comments2023-04-26T17:27:01.571+08:00Comments on To the Tale, and Other Such Concerns: About the AuthorSeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03300224368246428017noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307761.post-25775204868057062792008-10-15T23:06:00.000+08:002008-10-15T23:06:00.000+08:00Banzai Cat: Dean would probably send us the bill. ...Banzai Cat: Dean would probably send us the bill. :) I bet his ears are burning right now.Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03300224368246428017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307761.post-77421307204546263532008-10-15T13:04:00.000+08:002008-10-15T13:04:00.000+08:00@dom: Hell, writing in the 3rd person is fine. Tal...@dom: Hell, writing in the 3rd person is fine. Talking in the 3rd person is scary for the person next to you. :-D<BR/><BR/>And the 4th person reference is so... Third Policeman. ;-)<BR/><BR/>@sean: I guess I dislike talking about myself and would rather let my story speak for itself. Which is ironic given how writing is purely an ego game. :-D<BR/><BR/>You know, let's suggest to Dean to set up a buffet table at the launch, make this official. :-Dbanzai cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11163422172627686782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307761.post-8483088172958564352008-10-14T02:17:00.000+08:002008-10-14T02:17:00.000+08:00Ida: Hah... I remember reading that. It's actually...<B>Ida:</B> Hah... I remember reading that. It's actually a revised version of his bio, the original version of which said that he was working an office job until he realized that he was making more money in writing. <BR/><BR/>Sadly, I can't ask for readers to send me stuff, if only because I'd ask for something utterly strange. I suspect that Pratchett really does like banana daiquiris, though, whether or not his Librarian of Unseen University exists or otherwise.Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03300224368246428017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307761.post-91291349626874634242008-10-14T00:09:00.000+08:002008-10-14T00:09:00.000+08:00BTW, congratulations! :)BTW, congratulations! :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307761.post-30398764419939830142008-10-14T00:07:00.000+08:002008-10-14T00:07:00.000+08:00The nicest one I've seen so far is by Terry Pratch...The nicest one I've seen so far is by Terry Pratchett in Good Omens. Here's an excerpt:<BR/><BR/><I> He chose journalism as a career because it was indoor work with no heavy lifting. He's managed to avoid all the really interesting jobs authors take in order to look good in this sort of biography.</I><BR/><BR/>He also mentioned something about wanting fans to send him banana daiquiris. Maybe you can do the same next time? ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307761.post-67967040316901306042008-10-13T23:09:00.000+08:002008-10-13T23:09:00.000+08:00Banzai Cat: I don't think that that's strange. I f...<B>Banzai Cat:</B> I don't think that that's strange. I find that writing a bio is like disconnecting a little bit of your personality from its source, yet not so much that you give the whole thing away. The problem is that we end up making them so vague that people can jump to any number of conclusions about us -- I've been referred to as a "physicist" once -- that we might as well be promoting our own dual identities.<BR/><BR/>And darn it, don't mention <I>The Exorcist</I> while we're at the buffet table. That's pea soup in the big brass tureen right there.<BR/><BR/><B>Dominique:</B> With our luck, the fourth writer is probably somebody who would overshadow all three of us put together (and beat us in a fettuccine-filled cage match). Like maybe Alan Moore.Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03300224368246428017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307761.post-53810604404593466102008-10-13T21:27:00.000+08:002008-10-13T21:27:00.000+08:00Hey, hey, looks like the gang is here. I wonder w...Hey, hey, looks like the gang is here. I wonder who the fourth person is.<BR/><BR/>@Sean: I don't think what I do now is particularly interesting but I suppose it comes from my self-deprecatory nature.<BR/><BR/>@BC: yeah, there's that thing about writing about yourself in the third person. For some people, though, it just comes naturally ;-)Dom Cimafrancahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02060486314112462681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307761.post-27409451386564765562008-10-13T09:54:00.000+08:002008-10-13T09:54:00.000+08:00I see we're all here at the buffet table again. ;-...I see we're all here at the buffet table again. ;-)<BR/><BR/>Personally, I have this odd bit of possession wherein something in me wants to go exorcist-girl in the bio. Then I just beat it back down and tell something that's informative without really saying something. I know, I can't help but feel schizo about the whole concepts of bios.banzai cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11163422172627686782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307761.post-9273737110598642522008-10-12T23:39:00.000+08:002008-10-12T23:39:00.000+08:00Dominique: I suspected that, actually. It's good t...Dominique: I suspected that, actually. It's good to see that we just might be going into the same issue.<BR/><BR/>Must I point out that what you do is <I>interesting</I>? I mean, I can't just tell people that I'm a systems analyst at some multinational company. That would be a little boring, I think... and it would get the company watching me closely. :)Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03300224368246428017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8307761.post-55118290929059939072008-10-12T21:41:00.000+08:002008-10-12T21:41:00.000+08:00Congratulations on the story, Sean. If it's for t...Congratulations on the story, Sean. If it's for the issue that I think it is, I think we'll be sharing space.<BR/><BR/>I always have trouble with the writer's bio, too. I just go for the most straightforward introduction possible, which centers around what I do.Dom Cimafrancahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02060486314112462681noreply@blogger.com