tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post8739179768627362485..comments2023-10-11T09:22:33.136-04:00Comments on Paperback Writer: 25Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-48800338678908889532012-09-16T23:35:10.033-04:002012-09-16T23:35:10.033-04:00These are wonderful ~ the original 25 and all the ...These are wonderful ~ the original 25 and all the rest that followed! Having been recently maligned for wasting my time blogging on my computer, it's great to find my niche here with writing friends I'm waiting to meet. Write on!Eula McLeodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09271036127051327841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-66475273671600791042012-07-28T15:32:54.525-04:002012-07-28T15:32:54.525-04:00obviously you struck a nerve... well done!obviously you struck a nerve... well done!Thoughts from all over...https://www.blogger.com/profile/10643761743290637714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-88162030333000665432011-08-26T13:03:11.604-04:002011-08-26T13:03:11.604-04:00Because you'll do less time for WRITING about ...Because you'll do less time for WRITING about killing some deserving sob than you will for ACTUALLY killing the deserving sob.<br /><br />sjSpartacus Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08835372223383581959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-71007319496783541592008-12-29T19:09:00.000-05:002008-12-29T19:09:00.000-05:00Note that she specifies niether the gender nor the...Note that she specifies niether the gender nor the physique of this impersonator....M Harold Pagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08949772130509527838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-3709204772138478702008-12-29T08:15:00.000-05:002008-12-29T08:15:00.000-05:00Sean Lindsay wrote: Long overdue observation: You ...Sean Lindsay wrote: <I>Long overdue observation: You posted this on my birthday! You are truly my nemesis.</I><BR/><BR/>That I am. Next year I'm sending a stripper dressed like an aspiring writer to your house to sing you happy birthday.the authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03220786472896283714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-56741990379482141352008-12-29T06:42:00.000-05:002008-12-29T06:42:00.000-05:00Long overdue observation: You posted this on my bi...Long overdue observation: You posted this on <I>my birthday</I>! You are truly my nemesis.Sean Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05675288177034810644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-73624812746174594252008-09-28T10:08:00.000-04:002008-09-28T10:08:00.000-04:00Eh, those SSRIs make better contraceptives than an...Eh, those SSRIs make better contraceptives than anything from Durex.nonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00415222406280230021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-22114066807715215762008-09-26T18:54:00.000-04:002008-09-26T18:54:00.000-04:00I know I'm waaaaay late on this, but...It doesn't ...I know I'm waaaaay late on this, but...<BR/><BR/>It doesn't come (so to speak) with those nasty, orgasm-retarding, sex-life-ruining side effects associated with Prozac and Zoloft.<BR/><BR/>Not that I have any personal experience with...you know...THAT.<BR/><BR/>*shifty eyes*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-34600471745742494742008-09-26T15:27:00.000-04:002008-09-26T15:27:00.000-04:00My reasons to keep writing.. I like working my own...My reasons to keep writing.. I like working my own hours. <BR/><BR/>And I LOVE the feeling of holding a book in my hands and knowing the words on the page came from my imagination. <BR/><BR/>And I enjoy creating a character, and sending them on a journey.<BR/><BR/><BR/>My reasons for taking a break...I blogged about on my own blog.Sasha Whitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11466835168725022995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-69701908785803120732008-09-26T13:36:00.000-04:002008-09-26T13:36:00.000-04:00I seem to have given up writing without intending ...I seem to have given up writing without intending to. What I need are reasons to start again :).<BR/><BR/>The likelihood of being published doesn't seem to be one of them! lolnonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00415222406280230021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-74686624761512077712008-09-25T09:56:00.000-04:002008-09-25T09:56:00.000-04:00It's the only legal way to kill somebody off...It's the only legal way to kill somebody off...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-83806595783139875962008-09-24T22:34:00.000-04:002008-09-24T22:34:00.000-04:00Numbers 4 and 20 are spot on. I think they'll keep...Numbers 4 and 20 are spot on. I think they'll keep me writing long after the doubts have paralyzed me. Heh.<BR/><BR/>I'd have to add:<BR/><BR/>26. How else can you make the world disappear for 6 hours straight and have a legitimate reason for ignoring your loved ones?<BR/><BR/>27. Fixing your hair for the work day is optional. <I>Very</I> optional.<BR/><BR/>28. Your characters need you to breathe life and vivacity into them. No one else could do it half as well. They depend on you.<BR/><BR/>29. An appallingly small percentage of the current youth population understands the difference between literature and net-speak. It's frightening.<BR/><BR/>30. Nothing is more satisfying than describing something so fully that a reader can almost reach out and touch it, can practically smell it, can darn near taste it. Except for writing "the end". Heh.GutterBallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17943760313844692975noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-22947559292059181582008-09-24T15:58:00.000-04:002008-09-24T15:58:00.000-04:00Oh... thank you.This is the week I drop out of law...Oh... thank you.<BR/><BR/>This is the week I drop out of law school, find a day job/career that can pay the bills without stealing my soul/time, and go back to writing. So thank you.dirtycarriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09414721562876577708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-38246558096864798372008-09-24T14:12:00.000-04:002008-09-24T14:12:00.000-04:00There must be something in the air, or with the ch...There must be something in the air, or with the change of seasons. I blogged about this the other day as well at Authors Tools Blog.