The beta test debuted late last summer with 200 Stanford students. She noticed the trend amongst the way Gen Z uses dating apps and has refocused the idea on a meme-based platform. Madhavan’s app is based on the belief that a shared sense of humor can bring people together. According to Tech Crunch, Schmooze is a “matchmaking app that combines machine learning and memes to connect people.” The founder, Vidya Madhavan says the app uses a “humor algorithm” that matches people based on their taste in memes.
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There are too many mediocre to bad, but monetarily VERY successful authors out there for the talent and perseverance factors to be a significant determining, uh determinator?! Sort of something like the now former governator of California! Reply Delete Out of the thousands, likely hundreds of thousands, of writers and self-published authors (like me) in the world, only a FEW are at the right place, at the right time, with the right person, and even THEN, success is not certain. Similar tales, with variations, are true for Tom Clancy and others.
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Well, that one took her on, and the rest, as they say is history.
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John Sebastian wrote a song in which there is a line that goes something like (not exactly, mind you) "there're 13,000 guitar pickers in Nashville, and ever one of 'em's just as better'n me." Well, the same is likely true of writers, painters, dancers, and, and, and so on ad infinitum.Īgatha Christie (THE most read author, ANY genre-save the Bible-on the planet) had tried every publisher she knew to try (and this was back in the day when writers could submit type-written, full of typos and misspellings manuscripts to publishers, not needing an agent!), with one left. Of course it helps a great deal if someone is good at what they do, but there are myriad someones who are good, in every artistic field. It is that way in ALL artistic endeavours. In the article above "luck" is credited with much of the success writers find in becoming successful authors, and I would go as far as to say MOST of their success is due to it. Jennings' next album came out about six months later than had been originally planned, with ALL NEW AND DIFFERENT MATERIAL-which did not include my two songs. In the shuffle and confusion plans for the next album got delayed, and then ditched. That had a spat, and Waylon picked up his toys and went home to set up his own studio. HOWEVER, he did not have his own sound studio at the time, but rather used that of Tompall Glaser, another once big name in country music. It was set up for him to do two of my songs on his next album. Suffice it to say that at one time he was THE name in country-western, and crossover music. For those who do not know who Waylon Jennings was, look him up in Google.
SMOOZE FLASH PROFESSIONAL
I used to be a professional entertainer (singer, musician, songwriter), and came VERY close to Waylon Jennings recording two of my songs.
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One has to be in a place where rubbing elbows with potential contacts who have anything to do with anything remotely associated with published writing is POSSIBLE. If there are any successfully published English-writing-and-speaking authors in the Philippines, I have yet to hear of it, and just knowing a name does precious little good. I say "tragically for some of us" because those like me-and I KNOW that I am not alone in my personal situation-expatriates from whatever "developed" country, living in essentially "third world" nations on a beggarly small, fixed income are in no position to do the traditional shoe-leather and travel things mentioned in "Getting an agent: Schmooze or you lose." I cannot afford to fly around the world to conferences and conventions, and there are NONE where I live. THE way the world works is "I'll scratch your back if you'll scratch mine," or the reverse. That is why "transparency" in government has caused so many problems, particularly in international diplomacy.
SMOOZE FLASH HOW TO
The above "take" on how to get published is, tragically for some of us, absolutely correct! Indeed, it is through relationships (not going to use that now worn-out, way-over-used term, "networking,") that ANYTHING gets done in this world.