As a wannabe fiction writer

[Mme. Defarge]

(in my case it's a cheap hobby) I'm discouraged, because as far as the news goes, you just can't make this merde up.

[sofa king]

1. Tell me about it.

I just had to cut a novella down to a novelette because my narcissistic President who tries to destroy the world with the Doomsday machine out of spite... is currently running for President. It was absurdist dark comedy in the first draft in 2014. Now it's not funny at all.

Donald Trump cost me thirteen cents per copy in royalties.

[Mme. Defarge]

2. That is a sad story indeed!

n/t

[Daemonaquila]

7. See?

There goes Don the Con wrecking another worker's income.

[sofa king]

10. Yep.

It's the smallest possible microcosm of what's going to happen to all Americans if he gets close enough to steal it.

[sofa king]

3. Eh...

I've still made three and a half bucks on it, all "profit."

[nolabear]

4. As a fiction writer I wouldn't touch this stuff with a ten foot pole.

It's everything fiction shouldn't be. It's a soulless, non-reflective, shallow, short-attention-spanned, deus ex machina screed.

Of course Ayn Rand had no trouble with it. Who knew her horrid little philosophical world would become so real it can no longer be fiction?

[Mme. Defarge]

5. I'm proud to say

that I read Ayn Rand at an impressionable age and was not impressed.

[Daemonaquila]

6. You couldn't write it.

If you did, you'd be accused of writing over the top satire.

[brooklynite]

8. Perhaps you could try alternative history fiction...

"A thoughtful, compassionate businessman runs for President to unify the nation, and his eloquent speaking style rockets him into the lead".

[Mme. Defarge]

11. Good

one sentence summary!

[tblue37]

9. Comedians and political cartoonists love this stuuf on the one hand, because

their material writes itself, but on the other hand, they fret that they are not really needed, since the material writes itself.