What are you doing right now?

[EndOfTheEarth]

Besides posting on here and replying to this thread. Original credit for this goes back to Fate and Nathan on MX.

[EndOfTheEarth]

Why should he? He has six other series that do that for him. I don't know if clipping MR would affect much; he's already established himself with his new target audience who will now, ideally, follow his two fresher series and bring in a profit. That's mainly why I think he dragged the series out beyond book 3: he wanted to get W&W and DX firmly established so as to keep the audience attention. Now that he has two other series, one of which is only two books in, the other no more than three, he can push on with those two while he establishes another in the background.

 

We've gone from predicting plot to predicting marketing strategy...that's an odd twist.

[Lamp Post]

What'll he do when he's done with those, though?  For the younger group he really only has the three series, and DX can't possibly go on much longer.  I tried reading the first one, beyond years ago, so I don't know much about a continuous plot, but he won't be able to keep it forever.  And I can't imagine W&W will get 4 more years of books, either.  I mean, forbid he think of another overdone and cliche idea, he might need something else to fill the time and get more publicity to draw back to him for another series.

[EndOfTheEarth]

He can keep it up two more years. That would be long enough to rotate out MR, and rotate in something else, which will be up and running for a good year before DX gets rotated out, with W&W as a fallback option. Besides, none of us could have seen more than three years out of MR at the end of STWAOES, and yet he found a good Go Green piece and a good piece of filler to throw in while he developed another 3-book plot arc.

 

As for what's next? Well, so far we have

Mutants

Aliens

Magic

 

What's left? Zombies, wilderness survival, Middle-ages stuff, teens in space... there's plenty of room for an overdone cliche story.

[Lamp Post]

By SWATOES and the announcement that he would continue it, it'd already felt like it would never end.  I'll honestly be surprised if he dies without having continued anything with the series, at all, or sold the rights to let someone else do so.

 

But meh, as the list goes on each require less and less research and whatnot and become more far fetched.  So . . . it won't be anything requiring research and whatnot.  He might be better off with a reg. HS story, really.  Then throw in mythology. >.>

 

[EndOfTheEarth]

Really? By the time I was done with book 3 and saw the commercial for book four, I was pretty shocked that there was anything more to say (then again, I didn't really know Patterson)

 

Patterson is trying just that with his middle school story...think it's a test project?

[Lamp Post]

Meh, I remember the 'If we get to 5million clicks he'll continue the series.' thing from . . . . well before SWATOES was released.  So. . . .*knew it was coming*

 

 

[EndOfTheEarth]

*headdesk*

I'd forgotten about that. Good catch, my abilities to recall those sorts of things is dropping X(

[Lamp Post]

*offers tea*

You're just getting old.  And that was, what. . . ?  4 years ago now?  Or more?  It was on MR.

 

And maybe the 5mil was for something else.  Regardless there was a clicking thing. . . . 

[Hannah]

Spent hours today downloading different editing softwares and video converters. Only to realize I'm an idiot who can't manage to specify an output location.

Thursday numero uno is a go.

[EndOfTheEarth]

In what, profit?

[Brandybuck]

Eh...  I didn't really love Inception that much.  Well, I mean I enjoyed it compared to the other huge budget films 2010 had to offer.  I mean, after The Last Airbender, Robinhood, and *shudders* Avatar, it was pretty much a masterpiece.  But in terms of plot... let's just say I expected more from the trailers.

 

Not to imply that Eclipse deserved to win.

[EndOfTheEarth]

Black Swan had a good plot, but as was mentioned, it didn't get the popular vote.

 

Inception really didn't have much of a plot, just a mechanic. The rest of the plot was alarmingly simple, once you learn to keep track of where everything is.