Writing about Writers

[carsonshepherd]

Writers are interesting enough to write about? At length? Hours, days, weeks, months in front of a keyboard, interspersed with snack runs, jobs, walking the dog, housekeeping, and lazing around the house, er, um, battling writer's block?

Maybe if it's all done naked...

oh dear god. you just wrote the story of my life in less than a paragraph. except i usually have on boxers and flip flops.

 

[carsonshepherd]

There's something to this.

The couple of times my characters have kinda sorta been writers (in the creative sense), they've had more extroverted careers (advertising, journalism) which would bring them into greater contact with the world.

yeah, and while my writer-character is quite a bit like me so far, it's all rather self-mocking. at least I hope it is.

 

[yui]

As was the case in my stories, it was the emotions that were important. As yui pointed out, that's something we all share.

, Rob!

And QC--yeah, that business about "write what you know" is bullshit. I think what they mean is "write what you feel".

I've decided that people take you more seriously (other than the obvious fact that I am fluff) because you have never had a thread with both your name and "camel-toe" in the title. *nods*

 

[LadyJeanne]

oh dear god. you just wrote the story of my life in less than a paragraph. except i usually have on boxers and flip flops.

This might come in handy, then.

http://www.sportys.com/shoppl/images/5709m.jpg

 

[carsonshepherd]

This might come in handy, then.

http://www.sportys.com/shoppl/images/5709m.jpg

Oh, how i love you

 

[LadyJeanne]

Oh, how i love you

There's also this option.


http://www.sportys.com/shoppl/images/10247l.jpg

 

[Boxlicker101]

Most of my stories are in the first person about the sexual adventures of George Boxlicker . I had to give him an occupation so I made him a successful free-lance writer who sometimes writes on Lit. This works out well because he is fairly well off financially and has the time to run around town eating a lot of pussies. Usually the occupations of the characters are irelevant but sometimes they are important to the plot, to the degree that I ever have plots.

 

[carsonshepherd]

There's also this option.


http://www.sportys.com/shoppl/images/10247l.jpg

that's a little ostentatious for me, actually. I prefer something more understated...

 

[LadyJeanne]

that's a little ostentatious for me, actually. I prefer something more understated...

Understated?


http://www.funehumor.com/images/fun/beercool.jpg

 

[carsonshepherd]

that's the stuff. I'm buying one for my office right now.

 

[Liar]

Understated?


http://www.funehumor.com/images/fun/beercool.jpg

Damn, I wish I had an office, just so I could et me one of those.

 

[sweetnpetite]

I find writing about writers kind of boring.

But I love reading about writers.

I'm working on a romance novel about a repressed romance novel writer.

 

[Boxlicker101]

Understated?


http://www.funehumor.com/images/fun/beercool.jpg

Why is the handle red? That usually denotes a hot beverage.

I like the nice touch of the beer glasses instead of the usual paper cups.