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sophiemp
 29 Mar 2010, 15:40 #85130 Reply To Post
Quote: awrigley, Monday, 29 Mar 2010 15:20
Quote: sophiemp, Monday, 29 Mar 2010 13:55


...I've always thought we should write what we write and let someone else label it if they must.



Patti

I have a sneaking admiration for people who can write to order. [Akin, almost, to being able to fart to order, something my great aunt Millicent could allegedly do effortlessly].

I mean, who could possibly write the script for Eastenders (UK soap about Londoners)? It must have something to do with having a mortgage and working as part of a production team, with deadlines and such.

Do editorial deadlines spoilt any of the fun of writing? I suspect I would take up painting again.

Andrew





Editorial deadlines spoil ALL the fun of writing.

No, actually that's not true. The writing is still fun. What's spoiled is all the time you're NOT writing, because whatever else you're doing, you feel like you should be writing, and you're worrying about the deadline.

I'm lucky to have an editor who puts no pressure at all on me. But then, she doesn't have to, because I do it to myself.

I admire people who can do it, too. I'm not one of them, and I don't expect I ever will be. Just as well I'm not one of those people who wants to give up my day job.

I always said that if writing stopped being fun, I would stop doing it. I'm confident that it won't stop being fun, and what I will stop doing is signing contracts before I have a completed draft.

But this is just me. I know other people who have contracts and deadlines and aren't at all bothered by them.
awrigley
 29 Mar 2010, 16:01 #85134 Reply To Post
Yup, thought so. We all phaff around here thinking that it's the day job wot stops us writing, but it isn't. The second degree mistake is to make writing the day job... which is what we're all phaffing on about. And so forth.

Ie, be careful what you wish for. It can get circular.
This post was last edited by awrigley, 29 Mar 2010, 16:12
Memory... What was that?
pam123writing
 29 Mar 2010, 16:21 #85138 Reply To Post
Quote: dancingsue, Monday, 29 Mar 2010 15:17
Quote: pam123writing, Monday, 29 Mar 2010 13:56
Quote: Lawrence H Poole, Monday, 29 Mar 2010 13:42
...a lot of posturing around an empty handbag.

This is a pretty accurate description of how David uses words in A, B & E.


Why are you all calling Sulcus David?


Because that's his name.

I think only other people can bestow the term 'literary' on fiction. It seems too pretentious otherwise, rather like calling oneself A Poet.


I've only ever known him as Marc. That's why I asked. First time I've ever heard him referred to as David.
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Carole
 29 Mar 2010, 16:28 #85142 Reply To Post
Could be hexagonal?
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sulcus
 29 Mar 2010, 16:33 #85145 Reply To Post
Quote: pam123writing, Monday, 29 Mar 2010 16:21
Quote: dancingsue, Monday, 29 Mar 2010 15:17
Quote: pam123writing, Monday, 29 Mar 2010 13:56
Quote: Lawrence H Poole, Monday, 29 Mar 2010 13:42
...a lot of posturing around an empty handbag.

This is a pretty accurate description of how David uses words in A, B & E.


Why are you all calling Sulcus David?


Because that's his name.

I think only other people can bestow the term 'literary' on fiction. It seems too pretentious otherwise, rather like calling oneself A Poet.


I've only ever known him as Marc. That's why I asked. First time I've ever heard him referred to as David.


Lawrence is an iconoclast. Didn't you know this?
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dancingsue
 29 Mar 2010, 16:33 #85146 Reply To Post
Quote: Carole, Monday, 29 Mar 2010 16:28
Could be hexagonal?


Obtuse.
the long and the short of it

salvino bird
 30 Apr 2010, 22:55 #87349 Reply To Post
Quote: LoopyLou, Monday, 30 Mar 2009 12:22
I've read Ordinary Monsters and a A Warped Sense of Uma. Both very good books.

Mine's called Eden, a fantasy romance. What's yours about?


a warped sense of humour - what a great title that is.
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