"One out of several humiliating features about writing fiction for a living is that here after all is just about everybody else, all along the capitalist spectrum from piano movers to systems analysts, cheerfully selling their bodies or body parts according to time-honored custom and usage, while it's only writers, out at the fringes of the entertainment sector, wretched and despised, who are obliged, more intimately and painfully, actually to sell their dreams, yes dreams these days you'll find are every bit as commoditized as any pork bellies there on the financial page. To be upbeat about it, though, in most cases it doesn't present much moral problem since dreams seldom make it through into print with anything like the original production values anyway. Even if you do good recovery learning to write legibly in the dark and so forth, there's still the matter of getting it down in words that can bring back even a little of the clarity and sweep, the intensity of emotion, the transcendent weirdness of the primary experience. So it's a safe bet that most writers' dreams, maybe even including the best ones, manage to stay untranslated and private after all."
Listening to Pandora when suddenly a commercial comes on, starting with something along the lines of "If you want to get into baking, start with cupcakes."
Three guesses where my mind immediately went at that point, and the first two don't count.
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Peeps should be careful about discussing specific mother heap issues over here. Especially since many people over there are members here.
If people got into it with each-other over here for stuff over there, that would violate rule #4 about importing drama and then bans would likely be issued along with the sadness and gnashing of teeth.
"But man, seriously, screw you Loid. I'm really getting sick of these "Oh by the lol you suck" comments you seem to adore making."
Not that this would be OK if he didn't, but: you realize he posts here, right? Since he's probably already read this you might as well work it out over PMs. Either way, stop dragging some mess from TVTropes onto here.
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Indeed.
"One out of several humiliating features about writing fiction for a
living is that here after all is just about everybody else, all along
the capitalist spectrum from piano movers to systems analysts,
cheerfully selling their bodies or body parts according to time-honored
custom and usage, while it's only writers, out at the fringes of the
entertainment sector, wretched and despised, who are obliged, more
intimately and painfully, actually to sell their dreams, yes dreams
these days you'll find are every bit as commoditized as any pork bellies
there on the financial page. To be upbeat about it, though, in most
cases it doesn't present much moral problem since dreams seldom make it
through into print with anything like the original production values
anyway. Even if you do good recovery learning to write legibly in the
dark and so forth, there's still the matter of getting it down in words
that can bring back even a little of the clarity and sweep, the
intensity of emotion, the transcendent weirdness of the primary
experience. So it's a safe bet that most writers' dreams, maybe even
including the best ones, manage to stay untranslated and private after
all."
(I almost wrote "party hats are pointless" but that's obviously untrue)
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Loid.
Y U so mean. :/
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
See, I'm gonna... stay away from the motherheap for a little while. ._.
Some more opinions?
how many boroughs are there in Greyson City
Either that, or I'm so used to the same kind of attitude that it doesn't bother me much anymore.
Even so, that comment was just uncalled for.
How long have I been gone?
the place must have fallen apart without me
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
Not that this would be OK if he didn't, but: you realize he posts here, right? Since he's probably already read this you might as well work it out over PMs. Either way, stop dragging some mess from TVTropes onto here.
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