<![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard! - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard! - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> Exactly!

Sargasm

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> Choire, you'll make someone a great Jewish mother someday.

yourfriendandneighbor

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> Annals of the Former World rocks! heh. And as for "Ordovician," please go to Woot.com now.

irishbreakfast

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> 25,000 words is a novel? @Michael Jahn: Don't forget watching all 7 seasons of Buffy during the 'breaks'.

Rebellitor

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> nina katchadourian made me love stacking books into poems. sigh.

dotorg greg

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> john mcphee made me love geology.

kshenkshen

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> You know what also sucks? Writing hack articles and blog entries and then attempting to write something good.

bananappeal

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> @Choire: Indeed, what would be the point of working between Christmas and New Year's if you couldn't get wasted at the same time? No pro blogger is sober this week.

raincoaster

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> @LolCait: You need to purchase shame? I generally get mine for free.

Chatteringclass

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> @crookedlawyer: Don't have any TV on but football when you write. With football you only have to look over when the ball is snapped or else you can catch the instant replay.

Michael Jahn

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> I made the mistake of paying for an "AvantGuild" membership. I noticed that now they automatically include a subscription to WIRED--because nobody fucking reads it. I canceled my subscription and got $8, which is still worth more than a year of WIRED.

aisatsana

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> This clown should feel reassured that most of his few dozen readers will also struggle to get past the 25,000 word mark.

TheBigDoggy

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> @LolCait: @TedSez: For 100,000 boa bucks, Laurel Touby will personally perform an exploratory laparotomy on you using just the items in her top desk drawer.

lawyergay

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> Please tell me he doesn't sit at that twee writing desk in the picture. That would just be too perfect.

I'm ten pages into a book. The hardest part is not getting distracted by HGTV. It probably sucks, but my lack of talent is the second-biggest obstacle next to Generation Renovation.

crookedlawyer

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> @timbnyc44: What we need more of is edumacation. :( Now, ask me to recall the specifics of the nuclear fission McPhee book, and I can basically build a working reactor in then minutes. (If you can build a reactor out of cigarette butts.)

Choire

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> @Choire: Oh, hell, no. I agree, you need repetition to retain that kind of stuff, and how many geology books are any of us likely to read in our lifetimes? Maybe McPhee should have done a series of books with the same content but different framing stories. Eventually, we would have gotten it.

it takes a lot to laugh

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> @lawyergay: I joined for the health insurance. They sent me a link to ehealthinsurance.com, which offered the same rates they give everybody else.

TedSez

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> Way to go Choire! We're really running the gamut today. You're bringing so much news ( You weren't responsible for that Lohan mishap earlier, right?); Beckham, Cruise (I'm actually boycotting Cruise, that dude's name is freaking Mapother), NYC crime, socialites, now high brow literature. Class is fucking in session! Kneel thee all to Choire, making us smarter, one gawk at a time.

Spirit Fingers

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> @LolCait:

Hope it's better than Prostatitis: The Pastiche.

Seeräuber Jenny

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> @timbnyc44: Yeah, sure! But can YOU tell me now the difference between the fucking Devonian and the Ordovician? And if you can it's because you're a FREAK. (A freak of NATURE! Ha.) Something something Gondwana! Extinction event! It's not him, it's me: I just can't retain.

Choire

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> I didn't think 'Annals of the Former World' was that much of a trial to read. He did a good job of making the geologists characters and they all interesting lives that were a natural narrative arc.

Greg Lindsay, though, I've never heard of before.

it takes a lot to laugh

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> @lawyergay: But boa bucks are so useful for purchasing great things like tickets to Menopause: The Musical. And, shame.

LolCait

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> Novel-writing tips. Drink. Write. Throw up. Pass out.Wake up and delete the embarrassing shit. Repeat this procedure as needed. Seen that way, 25,000 words is little more than a few liters of Chivas and couple dozen rolls of Bounty paper towells.

Michael Jahn

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> @Choire: I am just going to come right out and ask if you're high today.

lululemming

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> It is with a deep and abiding shame that I confess to buying an AvantGuild membership. BUT! Only because I thought you could get Lexis for something like 60 dollars a month. Then I find out you can only get Nexis (just the news)--not Lexis--with the membership. So, fuck you, Touby. I want a refund. And not in "boa bucks."

lawyergay

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> At least it wasn't a "Family Guy" clip?

Colonel Mustard

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> OMG, you guys. Haa! Listen to the e-mail message I just got:

"Madam. . ."

mathnet

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> @Greg Lindsay: as;ldfjkasdl;fkjasdlkf3w4jtisadaf

Choire

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> 5th

mattychicago

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> @LolCait: Vich course?

nutmeg

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> Wow, we are really playing out the string this week.

Greg Lindsay

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> @KarenUhOh: Human discourse.

LolCait

]]> <![CDATA[Writer Finds Writing Book Hard!]]> Now give me this again: who do ve vant killed?

KarenUhOh

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