Justine Larbalestier

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Writing about writing

I just received a very cute email thanking me for all my posts about writing and saying how helpful they find them—for, which, well, blush!—but wondering how I find the time.

It’s like this: writing about writing is way easier than, you know, actually writing.

Posted by Justine at 10:59, 8 January 2008 under Bloggery, Excuses, Frippery, Writing life | 14 Comments »

Comments

  1. Camille Says:

    Ha ha ha! For shame! :-D

    January 8th, 2008 at 11:38 AM

  2. Patrick Says:

    omg! You are writing about writing about writing.

    Is that even easier than just writing about writing?

    January 8th, 2008 at 12:16 PM

  3. 3. Justine Says:

    patrick: Yup. Writing about writing about writing about writing is the best thing ever. Total piece of cake!

    January 8th, 2008 at 12:23 PM

  4. Patrick Says:

    mmmmmm, cake! when will the madness stop?

    January 8th, 2008 at 4:42 PM

  5. lunamoth Says:

    …and by extension, *reading* about writing is even *easier* than writing about writing, which is easier than writing. Heh.

    January 8th, 2008 at 4:44 PM

  6. Patrick Says:

    I dunno. I think readin about cake is easier than reading about writing about writing.

    Unless, of course, the writing about cake includes a recipe with exact measurements, ’cause that can get to be some mighty tedious reading.

    January 8th, 2008 at 5:16 PM

  7. 7. Justine Says:

    Eating cake’s the easiest . . .

    January 8th, 2008 at 5:20 PM

  8. Lisa Yee Says:

    . . . and writing a blog comment on a blog someone else wrote is easier than actually writing, too!

    January 8th, 2008 at 6:45 PM

  9. Mary Elizabeth S. Says:

    writing about writing is indeed easier than actually writing, but it’s not as easy as writing about someone else’s writing about writing (ie, commenting on a blog where someone has written about writing), which just might be the easiest of all.

    except for eating yummy stuff, of course

    ~mary

    (yes, i am procrastinating. i must stop now.)

    January 8th, 2008 at 9:29 PM

  10. lunamoth Says:

    patrick & justine: the cake is a lie! :-P

    January 9th, 2008 at 11:58 AM

  11. Rebecca Says:

    not cake. pie. pie is goooood.

    my world has been flipped upside down b/c somehow the caps have weaseled their way back onto this blog. aaahhhhhh!! :D

    January 9th, 2008 at 8:41 PM

  12. 12. Justine Says:

    Rebecca: What can I say? I got bored. It’s been lowercase since 25 May 2005.

    As the first person to notice, I should prolly give you some kind of prize. Several other people commented without mentioning the change . . .

    January 9th, 2008 at 9:32 PM

  13. Mary Elizabeth S. Says:

    Such are my surveillance skills that I did not notice until now that this post (and it’s comments) contained caps. Aren’t I just so very observant?

    (And yet my first comment was caps-less, which is odd considering I even capitalize my IMs…)

    ~Mary

    January 9th, 2008 at 10:57 PM

  14. rebecca Says:

    ooooh, a prize! perhaps pie. pie pie pie pie pie! :D

    i have gotten too much in the habit of not using my caps. i don’t know if i can handle the switch back….

    January 9th, 2008 at 11:58 PM

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