Patrick explains why he chooses not to write for Star Wars.

[guest]

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I don't write for existing IP's, child. Except Tiny Tim.

"My agent has actively discouraged me from [writing.]"

 

[peckafacce]

What I'm *hearing* is his agent told him "Pat stop writing, you're wasting your time, no one is going to buy this crap"

 

[HotDogJoe]

Talking like he actually had the option to do it and turned it down. Delusional doesn't begin to cover it with this fucker.

 

[guest]

Talking like he actually had the option to do it and turned it down. Delusional doesn't begin to cover it with this fucker.

Imagine not having a book published for 4 years, nothing on the horizon, and your agent telling you not to write for Star Wars lol.

 

[wbgreen]

At that same GenCon, Pat would have been signing books next to a man who writes for Star Wars and Marvel. Hmmm, wonder who had a longer line of fans?

 

[BakersfieldChimp]

Pat would have been signing books

Not so.

 

[MonsterSteve]

Imagine not having a book published for 4 years, nothing on the horizon, and your agent telling you not to write for Star Wars lol.

Meanwhile Stephen King, who doesn't have to ever write a book again in his life, puts out 1 every year because he loves writing.

I wonder if Rick will ever get another job.

 

[AliceWorquer]

So Patrick told his agent he wanted to pitch for star wars and his agent convinced him not to bother because it was a waste of their time.

 

[MonsterSteve]

Imagine how much he would brag if he wrote even one thing for Star Wars. "I'm the head writer for Star Wars, child!!!".

 

[BoomerSperg]

Patrick would kill Bernell several times over to be half as well known as Timothy Zahn.

Pat, that's a reference to someone who became famous for writing star wars books.

 

[VizioDash]

The most egregious part of that is him saying "they'd be reading for Star Wars, not reading for Patrick Tomlinson."

No one is reading for Patrick Tomlinson, you fat retard. We've seen your sales.

 

[NoBacon]

As heinous as the writing for Star Wars is now, at least they don’t have firstname lastname doing her jedi training in a McDonald’s cantina.

 

[Milk74]

He looks so smelly and disgusting.

 

[Slackjawed Cow]

How humble of him to not write for something he was never considered for.

 

[stealthygeek]

Holy shit. Did he just say him writing a Star Wars book that made the NY Times best sellers list would be a problem for his career? Rick, worry about getting published ever again, not the downside of writing an actually popular book.

 

[IGotATreeOnMyHouse85]

In the early 90s the Simpsons had a “test” for writers applying for a staff writing job to write a “Marge Episode” to see if they were any good and some of those submissions became actual episodes and was how some writers were hired.

Pat doesn’t even try and thinks that’s something to brag about.

 

[866-Ron-0-Fez]

Why put in the work writing someone else's IP when you can just rip off Will Tate, Douglas Adams or whatever you watched on TV recently.

Cosmic Battles, it's like star Wars but in spaaaaace.

 

[Jenna]

He owns the rights to his IPs. So when Chili's comes calling "we'll give you a million dollars to feature Tyson Abington in our ads", all that money goes to Patrick.

 

[866-Ron-0-Fez]

In the early 90s the Simpsons had a “test” for writers applying for a staff writing job to write a “Marge Episode” to see if they were any good and some of those submissions became actual episodes and was how some writers were hired.

Pat doesn’t even try and thinks that’s something to brag about.

When the woman explains that she does write for a shared IP and that each writer can definitely 'put their own stamp on it'......Patrick says 'right'.

She's disagreeing with you dickhead. And she laughed at the mention of stlakers. Pat's gonna fake bomb threat the shit outta that poor woman.

 

[SFWA liaison]

one of his gay novels was also a Hitchhiker's Guide sequel until he changed all the names to mask it as an original universe, he's a derivative HACK

it's probably not false though, he probably told his agent "durrr I wanna write about Princess Leila and Chewbacca" and the dude is like "don't waste my fucking time fatso, they'll never hire you"