Slightly stumped again.

[Asbo Zaprudder]

1420.4 MHz

 

[Shatnertage]

I don't know what to have for dinner tonight...I may have one thing, or I may have another. The first thing isn't really my favorite, but the second isn't that bad.

Which should I choose?

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

I'd choose stuff, as long as you didn't copy it from one of CheapJack's projects.

It sounds like he has some sort of public-service office job, where he and the rest of the staff spend their time working on their own hobbies, and becoming increasingly paranoid that everyone else is stealing their ideas. I do hope I'm not one of the rate payers funding this setup.

 

[Captain_Nick]

That sounds like a job not to dissimilar to mine.

Let the good times roll Cheapjack

 

[kes7]

If you believe they put a man on the Moon...

As to how your projects are leaking, I suspect "they" are hiding in your walls and tapping into your brain waves. I recommend the immediate purchase of a tin-foil helmet.

Shiny side OUT. This is very important.

 

[Nowhere Man]

I don't know what to have for dinner tonight...I may have one thing, or I may have another. The first thing isn't really my favorite, but the second isn't that bad.

Which should I choose?

The other one that comes with that stuff. Don't for get your dohickey.

 

[Cheapjack]

What hasn't happened yet?

You haven't had a project leaked before you finish it, obviously. And had a supervisor who doesn't want anyone taking the attention away from them and who is jealous of you. And,thinks you have an unfair advantage, cos you've read about twelve Bob Silverberg books. Amongst others. And, thinks you're a snob, cos you won't let the rest of the office treat you like s***. Though, he's in and out quick.

Good. And, there's even less chance of it happening, now.

 

[Australis]

Actually, I think if it was you people who were looking over my shoulder, you would clap me on the back.

My problem is, I only do enough to stay in the job, maybe 20% extra, based on the fact iI read about three pulp SF books a week, till I was 19, which really pisses some off, cos they were reading one, which one I don't know. I don't do the exxtra bit to get the job finished.

But, I will.

Jesus, dude.

I was reading seven books a week when I was a teen.

I think I told you last time about the script I wrote and turned in two weeks before it was announced a completely different company announced they were alrteady doing exactly the same (historical) story from a slightly different perspective. It's called simultaneous creation and it happens all the time. The only way to beat it is to do it first.

Just get your arse into gear, stop whining and finish something.

And it won't kill you to talk about your ideas here, we ALL have our own. And they're better than yours anyway.

Well, that's what we think anyway.

Oh, and the project that was "copied and lost"? Well, no one's doing it now. Get it back and get it on track. Or wonder why it was dropped and lost - maybe not so good an idea.

 

[JarodRussell]

I don't get it. You've been a hobby writer for 20 years? And your ideas get stolen all the time? And you have a jealous supervisor (in your real job, I assume)? Jealous of what?

And what ideas have been stolen, have we already seen those anywhere?

 

[Cheapjack]

I'm just a sad little nobody, really.



I just wondered, that this was a common problem, but I don't think it is.

Which is good.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

I'm just a sad little nobody, really.



I just wondered, that this was a common problem, but I don't think it is.

Which is good.

Here's the thing -- we're all insignificant in the greater scheme of things. The universe couldn't give a flying fuck whether any or all of us exist or not. So cheer up...

The problem I'm having is understanding your problem -- at all. I can't work out whether you're being paid to write poems/scripts/stories/whatever as part of your day job or whether you're abusing your employers by working on your own stuff/projects instead of doing what you're actually being paid to do.

 

[RoJoHen]

I don't get it. You've been a hobby writer for 20 years? And your ideas get stolen all the time? And you have a jealous supervisor (in your real job, I assume)? Jealous of what?

And what ideas have been stolen, have we already seen those anywhere?

This is what I don't understand either.

He's a writer, fine, and he hopes to get published one day. What I don't understand is his workplace. Where is he working that his ideas are being stolen by other people? Is there an office of writer-hopefuls that I don't know about? How do you get paid?

"I want to be a writer one day, but people keep stealing my ideas" is not a profession. We know what you want to do, but do you actually do FOR A LIVING?

 

[Mr Silver]

We know what you want to do, but do you actually do FOR A LIVING?

It would actually be amazing if he worked in a Patent Office and stole other peoples ideas, hence the paranoia

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

From other threads, he seems to have some sort of IT role, but all the pieces don't add up to any sort of coherent picture.

 

[Nowhere Man]

Actually, I think if it was you people who were looking over my shoulder, you would clap me on the back.

My problem is, I only do enough to stay in the job, maybe 20% extra, based on the fact iI read about three pulp SF books a week, till I was 19, which really pisses some off, cos they were reading one, which one I don't know. I don't do the exxtra bit to get the job finished.

But, I will.

Jesus, dude.

I was reading seven books a week when I was a teen.

I think I told you last time about the script I wrote and turned in two weeks before it was announced a completely different company announced they were alrteady doing exactly the same (historical) story from a slightly different perspective. It's called simultaneous creation and it happens all the time. The only way to beat it is to do it first.

Just get your arse into gear, stop whining and finish something.

And it won't kill you to talk about your ideas here, we ALL have our own. And they're better than yours anyway.

Well, that's what we think anyway.

Oh, and the project that was "copied and lost"? Well, no one's doing it now. Get it back and get it on track. Or wonder why it was dropped and lost - maybe not so good an idea.

I don't get it. You've been a hobby writer for 20 years? And your ideas get stolen all the time? And you have a jealous supervisor (in your real job, I assume)? Jealous of what?

And what ideas have been stolen, have we already seen those anywhere?

I'm just a sad little nobody, really.



I just wondered, that this was a common problem, but I don't think it is.

Which is good.

I'm just a sad little nobody, really.



I just wondered, that this was a common problem, but I don't think it is.

Which is good.

Here's the thing -- we're all insignificant in the greater scheme of things. The universe couldn't give a flying fuck whether any or all of us exist or not. So cheer up...

The problem I'm having is understanding your problem -- at all. I can't work out whether you're being paid to write poems/scripts/stories/whatever as part of your day job or whether you're abusing your employers by working on your own stuff/projects instead of doing what you're actually being paid to do.

I don't get it. You've been a hobby writer for 20 years? And your ideas get stolen all the time? And you have a jealous supervisor (in your real job, I assume)? Jealous of what?

And what ideas have been stolen, have we already seen those anywhere?

This is what I don't understand either.

He's a writer, fine, and he hopes to get published one day. What I don't understand is his workplace. Where is he working that his ideas are being stolen by other people? Is there an office of writer-hopefuls that I don't know about? How do you get paid?

"I want to be a writer one day, but people keep stealing my ideas" is not a profession. We know what you want to do, but do you actually do FOR A LIVING?

We know what you want to do, but do you actually do FOR A LIVING?

It would actually be amazing if he worked in a Patent Office and stole other peoples ideas, hence the paranoia

From other threads, he seems to have some sort of IT role, but all the pieces don't add up to any sort of coherent picture.

Ditto.

 

[Balrog]

Judgijng by the impressed looks I have had from those who have seen them, I don't think my half done stufff is all that bad.

Ok, so by "those who have seen", you mean "no one here".

Just want to clarify. (For you, that is)