tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post4826288984279260840..comments2023-10-11T09:22:33.136-04:00Comments on Paperback Writer: Where's the Mothership?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-57358737785576762202010-02-15T08:42:20.944-05:002010-02-15T08:42:20.944-05:00You know, I knew that writing was work before I ev...You know, I knew that writing was work before I ever started. But it wasn't until after I wrote my book, revised it and then started to revise again (with a word count that is still a little short), did I really begin to experience the personal hell part. Huzzah!Little Bitshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12324107673573817188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-79260827702550896572010-02-12T18:37:30.024-05:002010-02-12T18:37:30.024-05:00Oooh, I love poorly-written writing books by peopl...Oooh, I love poorly-written writing books by people I've never heard of. I devour them with morbid fascination and try not to eat or drink at the same time.Alex Adamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12421948724206191688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-46700085318253777342010-02-12T15:03:55.009-05:002010-02-12T15:03:55.009-05:00This may sound weird but most of the final series ...This may sound weird but most of the final series books I have read are by Nora Roberts. The two i liked the best were Face the Fire from her threes sisters island trilogy and Valley of Silence of her circle trilogy. I will also add honorable mention for Finding the Dream, Red Lily and Key of Valor.JC Henryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08987637731100871600noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-68073219857365026772010-02-12T07:59:36.265-05:002010-02-12T07:59:36.265-05:00"like a couple truckloads of loose bricks.&qu..."like a couple truckloads of loose bricks."<br />Oh God, <i> yes! </i> that's it exactly!Bernitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05264585685253812090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-35889330322311466222010-02-11T21:07:08.644-05:002010-02-11T21:07:08.644-05:00Loved this so much, I wrote about it on my blog:
...Loved this so much, I wrote about it on my blog:<br /><br />http://thedrabbler.blogspot.com/2010/02/pixie-dust-ink-and-magic-are-all-you.htmlRobinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11083747823144710041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-28501161777873323882010-02-11T21:01:33.823-05:002010-02-11T21:01:33.823-05:00I'm laughing. I'm totally with you.Worse t...I'm laughing. I'm totally with you.Worse than a fiction writing book written by someone who has never written fiction is a workshop taught by the same. Avoid, avoid, avoid. That's my mantra.Trish and Rob MacGregorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02846270474176860924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-23320521276598272022010-02-11T16:27:11.525-05:002010-02-11T16:27:11.525-05:00Odd. A writer writing about how to write something...Odd. A writer writing about how to write something he/she has never written. <br /><br />Ah, if only I could spend my time writing how to do something I've never done! I'm sure that would go over really well!<br /><br />Perfect idea: How to Be a Man (by me!)<br /><br />Never done it, never will.<br /><br />I've read a lot of books on writing, but most are not helpful. Writing Down the Bones told me I needed to write three pages of journal (by hand, not on the computer) every morning, take at least an hour walk every day, and write out my entire life's history before I could go on. <br /><br />What did I do? I stopped reading.Dr. Cheryl Carvajalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15323455180953109460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-57076074698432505152010-02-11T15:42:25.889-05:002010-02-11T15:42:25.889-05:00Rachel wrote: What was the book so that we can avo...Rachel wrote: <i>What was the book so that we can avoid it?</i><br /><br />Fortunately it's not been published. I occasionally consult on submissions for an editor friend who needs a working writer to test drive how-tos. This one totally crashed and burned, but it was written by a non-writer entity who has never written novel-length fiction. Except this one. :)the authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03220786472896283714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-14254846307194712382010-02-11T15:22:12.181-05:002010-02-11T15:22:12.181-05:00You may think this to be shameless self-promotion ...You may think this to be shameless self-promotion (it is), but I based my writing book on, well, writing. The thread and needle of craft. It's Flogging the Quill, Crafting a Novel that Sells.<br /><br />For what it's worth.<br /><br />RayRay Rhameyhttp://www.ftqpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-63407308674421522632010-02-11T15:15:18.974-05:002010-02-11T15:15:18.974-05:00Your allotment of pixie dust is here to fore resci...Your allotment of pixie dust is here to fore rescinded by the Thaumaturgic Writers Guild! No wand for you!Eugenia Tibbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05747998135360446255noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-8123838112706752002010-02-11T14:51:00.631-05:002010-02-11T14:51:00.631-05:00I've become a recent convert to the Sisterhood...I've become a recent convert to the Sisterhood of Discipline Builds Momentum. Lilith Saintcrow is Mother Superior. I'm pretty sure you're a member without knowing it, Lynn. Our number one tenet is, "Nobody else is going to write it for you; sit down and shut up." I've plowed through 100p of novel draft in a bit over two weeks following this one simple rule. Only thing that works. ;)Jesshttp://www.jessicatudor.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-56053282865507615262010-02-11T14:33:19.773-05:002010-02-11T14:33:19.773-05:00My favorites are the writing ads that show you dow...My favorites are the writing ads that show you down by the ocean with your pad and papers. What they don't tell you is that the sun's so bright you're squinting, the wind is flapping your pages around, you've got sand where you don't want sand to be, and off-screen your husband's ogling the bikinis and the kids want to go back to the hotel and play Mario. Yep, some writing life.