Comments on: The hard bits

By: Justine

Justine — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:38:36 +0000

Eric: Maybe if you weren’t typing while driving . . .

By: Eric Luper

Eric Luper — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:29:44 +0000

My foulest moods are when I get my best writing done. Very close to the bone stuff. It’s also when I get the most speeding tickets.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:46:51 +0000

Having one of those bad weeks with a book due 8/15. I’ll curse my way through at least 1200 words tomorrow, knowing that you’ve been there too! Thanks!

By: Justine

Justine — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:31:40 +0000

Pamela & Kristine: Here’s hoping it gets better for both of you!

By: Kristine

Kristine — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 20:49:51 +0000

Having one of those weekends, as a matter of fact. Helps to know you’re not the only one.

By: Pamela Freeman

Pamela Freeman — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:53:24 +0000

I think the worst is when you trudge through the bad writing day and know at the end of it that you’re going to have to throw away everything you’ve just slogged over, because it just isn’t working… that was my day, today! (Blurbs are much easier!)

By: AliceB

AliceB — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 00:06:26 +0000

And yet you’re doing it! Bravo.

[Three cheerleading cartwheels.]

By: claudia

claudia — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:49:39 +0000

Aw well I hope this doesn’t last too long!
being only a student myself I have had only mild versions of this, but it sucks all the same.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:52:58 +0000

yes yes yes and yes again. Ugh. Thank goodness for revisions!

By: Kelly McCullough

Kelly McCullough — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:51:50 +0000

Oh yeah. Head-wall, head-wall, head-wall. Repeat as long as necessary.

By: lauren

lauren — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:33:25 +0000

I’m intrigued by the 80/20 rule which says that 80% of productivity comes from 20% of effort. I’m trying to identify what that 20% is so I can goof off 80% of the time. I’ll let you know how it goes.

By: Lizabelle

Lizabelle — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:05:41 +0000

Keep trudging on! I hope it gets easier for you again soon.

(And, you know, thanks for the post, because it helps to know that real, actual, proper published writers go through this, too.)

By: Brent

Brent — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:32:30 +0000

I agree completely. The fact that 95% of my days are “bad writing” days is one reason why I’m an amateur writer and not an acclaimed author/novelist like you. Of course even my best stuff might suck, but I can’t get enough of it WRITTEN to submit.

Thanks for trudging through the hard bits. It means I’ll always have a good book of yours to read when *I* hit a hard bit and don’t feel like working.

By: hillary!

hillary! — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:58:02 +0000

I’ll never be able to understand how you people do it. Maybe that’s why I fing you people more heroic than anyone in the history of ever.

By: the dragonfly

the dragonfly — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:54:24 +0000

i’m with cuileann…writing a novel is amazing to me. i’m always in awe of authors.

thanks for writing through the tough days. we appreciate it!!

By: sara z.

sara z. — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:28:44 +0000

Amen to that, sister. I have been in that place for SO MUCH of this effing book. I am trying to cultivate what monastic tradition calls fortitude. The art of courageous continuing. godspeed.

By: cuileann

cuileann — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:09:22 +0000

No one is ever going to persuade me that writing a book is anything short of a heroic feat.