I spent some time with real writers today!

[Farrah]

I was a writer. And an editor. Trust me on this. If you got publishable quotes from 25 interview subjects, wrote an outline, three sidebars, the lead and ultimately the whole damn piece, sweetheart, YOU are a writer.

The fact that she hired you for $10 an hour qualifies her to be a publisher.

Every member of my immediate family bought a copy of that month's issue. I have it in my portfolio, and I'm proud of my work. I just remember how hot my face felt when I opened the magazine and saw my "research" credit. That stung.

Thank you, as always, for the kind words.

 

[CHNOPS]

Douglas Coupland!

 

[CHNOPS]

According to this website, W.P Kinsella is Canadian too. WTF? He likes baseball. The internet must be wrong on this one.

 

[semen4her]

Don't be so hard on Canadian writers. You guys have Saul Bellow and...um....

My friend from Windsor is an aspiring screen writer, who is presently residing in Oregon.

He's gotta account for something.

So, they aren't as good?

What was the last book you read by a Canadian author?

 

[thør]

My friend from Windsor is an aspiring screen writer, who is presently residing in Oregon.

Last I was in Windsor, it was like a nice small town.

What was the last book you read by a Canadian author?

Three Seasons Into the Wind.

 

[CHNOPS]

According to professor Wiki, Kinsella is not just Canadian, but incredibly Canadian. I've only ever read his baseball books. Wiki says he's got a whole series on Canada's version of real Indians, and still lives in Canadia somewhere. I thought he taught in the Iowa program.

I may have to begin liking him less now.

 

[Phelia]

Don't be so hard on Canadian writers. You guys have Saul Bellow and...um....

The city libraries hold an event here called "The Eh List." I went. It was awesome.

Writing at a Tim Horton's would be like writing at a Subway.

 

[CHNOPS]

Writing at a Subway would be awesome.

 

[thør]

The city libraries hold an event here called "The Eh List." I went. It was awesome.

Writing at a Tim Horton's would be like writing at a Subway.

Except with donuts.......

 

[CHNOPS]

I don't feel that you people are sufficiently attentive to my pain.

I just found out a very good writer whom I previously thought positively of is Canadian.

It is obviously a difficult time for me.

 

[thør]

I don't feel that you people are sufficiently attentive to my pain.

I just found out a very good writer whom I previously thought positively of is Canadian.

It is obviously a difficult time for me.

I've had similar disappointment in the engineering game......

 

[semen4her]

I don't feel that you people are sufficiently attentive to my pain.

I just found out a very good writer whom I previously thought positively of is Canadian.

It is obviously a difficult time for me.

Many Americans struggle with this.

Being inferior to Canadians really eats away at most of you.

Its okay, we understand.

 

[KRCummings]

Seems like most writers that have written about the craft say to avoid coffee shops and semi-private clubs meant for writers like the plague. Some will say they do their best writing in them. Lawrence Block seems to do a lot of writing in them and Rowling started the same way. King on the other hand says it has to be private and at least relatively quiet.
In school they taught that private was better although I can't see how something like that could apply to everyone. Journalism profs are notoriously snobbish so they think what they say applies to all.

Anywho, that's all I had to say on the subject. Which is to say, not very much.

p.s. I wrote this in a quiet, private room.

p.p.s. I have to flush now.

 

[KRCummings]

Many Americans struggle with this.

Being inferior to Canadians really eats away at most of you.

Its okay, we understand.

It's not so much being inferior that bugs us, it's the hockey and curling. Oh, and Bryan Adams.

 

[Sean]

It's not so much being inferior that bugs us, it's the hockey and curling. Oh, and Bryan Adams.

Celine fucking Dion.

 

[bronzeage]

Many Americans struggle with this.

Being inferior to Canadians really eats away at most of you.

Its okay, we understand.

Canadian women are hot for US men, especially southern US men.

 

[thør]

Seems like most writers that have written about the craft say to avoid coffee shops and semi-private clubs meant for writers like the plague. Some will say they do their best writing in them. Lawrence Block seems to do a lot of writing in them and Rowling started the same way. King on the other hand says it has to be private and at least relatively quiet.
In school they taught that private was better although I can't see how something like that could apply to everyone. Journalism profs are notoriously snobbish so they think what they say applies to all.

http://i-cdn.apartmenttherapy.com/uimages/re-nest/2011-2-4-gbs_shed.jpg

George Bernard Shaw's writer's hut.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

'Canadian' and 'fill in the blank' is an oxymoron. Canadian stands alone like, SHIT HOUSE or SYPHILIS or DENTAL DECAY; its self-evident.

 

[KRCummings]

http://i-cdn.apartmenttherapy.com/uimages/re-nest/2011-2-4-gbs_shed.jpg

George Bernard Shaw's writer's hut.

I saw an interview with Grisham once and he had an office in an outbuilding like that. Nice of course but still basically the same.

 

[thør]

I saw an interview with Grisham once and he had an office in an outbuilding like that. Nice of course but still basically the same.

Did it rotate?

 

[KRCummings]

Did it rotate?

If it did he didn't show it. Certainly has enough money to have a rotating office.

 

[thør]

If it did he didn't show it. Certainly has enough money to have a rotating office.

Shaw's little shed was hand rotated to keep the sun streaming in the window.

 

[KRCummings]

Shaw's little shed was hand rotated to keep the sun streaming in the window.

Writers are like that sometimes. They need things like sun shining through a window all the time. Others could write flying in coach during a thunderstorm surrounded by small children.

 

[RjThoughts]

When do my 7 to whenever nerd job, I work in a semi-private office, the door closes and I can put on the iPod, but there is a wall of windows and people can see me.

I'm not ashamed to say that I love to write fiction, read fiction, where ever, when ever the mood, the Muse, hits. I am never without a notebook and pen to write something down. I can't write much at home: Too many distractions, mostly the Better Half.

The two Starbucks I frequent most are usually filled with college students: Closest has community college and liberal arts/engineering collegestudents, the other close to a mall has nursing, law, and medical colleges students.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Where you posers write only matters if you got nuthin to say.