101 Reasons to Stop Writing

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11 Comments

1. Lee Battersby:

   Are you kidding? Most of us only survive because we sell books to people who know us

   October 30th, 2006 at 10:13 am
2. Sean Lindsay:

   So that’s the motivation for having a MySpace account.

   October 30th, 2006 at 9:10 pm
3. Lee Battersby:

   That need seems to have passed me by. Seriously, what’s the attraction? I really need to know…

   November 1st, 2006 at 1:22 pm
4. Sean Lindsay:

   Dude, if I understood MySpace …

   November 2nd, 2006 at 5:16 pm
5. oscar:

   what the hell is wrong with “established authors priror to 2001″.. perhaps that you haven’t read any of these authors and so consider them old fashioned, no longer relevant and so on… get off your fat ass and read a good book by an established author. they have become established for a reason… and all of your cutting edge authors (post 2001) must have read something before they reinvented the wheel… you ass

   January 24th, 2007 at 5:17 am
6. Sean Lindsay:

   Oscar, try reading the last paragraph of the post, and keep your “ass” to yourself.

   There’s nothing “wrong” with established authors. But if you’re an unpublished writer and your reading consists entirely of established authors, you don’t know what type and standard of new writing is being accepted for publication these days.

   You can learn from the masters, but if you don’t understand the current market for new authors, you dramatically worsen the already terrible odds of being published.

   You can read Theory #1 for a more detailed explanation. It wasn’t published before 2001, though.

   January 24th, 2007 at 12:43 pm
7. This Writing Life:

   The ReasonsYou Don’t Buy BooksIf you haven’t taken a chance on a new, unproven author in the last five years, why the hell would you expect anyone else to?You Think Anyone Can Be A Writer Putting 50,000 words in nonrandom order in 30 days makes you a ‘writer’ in exactly

   November 30th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
8. Recovering Bad Writer:

   This is one of the reasons why I stop writing whenever I’m silly enough to start. I always end up picking up a really good book, and then realizing how thoroughly incompetent I am compared to real authors.

   February 2nd, 2008 at 4:09 pm
9. Word Pirates:

   I am torn. The person who wrote this is one of those self-satisfied jerks I don’t like to give attention to, and yet at the same time I rather agree with his 101 Reasons to Stop Writing, so far. Especially No. 1:You Don’t Buy Books. One of the things I got from the Word Pirates’ experiment with NaNoWriMo: By the end of the month, the website was bragging that participants had written over one billion words. Imagine if all those people had

   February 4th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
10. Achille van den Branden: 101 reasons to stop writing:

    [...] You don’t buy books.4. You need to average 1,666.666 words per day.6. You don’t read what you’re writing.9. A better [...]

    April 28th, 2008 at 12:37 am
11. تصدعت المرآة: السبب الأول: أنت لا تشتري كتباً!:

    [...] باقتناء كتابٍ لك أنت؟شون لندسي، 30 أكتوبر 2006Reason #1: You Don’t Buy Booksتعليق: ليس ثمة موجبٌ للدهشة!باعتبار أننا حالياً [...]

    April 29th, 2008 at 1:45 am

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