<BR/><BR/>Some of my reasons are...<BR/><BR/> * To get the voices out of my head and down on paper<BR/> * To share my stories with the world<BR/> * To prove to myself that I can do better than the author of the book I just threw against the wall<BR/> * Fame and fortune — yeah, right!<BR/> * Because I can’t NOT write<BR/><BR/>I'm looking forward to November and hoping that the weather is worse this year than last year.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-25964742897024449922008-09-24T06:04:00.000-04:002008-09-24T06:04:00.000-04:00Retrospective validation of rambling life path - i...Retrospective validation of rambling life path - it was all feeding the muse! Honest!<BR/><BR/>But mainly because writing makes my imagination real. Story is time travel, or dimension travel at least.M Harold Pagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08949772130509527838noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-54382389361014745602008-09-23T19:18:00.000-04:002008-09-23T19:18:00.000-04:00LOL,I'm gonna share this with a few other folks.He...LOL,<BR/><BR/>I'm gonna share this with a few other folks.<BR/><BR/>Here's my contribution - Working in PJ's is acceptable work clothes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-16546050312828583322008-09-23T18:15:00.000-04:002008-09-23T18:15:00.000-04:00You're the only person able to use "writer's Block...You're the only person able to use "writer's Block" as an excuse for laundry still undone.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03880031170822895367noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-69647929184804855282008-09-23T17:21:00.000-04:002008-09-23T17:21:00.000-04:00-The conversations are always better, because you ...-The conversations are always better, because you get to have input into both sides.<BR/><BR/>-Living in Alaska its dark and quiet for an awfully long time, but I can tell a story about the sunrise and whamo! there it is.<BR/><BR/>-the research (see #9)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13152540665352170999noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-39207694996024625312008-09-23T14:35:00.000-04:002008-09-23T14:35:00.000-04:00Great list! Now I need to get back to work again....Great list! Now I need to get back to work again. Thanks!Virginia Ladyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16641613214603672322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-91508440885018463232008-09-23T14:20:00.000-04:002008-09-23T14:20:00.000-04:00HelloDefinitely like this one.. very good list esp...Hello<BR/>Definitely like this one.. very good list especially for all of us..<BR/>Hugs!Nicole Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16782208920942749064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-23128691055435875732008-09-23T14:07:00.000-04:002008-09-23T14:07:00.000-04:00It's the only job where you can kill off a few tho...It's the only job where you can kill off a few thousand people in horrible ways before lunch and still consider yourself a good and decent person.Perpetual Beginnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09625596315528064536noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-77148342488797817422008-09-23T12:57:00.000-04:002008-09-23T12:57:00.000-04:005 and 22 are enough for me. I also have, "I must n...5 and 22 are enough for me. <BR/><BR/>I also have, "I must not have heard you, honey. I was filling plotholes in my head."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-60937083311122288692008-09-23T12:54:00.000-04:002008-09-23T12:54:00.000-04:00Oooh, griffyn's wings, what about the wings on a g...Oooh, griffyn's wings, what about the wings on a gargoyle? Or what that branch of the evolutionary tree would look like?<BR/>How about #26- It gives you something else to think about while waiting for "the call" (or the email), and is less painful than chewing off all of you finger nails (they're already short enough as it is). Wait. wait. wait....Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17968479919482739686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-63248538107287867872008-09-23T10:48:00.000-04:002008-09-23T10:48:00.000-04:00Ha! Thanks. Okay, more reasons:1. It's cheaper tha...Ha! Thanks. Okay, more reasons:<BR/>1. It's cheaper than therapy<BR/>2. It's a good way to avoid a Real Job<BR/>2a. Where people would expect you to be able to find the things you filed while you were imagining what sort of tendons a griffyn's wings would have and how they would move.charlenetegliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14061754720849284938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8343238.post-65072068277673334082008-09-23T10:43:00.000-04:002008-09-23T10:43:00.000-04:00Keep writing because somewhere out there is someon...Keep writing because somewhere out there is someone (like me) who is going to love your book. They are going to pick it up in the store and admire the cover, then read the back. They are going to flip to the first page and read, while in their mind and heart, they beg you to pull them in. When your words, pulled from your heart and brain, speak to theirs, in those few short paragraphs or pages, they will buy this child of your soul, and they will take it home. One day or night, they will pick it up with a small flutter of anticipation in their chest, a tiny light of greedy happiness in their eyes, and they will curl up or stretch out somewhere and read. They might read your child all in one sitting, but if they don't they will put it away with sorrow, and eager anticipation for when they can return to the world you have created for them to visit. And, when they finally finish their read, they will smile, because you have met their hopes for a good read, perhaps even a great one. You have filled their reader's soul for a few hours; you have scratched their eternal itch. And, with the magic shared between your writer's soul and their reader's, you have created a bond that will bring them back to you when you write again.<BR/><BR/>Mary2Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02080542785714089251noreply@blogger.com