Movie Reviews for Writers: Cold Ones

And therein lies K.C.’s problem. I’ve heard them called one-hit-wonders, just like the bands and performers who strike the charts once and never again. We’re led to believe K.C. is a one-hit-wonder as a novelist simply because he hasn’t put the effort into it and expects inspiration to find him, not the other way around. 

Regardless, when he gets to the tiny town in the mountains, word gets around that a published author is renting a place as fans he didn’t expect at all suddenly know who he is and one, Buddy, behaves like the so-called “your biggest fan” at a convention.

 After Buddy tells him how he liked the book and how never met a famous writer before, K.C. quickly corrects him. “You still haven’t. It was just the one novel.” Still gaga, Buddy responds, “I know. I read it.”

 Of course, as a number one fan, Buddy is a writer himself. “I do a bit of writing myself. Mostly poetry,” he confesses.

 After a few days, Buddy has a plan to capitalize on K.C. connections:

 Buddy: “So what I was thinking, I’d feed you a couple of stories a day, and you know, you like my stories. You said as much. And then when you figure there’s like a book’s worth of them you, you sit down and write a book.”

 K.C.: “Well, Buddy, I don’t generally work like that. That’s not how I wrote my book.”

 Buddy: “Well now, hey, I would insist that your name come first on the dust jacket. And I figure like a straight down the middle 50/50 split would be the fairest way to go. Movie sales, the whole deal. Or maybe 55/45, you know, since your the more established writer and everything.”

 After Buddy leaves, K.C. mutters under his breath: “Yeah, just write ’em up and we’ll get rich.”

 Sometimes talking to non-writers about what we do is difficult. There are so many misunderstandings about the writing life.

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