<![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> Didn't you guys already cover this guy when he fought Jonathan Ames last year? [gawker.com]

slunchie

]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> @Itsjustcatnip: I had to shelve my sci-fi epic after I fell off the roof.

KarenUhOh

]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> I was writing a western, but I shot my writing hand in the third chapter.

Itsjustcatnip

]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> I'm just glad his character doesn't commit suicide at the end.

dumblonde

]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> @BeRightBack: Ha! Scarier Spice.

Bell County

]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> @Bell County: Thanks! Fascinating.

I enjoyed this: She doesn't know she's got a genetic defect. She might give you a nasty lick, that's all.

Sure, but that's what they said about Victoria Beckham too, and now look...

BeRightBack

]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> @Gyrus: I have to disagree that talking to someone whose done something provides the same depth of understanding as experiencing it yourself. I'm not saying you couldn't write a great book by internalizing what you've heard described, but you get a different perspective from experiencing something firsthand. You get the totality of the journey, the behind the scenes, the pitch-black-middle-of-the-night..., the subconscious. It's like having kids vs. having friends who have kids. I have a very good idea what the lives of my friends who have kids are like, what are their struggles, what are their fears/joys, what they are doing at 2 o'clock on a Tuesday. But I can only stand on the threshold of what I imagine the feeling of "being mommy" must feel like.

You can't always tell when a writer hasn't personally experienced what they are writing about. But when you can tell that they have, and you've been there too, that's a powerful authenticity, at least for me. David Rakoff's essay about doing a master cleanse comes to mind as a time when I appreciated knowing a writer had really done something. Granted that was nonfiction. But it was interesting because his life was the laboratory and his body was the experiment, and what he wrote about ended up speaking to me, as I'm unfortunately endlessly seeking some kind of intellectual by-product from the diet-schedules that I'm doomed to rely upon.

I wouldn't say you have to take steroids to write about the experience, or to write about it well. But you're going to have to put a lot of work into it somehow, and I don't think any two projects should be approached the same way, so trying the "monkey do, monkey write" way at least once seems like a valid thing to do.

Zorica

]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> I wish I could trick myself into working out obsessively.

Suffering for art is definitely necessary, it's part of the fun of being an artist.

Zorica

]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> ...and then he started hitting home runs.

famousauthor

]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> Help?

it takes a lot to laugh

]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> @fiveinchtaint: @crazycatlady: Info on dog is here: [www.dailymail.co.uk]

Bell County

]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> What the heck is up with that dog? This reminds me of an old This American Life episode (on the radio). They measured testosterone level in the staff and it turned out the resident gay had the highest followed by some ladies and then the dudes.

crazycatlady

]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> It's like Barry Bonds writing If I Did It.

Clarence Rosario

]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> Sounds like there are worse times. I will read this book and inject myself with steroids "for authenticity", and, of course, moobs. maybe that is the next step. I will return to all my old mandatory books of Christmas Past and journey with them. I will start with The Color Purple, and just go from there!

Kublai Yawn

]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> [www.esquire.com]

SigSauer

]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> Esquire doesn't get international rights for its articles?

SigSauer

]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> I thought he was Scottish?

jackvinyl

]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> I'm using a localized steroid regimen on my left forearm and right calve - going for the "lopsided fiddler crab" look I've longed for since my botany professor danced in class.

nonpareil

]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> and yet, chuck palahniuk beat him to his story. sigh.

mitchel_stevens

]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> The prostate is an organ I associate with old men..."

Please kill me.

NinaHagen

]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> Didn't some guy do this for GQ a couple years ago? Or was that sex hormones

Incher_George

]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> Pussy.

chazerium

]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> When did writers start to have such an utter lack of imagination? Or research skills? Or common sense?

You go and talk to roid abusers, not become one. Jackass.

Gyrus

]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> I just wanted to say that, as a hermetic Canadian/Calgarian writer who checks Gawker every day to bring some 'zazz' into my boring humdrum existence, I am happy to see myself, as well as a picture of a giant 'roided-out dog, covered on your pages. Seriously. And my testicles are back to normal size now, which doesn't make them terribly exceptional but I am nonetheless happy to have them back. The article originally appeared in Esquire, in a bit altered form. Very best, Craig Davidson.

AstridGoldfinch

]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> Is that picture real? That's some scary shit. I've never seen Resident Evil because scary dogs scare me.

fiveinchtaint

]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> Couldn't he have just watched WWF or something?

IHateNewYork

]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> Merely from reading this article, I can tell that I would enjoy reading his book.

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA[Method Writer Takes Steroids For Authenticity]]> If Craig Davidson's character jumped off a cliff, would he do the same? Sheesh.

Stastibugger

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