Are You 'Published' ?

[CountDeMoney]

Take a number then, I'm still serving Mom and Dad.

[Siege]

I started writing 3 diferent sci-fi/alt-hist novels.
Never got past page 1.

So I'm still a literary virgin.

[Slargos]

I am indeed a published author. 

Of course, the publishment of my texts is limited to the "say your piece" pages in the local newspaper, but you didn't specify... 

[Slargos]

Cop out.

ZOMG THAT WAY YOU DOAN HAFFTA WORRY ABOUT TEH FAILURES

Here, let me translate it for you in terms you can understand: it's nobody's fucking business what I write.

What you want to make us believe: It's slash-porn.

What we really believe: It's romantic poetry (of the gay variety).

[Josquius]

I can never write anything longer than a novella.
And I'm crap at writing.
So no.

[grumbler]

The be "published" is generally thought to mean one has been paid for one's work or had it accepted in an academic journal.  Self-publishing, publishing in a fan journal, and the like isn't really being "published."

I have been both published and blurbed. 

[Eddie Teach]

I started writing 3 diferent sci-fi/alt-hist novels.
Never got past page 1.

So I'm still a literary virgin.

Judas Maccabeus picked up his M16 and pointed it at the Roman's chest. "Say shalom to my little friend" he proclaimed as he dispatched the man to Sheol.

[The Brain]

 

[Martim Silva]

I've got plenty of articles and some columns written for financial newspapers.

But never got around to write a book. I really should do it, though - it has been called to my attention that the lack of published works refects badly on my resumé.

It is also bad that I have a degree by a Portuguese University (U. Católica). When I'm at dinners abroad, all the others start speaking on how they went to Yale and Oxford, Cambridge, etc, and I say an University that, while the best in Portugal, is almost unknown abroad. My portuguese colleages help here, but it is simply *not enough* to offset the prestige hit I get on that area.

[jamesww]

We expect more from you than crazy ass dwm.

This.

[CountDeMoney]

"Say shalom to my little friend"

I LOL'd.

[grumbler]

But never got around to write a book. I really should do it, though - it has been called to my attention that the lack of published works refects badly on my resumé.

It is worse than that; before my second book hit the New York Times Bestseller List, I was concerned for my resume as well, but once you have a couple of best-sellers you realize you don't ever need to worry about a resume again.  So I'd get cracking if I were you.  Your local ambassador can be a big help.

[jamesww]

The be "published" is generally thought to mean one has been paid for one's work or had it accepted in an academic journal.  Self-publishing, publishing in a fan journal, and the like isn't really being "published."

I have been both published and blurbed. 

So tweets don't count ? 

[Barrister]

It used to be that as a lawyer you wanted to be in a "reported decision".  However with the internet changing the way cases are reported that has become almost trivial, and I am in a few dozen reported decisions in Alberta and Yukon, many with no precedential value.

At age 10 or so I had a Mother's Day poem published in the local newspaper, but I'll take no particular credit for that either.

I was once quoted in the Globe and Mail, and I had a few appearances in the local Winnipeg evening news commenting on this, that and the other thing (someone had my name as a local Reform Party spokesperson, back before we had any MPs).

I did "streeters" for another local newspaper for many years - all but one uncredited.  I did a special full-page streeter asking about the newspaper redesign, which I asked and WAS given credit for.  Technically this isn't writing, as it's only quotes - but if you heard how people actually talk, you'd realize it takes a lot of writing to takes people thoughts and words to turn them into coherent sentences.

I've thought about writing for an academic journal.  But Canada isn't the US - law reviews are not particularly respected.  So I'm sure I could get published, but I'm not sure I'd care enough to.

[merithyn]

I've had my byline on something like 75-ish published articles, though most of them were no more than 150-250 words. That being said, I've had a large spread feature article in the Chicago Tribune, several feature items in the Daily Herald and the Sun-Times, and I've ghost-written three books.

As an editor, I've been involved in three fiction books being published, numerous newspaper and magazine articles, and a number of grant proposals.

I have never published any of my fiction.