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Ok, so if there was something that you knew you could do successfully, what would it be?

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Broadway Singer. Seriously.
Ethel Merman, you go girl.
Or just generally being able to make a living acting on stage. I'm in drama, but to have a guaranteed spot in the future would obviously make a things a lot easier.

I think I misunderstood the thread. I read it as "If there's something you know that you could do correctly" but I'm beginning to suspect that that's not it.

Porn star.

Novelist. Currently working on it in my spare time.

Other than that, superhero.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Novelist. Currently working on it in my spare time.
Being a writer myself, I'm curious.

Play in the NBA.

Secondly would be to have a guaranteed career in Theatre that pays the bills enough that I don't have to worry about the money aspect. I want to play Septimus from Tom Stoppard's Arcadia at Drury Lane theatre. Is that too much to ask?

Originally posted by Astner
Being a writer myself, I'm curious.

I love stories so when I turned twenty I decided to write a book. There was a news article where Stephen King said he wrote ten pages a day. That's enough to write twelve or so typical length novels or twenty four that come in very close to 50k words.

It also means that you can easily write a book in a year if you can make one page of progress a day.

So that's what I do. I set myself a minimum of one page each day with no roll over into the next day and not including editing unless it makes the page longer. A page here meaning 32 lines and about 350 words.

I've ended up with a series of monster hunter style novellas (~100 pages along side ~50 or ~20 page intercalary short stories filling in background) and a space opera novel about stories/myths (where I ended up discarding half the text when I switched framing devices). All still in progress.

It's a lot of fun, I think, and I pay far more attention when I read books now.

Originally posted by Astner
I think I misunderstood the thread. I read it as "If there's something you know that you could do correctly" but I'm beginning to suspect that that's not it.

the question would read better like this: If you could not fail what would you do?

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
I love stories so when I turned twenty I decided to write a book. There was a news article where Stephen King said he wrote ten pages a day. That's enough to write twelve or so typical length novels or twenty four that come in very close to 50k words.

It also means that you can easily write a book in a year if you can make one page of progress a day.

So that's what I do. I set myself a minimum of one page each day with no roll over into the next day and not including editing unless it makes the page longer. A page here meaning 32 lines and about 350 words.

I've ended up with a series of monster hunter style novellas (~100 pages along side ~50 or ~20 page intercalary short stories filling in background) and a space opera novel about stories/myths (where I ended up discarding half the text when I switched framing devices). All still in progress.

It's a lot of fun, I think, and I pay far more attention when I read books now.
pfft, that's nothing. Philip K. Dick wrote 68 pages a day!

Well earlier this year I believed I could finish a half marathon so I signed up for the 2011 San francisco one... I'll tell you later if I do finish it.

If you speak of the true hypotheticals...
Be a card counter and go win some big bucks like those MIT students.. pay off my parents debt for them ... then never gamble again due to my notoriety.

Originally posted by Stoic
Ok, so if there was something that you knew you could do successfully, what would it be?

Be a cage-fighter in the UFC (and Pride, before it went under).

If I could turn back the clock to the mid-90's, I would honestly shoot for that career course.

Fly

To speak Arabic and Chinese immaculately, without any hint of foreign accent.

On a serious note, I'd be a damn good stand up comedian.

I have a lot of material written and all of my friends laugh like hyenas at my jokes.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Novelist. These days I find short stories much less of a time/energy investment and easier to get published (after amassing, of course, the usual, perfunctory mountain of rejection slips).

Other than that, superhero. I'm still waiting for cosmos-wandering godtech to find and transform me. I may have to settle for embryonic mystic.


Failing any of the above: stand-up comic (I have an unfailing joke with my last name; unfortunately, I'm stumped after that).

A writer. I've written several series/novels, but never published one. The one I'm currently working on will be my first published book.

Probably some kind of writer. I've thought I would be great at commercial writing. I have been told that I have great ideas. I think outside the box.

I'm kind of an idea person. I'm not sure what kind of title that would be. An Idea person??

Originally posted by Deja~vu
Probably some kind of writer. I've thought I would be great at commercial writing. I have been told that I have great ideas. I think outside the box.

I'm kind of an idea person. I'm not sure what kind of title that would be. An Idea person??

That position would be "Marketing Director." Seriously, if you have enough good, creative, and original ideas, you are wanted desperately in that field.

Originally posted by siriuswriter
That position would be "Marketing Director." Seriously, if you have enough good, creative, and original ideas, you are wanted desperately in that field.

You could be like Darren from Bewitched!

A concept artist for games, books and films.

Bumping this thread.

Hitman for the CIA

Seriously.

Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
Hitman for the CIA

Seriously.

hysterical

Well this could happen because I am on the pre-medical track, but be the best ENT surgeon at some notable hospital.

And a writer

Part time Actor and Film Director, would also like to dabble in rock music.. I often think about what I would like to do if I was a millionaire and I did not need to think/worry about money, in that respect I'd add part-time Auto Mechanic to the list.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
You could be like Darren from Bewitched!

I was thinking a little bit more like Don Draper from Mad Men - minus all the bad karma.

Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
Hitman for the CIA

Seriously. THe seriously part is what gets me. Originally posted by -Pr-
hysterical

I would say writer, but I'm already doing that.

So...woodcarver.