After his wife Vera rescues a manuscript from a fire,Vladimir Nabokov decides to call his work Lolita,changing it from his initial title,Humbert Does Dolores.
yer right cuzzin,it really is that simple. even for a charity case like me,who has no hope of publishing a single word anytime soon —- if in a given day i don’t write some words that will never be read,i become a fulminating sourball. as opposed to the simmering sourball i revert to after venting onto the handiest screen,page,or scrap of wood.
I’ve been meaning to stop by and leave you a note thanking you for the Heller recommendation (Something Happened). It’s been added to my (always very long) list of books I want to read,so I do hope to get around to it someday! It did look pretty good. Anyway,thank you for that. I was going to wait until I had a chance to read some more of your blog because I feel bad just leaving a comment on a “stranger’s”page,but I did read the entry I am commenting on (at least! sorry!) and I hear you,I really do. I have been avoiding doing the writing I need to do recently,too,by telling myself I’m too busy. The fact is I don’t have any good ideas,ugh. But I guess we just need to write,no matter what,and we’ll get through the worse times. As a professor of mine once said,it’s like playing an instrument:you need to just keep practicing,whether or not you’re producing anything you think is quality. –Good luck! I’ll cross my fingers we both have some better writing days ahead of us…
I got my name published in Record Collector UK a few years ago by sending them a picture of the sleeve for a rare record I own. I asked for a comp copy and I got it 6 months later. I was thrilled.
~Glad you posted,arianna. your prof is absolutely correct. writers write,every day. but if you can’t think of ideas,do what shakespeare did:steal them. As T.S. Eliot said,“Hacks plagarize;genuises steal.”
~Dirty jokes in Playboy are so passe. I don’t know what P-boy pays for jokes,though they pay a lot for short stories.
~Record Collector UK:if only I got that much recognition. ah,a man can dream.
Hey BF,i have 3 Social Science papers due in the next 3 months. How bout i do all the research and you can do the writing….who knows you may get inspiration and make a sad and sorry University student very happy
I work at a job that pays well,but provides absolutely no mental stimulation or opportunity for growth or advancement. Previously,this would have made me crazy and I would have quit out of sheer frustration. I wanted to for the first few months after starting here. But then I started pouring all my free time and unused brain power into my writing.
What a difference! I don’t think I could handle going back to a job that challenged me,since it would take energy away from my writing.
~English Prof re:“I am fashion”—I was thinking more of flaubert or catherine (“I am Heathcliff”) but the sun king’s “L’état,c’est moi”works nicely too.
do you think p-diddly was thinking of M. Bovary,wuthering heights,or louis xiv when he said he was fashion? an egomaniac,yes,but not necessarily a dummy.
~l boros:if you weren’t such a wuss,you’d at least sin enough to make it to the eighth circle.
yer right cuzzin,it really is that simple. even for a charity case like me,who has no hope of publishing a single word anytime soon —- if in a given day i don’t write some words that will never be read,i become a fulminating sourball. as opposed to the simmering sourball i revert to after venting onto the handiest screen,page,or scrap of wood.
I’ve been meaning to stop by and leave you a note thanking you for the Heller recommendation (Something Happened). It’s been added to my (always very long) list of books I want to read,so I do hope to get around to it someday!
It did look pretty good. Anyway,thank you for that. I was going to wait until I had a chance to read some more of your blog because I feel bad just leaving a comment on a “stranger’s”page,but I did read the entry I am commenting on (at least! sorry!) and I hear you,I really do. I have been avoiding doing the writing I need to do recently,too,by telling myself I’m too busy. The fact is I don’t have any good ideas,ugh. But I guess we just need to write,no matter what,and we’ll get through the worse times. As a professor of mine once said,it’s like playing an instrument:you need to just keep practicing,whether or not you’re producing anything you think is quality. –Good luck! I’ll cross my fingers we both have some better writing days ahead of us…
Your best chance of getting published is sending a dirty joke to Playboy magazine.
I got my name published in Record Collector UK a few years ago by sending them a picture of the sleeve for a rare record I own. I asked for a comp copy and I got it 6 months later. I was thrilled.
~”Fulminating sourball”kinda sums it all up.
~Glad you posted,arianna. your prof is absolutely correct. writers write,every day. but if you can’t think of ideas,do what shakespeare did:steal them. As T.S. Eliot said,“Hacks plagarize;genuises steal.”
~Dirty jokes in Playboy are so passe. I don’t know what P-boy pays for jokes,though they pay a lot for short stories.
~Record Collector UK:if only I got that much recognition. ah,a man can dream.
Don’t be so hard on yourself…even jotting down a shopping list is writing in my book.
aw don’t lissen to her. be as hard on yourself as you want! life is short.
~Bees Knees:thanks for your understanding and support.
~L Boros:no thanks for your negative thoughts. go to hell,you bastard.
Hey BF,i have 3 Social Science papers due in the next 3 months. How bout i do all the research and you can do the writing….who knows you may get inspiration and make a sad and sorry University student very happy
I work at a job that pays well,but provides absolutely no mental stimulation or opportunity for growth or advancement. Previously,this would have made me crazy and I would have quit out of sheer frustration. I wanted to for the first few months after starting here. But then I started pouring all my free time and unused brain power into my writing.
What a difference! I don’t think I could handle going back to a job that challenged me,since it would take energy away from my writing.
I heard this on NPR this morning and thought I’d share it with you. I haven’t read the excerpt yet.
glitzy:thanks for the link. It just takes one person to launch a book. maybe i’ll just post the damn thing and somebody will notice.
Bookfraud said…~L Boros:no thanks for your negative thoughts. go to hell,you bastard.
bf —- you know it. level 7;feels like heaven.
“he said,‘I am fashion.’This did not raise my hackles but Wife thought it one of the most unintentionally hilarious quotes ever.”
Right up with there “I am the state,”eh? And you see what that got the good king!
~English Prof re:“I am fashion”—I was thinking more of flaubert or catherine (“I am Heathcliff”) but the sun king’s “L’état,c’est moi”works nicely too.
do you think p-diddly was thinking of M. Bovary,wuthering heights,or louis xiv when he said he was fashion? an egomaniac,yes,but not necessarily a dummy.
~l boros:if you weren’t such a wuss,you’d at least sin enough to make it to the eighth circle.