Comments on View from the Cloud: 10 Questions with Rob (Diesel) Kroese

I armageddon the idea Diesel is Hollywood bound!

2009-11-12T21:50:06.102-06:00

I armageddon the idea Diesel is Hollywood bound!

Nice interview, Jeff! Maybe you should do more. Yo...

2009-11-12T14:23:06.196-06:00

Nice interview, Jeff! Maybe you should do more. You never know what bloggers might suddenly become famous.

And thank god I finally know how to pronounce "Kroese." That was bugging me.

Nah...my first novel is only through one full revi...

2009-11-11T21:39:43.213-06:00

Nah...my first novel is only through one full revision. It's in the stage they call "sitting in a drawer" where you await for it to be fresh enough again to tackle the next rewrite. I gave it to four people to read and have feedback awaiting that time period.

I'm sympathetic to Diesel's cause because I'm following the same path behind him; albiet slower and later. Still, it's all in the story and the writing craft. Great work finds it's way to print...

Aw, great interview Jeff! I was particularly glad ...

2009-11-11T10:31:57.142-06:00

Aw, great interview Jeff! I was particularly glad to finally have closure on that whole house renovation thread he left us hanging with over at MP.

Oh crap. I still have to get my copy to go with his other book I bought.

sounds great...i have it next to my bed but have y...

2009-11-10T09:59:50.772-06:00

sounds great...i have it next to my bed but have yet to stop working early enough in the evening to start reading. what i need is a flight somewhere!

Very cool... and as a fan of snark, now I have ano...

2009-11-09T21:07:37.569-06:00

Very cool... and as a fan of snark, now I have another book to add to my to read list. What do you suppose the odds are that I can convince my library to buy some copies? ;)

sage - Thanks for following the yellow brick link....

2009-11-09T18:13:53.342-06:00

sage - Thanks for following the yellow brick link. I think too much mercury in Diesel's system would explain a lot actually.

ve - Wait... am I supposed to know about your 1st novel? Cause I don't remember seeing it being promoted or for sale. Or has it just not been published yet.

kathy - Those are good questions. I was wondering the same things.

diesel - "...whenever I had a slow period..."

Now hold on... I've been following you since you started this project and during that time you were rebuilding your house, traveling back and forth between Ripon and Mountain View on a regular basis and putting in a sprinkler system. When did you ever have a "slow period?"

Hi Kathy! I have no idea where I found the time. ...

2009-11-09T18:04:44.022-06:00

Hi Kathy!

I have no idea where I found the time. I tend to write in spurts, and whenever I had a slow period at work (and all my other projects), I would just write like crazy. As for motivation, I actually owe a lot to people like you and Jeff, who kept encouraging me to write by commenting on Mattress Police and sending me nice emails. I knew that there were people out there who were genuinely interested in what I had to say, and that really kept me going.

Great interview, and congrats on the book Diesel. ...

2009-11-09T16:27:53.750-06:00

Great interview, and congrats on the book Diesel. I know now for a fact I will never be able to do this. Can I ask where you found the time? And how did you handle the times you weren't motivated to write?

Sage - Say what you want about Latvian dentists; t...

2009-11-09T12:13:58.976-06:00

Sage - Say what you want about Latvian dentists; they don't skimp on the anasthesia.

VE - I went through a LOT of revisions, and I got feedback from several writers I know. You really want it to be as good as you can possibly make it before sending it to agents/editors. And evidently my book STILL wasn't good enough for their tastes. I'm going to be doing an interview with Mark Rayner from The Swib soon; we'll be talking about some of these issues over there. Watch my blog or the MF Facebook page for details....

Excellent interview. Having written my own novel ...

2009-11-09T10:57:07.263-06:00

Excellent interview. Having written my own novel and halfway through my second, I have some questions for Diesel too (if he's monitoring the comments here)...

How many revisions did you go through before you started to contact agents and editors? What was your process from initial draft to finished manuscript?

I followed the facebook link over--great interview...

2009-11-09T10:19:55.419-06:00

I followed the facebook link over--great interview!

Rob said: "There's a lot of Mercury in me." He really should check out another dentist!

Thanks, Jeff. I'm glad I didn't have to me...

2009-11-09T09:55:08.361-06:00

Thanks, Jeff. I'm glad I didn't have to mess you up. In a non-threatening way. :)

rick - "Interesting" is a very polite wa...

2009-11-09T09:49:39.472-06:00

rick - "Interesting" is a very polite way of saying he's basically nuts, but in a non-threatening kind of way.

diesel - Sorry about that font malfunction. Blogger did that by itself and I didn't catch it, so now I overrode it and made the link HUGE. And thank YOU for doing the interview. I enjoyed it as well.

Thanks, Jeff! I enjoyed doing the interview. One t...

2009-11-09T09:38:59.112-06:00

Thanks, Jeff! I enjoyed doing the interview. One thing though: is there any way you can make the link to buy my book smaller? I'm thinking it should basically look like a dotted line that doesn't really even resemble text. Thanks! ;)

Rick - Thanks! In case people want to know what you're talking about, the link to that video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VdlWfbSurk. And the Florida series starts here: http://mattresspolice.com/default.aspx/The-Sunshine-State-(Part-1)?PostID=514.

As a fan of Diesel's blog "Mattress Polic...

2009-11-09T07:52:03.359-06:00

As a fan of Diesel's blog "Mattress Police" I was going to recommend that people check out "My First Video Blog" there, which totally cracked me up. But for some reason I can't get the video to work. I also liked his four part series about being a kid in Florida, which starts with "The Sunshine State". Definitely an interesting guy.