<br /><br />My favorite writing book is Rita Mae Brown's, not just because of the pretty sensible advice, but her reading list. If you want to be a great author, you have to start with Suetoneous, preferably in the original Latin, and work your way through a couple thousand years of books. I understand where she's coming from, but I doubt anyone ever really did it (or if they did, was capable of writing a coherent sentence).Bill Peschelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15257587479467531187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-30062786376605929912010-02-11T13:44:23.688-05:002010-02-11T13:44:23.688-05:00The fairies that do all my writing are really offe...The fairies that do all my writing are really offended by this post.lol<br /><br />Hysterical!! If those things really help anyone to write I am going to be so pissed. That is soooo not how its getting done at my house. Its all about the work.Marsha Sigmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11095210839900479297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-20668144566007584792010-02-11T12:20:44.083-05:002010-02-11T12:20:44.083-05:00You know, your "words as bricks" metapho...You know, your "words as bricks" metaphor is really working for me. It's very inspiring to visualize the words already there, lying around in my brain, just waiting for me to grab them and stick them in the right places.<br /><br />Plus, it's WAAAY less painful than the "giving birth" metaphor that's been consistently failing me. (I always chicken out right around the time my muse mentions the probable need for an episiotomy.)<br /><br />So, thank you for that. :)Selah Marchhttp://selahmarch.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-69225595715509172772010-02-11T11:47:45.868-05:002010-02-11T11:47:45.868-05:00Oh, priceless! Thanks for the laugh this morning!Oh, priceless! Thanks for the laugh this morning!Nicolehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00415819230337026236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-81765820774393288742010-02-11T11:45:34.326-05:002010-02-11T11:45:34.326-05:00Hell, if I tried writing...as in with a fricking p...Hell, if I tried writing...as in with a fricking pen for anything more than a few paragraphs here and there, the only things my hands would tell me would be:<br /><br />PUT<br />DOWN<br />PEN <br />NOW<br />GET<br />VICODIN<br />YOU<br />BITCH<br /><br />Book kind of sounds like the little yellow fluff ball in Horton Hears a Who:<br /><br />"In my world they eat rainbows and poop butterflies" or something like that.<br /><br />Um... that's not reality.Shiloh Walkerhttp://shilohwalker.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-56168728587162359342010-02-11T11:40:43.284-05:002010-02-11T11:40:43.284-05:00BWAhahaha!BWAhahaha!CKHBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17741681893677604323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-22592301226934098052010-02-11T11:10:27.361-05:002010-02-11T11:10:27.361-05:00Every book on writing gives value, even if it is o...Every book on writing gives value, even if it is only to create a baseline that other books on writing can be judged against. Good, bad or fluffy does not matter unless the reader thinks they are the one and only way to write. <br />- If you are going to read only one book on writing don't read any of them. <br />- If you are going to read at least one, then read at least twenty.Kris_Whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17511202057854275176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-51118824313366706402010-02-11T10:47:33.922-05:002010-02-11T10:47:33.922-05:00I really had to laugh at the right and left hand c...I really had to laugh at the right and left hand comments. Mine talk to each other, yes they do! They accuse each other all the time for developing the arthritis that makes them ache. So far though, their creativity has been nil.<br /><br />I have only three or four books on writing. More than that and I get way too confused. So I think I'll skip this one too.nightsmusichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05984119792540771870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-78248853932601846752010-02-11T10:11:58.177-05:002010-02-11T10:11:58.177-05:00This is hilarious! I wonder what it means if you o...This is hilarious! I wonder what it means if you only use a computer keyboard for writing...do you use one hand to type to write down your questions? Because Lord knows if I had to actually write with my left hand, I'd never be able to know what it wanted to tell me. It's not very good at writing, I'm afraid.Danica Avethttp://www.danicaavet.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-16045047699894288432010-02-11T09:09:55.982-05:002010-02-11T09:09:55.982-05:00You mean I've been waiting to get touched with...You mean I've been waiting to get touched with the magic writing wand and it's not going to happen?Sofie Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16830230500527705589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-61107563810056740372010-02-11T08:37:00.101-05:002010-02-11T08:37:00.101-05:00Oh, so that's why this book isn't done yet...Oh, so that's why this book isn't done yet. I've been spending too much time on my nebulizer!<br /><br />I do think oxygen to the brain helps, but yep, words must be written down. That's why they call it writing.Charlene Tegliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01483186891214783397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-62216781300706777662010-02-11T08:27:13.065-05:002010-02-11T08:27:13.065-05:00Hilarious post!
Another blogger reviewed a craft ...Hilarious post!<br /><br />Another blogger reviewed a craft book that must've been this same one. Now I'll doubly avoid it! Fairies are for my 4yo daughter.Janna Leadbetterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06339705935553160673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-87333146338653013112010-02-11T07:53:41.648-05:002010-02-11T07:53:41.648-05:00I have a whole shelf full of how-to books, but I f...I have a whole shelf full of how-to books, but I find myself re-reading the nuts and bolts ones, and ignoring the fairy dust ones. I'd rather brush up on the best way to handle POV or flashbacks or dialog than read about what a sensitive snowflake I am.<br /><br />Writing is a job. It's the best damn job in the entire universe, bar none, but that's all it is. It's not a holy calling.Margaret Yanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06464624057491288244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-49893090258994517922010-02-11T04:41:22.357-05:002010-02-11T04:41:22.357-05:00What? No rohirrim and paladins and magical artifac...What? No rohirrim and paladins and magical artifacts? I think I'll quit that career... <br /><br />But Im' glad you, too, still read "how to" books. I just picked up "The Art of War for Writers" and so far I think I have the approach of some old Chinese general to writing... I'm really quite strategic. Which I guess is good. I'm always amazed at all the unecessary anguish"young writers" put themselves through...like they have this deal going on with the universe "if I suffer enough for writing, I will surely make it big".<br /><br />Uhm, no, not exactly.Aleksandr Voinovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06583805228909693924noreply@blogger.com