Secretly agree, hell. There’s nothing quite so liberating about quitting writing than being able to laugh and point at someone who deserves it, and not being able to do it before because you had no way to tell if that idiot was going to become an editor one day.
In a way, the problem resembles global reproductive trends. The good ones have one child, or no children, while the Great Unwashed breed like they’re the ones solely responsible for the survival of the species.
I can think of numerous writers who wrote well, had one or maybe two novels in them, and then quit — and I wish they had kept going. On the other hand, there are hordes of mediocre writers clogging the system (and even getting published) with craptacular prose.
Other than forcing the literary equivalent of sterilization on those writers, I can’t think of a way to stop them from producing.
The ones to really sharpen your flensing knives for are those who wrote brilliant stuff, once, and now just keep going and going and going and going and going, showcasing their failing faculties to an increasingly despairing and mournful reading world…. (coughBrianAldisscoughRayBradburycoughHarlanElissoncough)
I’ll link to 101 Reasons, even though I have issues with #9 above. If the demand for paper and printer ink drops because you’ve gone and convinced a bunch of hacks to stop writing, won’t that drive the cost of paper and ink UP?
Of course, I’m a writer, not an economist. I don’t even know how to add.
By the way, I came across 101 Reasons via The Rejecter and the wonder that is Meika.
I don’t know how the hell i found your blog…but i nearly fell off my chair rading it. What a magnificent blow to political correctness. I have to be honest and say that i don’t really know if it’s a very clever stunt you’re pulling or what…but it’s entertaining. As the govenor of california say’ ‘i’ll be back
Not only did I fall off my chair but it appears I hit my head..rading it rather than reading it. can’t they (Blogger) lift their game and put a spellchecker in
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Secretly agree, hell. There’s nothing quite so liberating about quitting writing than being able to laugh and point at someone who deserves it, and not being able to do it before because you had no way to tell if that idiot was going to become an editor one day.
In a way, the problem resembles global reproductive trends. The good ones have one child, or no children, while the Great Unwashed breed like they’re the ones solely responsible for the survival of the species.
I can think of numerous writers who wrote well, had one or maybe two novels in them, and then quit — and I wish they had kept going. On the other hand, there are hordes of mediocre writers clogging the system (and even getting published) with craptacular prose.
Other than forcing the literary equivalent of sterilization on those writers, I can’t think of a way to stop them from producing.
The ones to really sharpen your flensing knives for are those who wrote brilliant stuff, once, and now just keep going and going and going and going and going, showcasing their failing faculties to an increasingly despairing and mournful reading world…. (coughBrianAldisscoughRayBradburycoughHarlanElissoncough)
If I promise to link to you, will you promise to stop writing?
“coughHarlanElissoncough”
And that version isn’t even TM.
Ms Diva, if you link to me, I promise I’ll get someone else to stop writing. Maybe even two of them.
Done Sir.
But don’t read my blog. I’m mediocre at best as a writer. You may just get me to be one of those two people to stop…
Evry els shood stop riting. Not me thouh ‘cuz I am rite!1
im serius!
I’ll link to 101 Reasons, even though I have issues with #9 above. If the demand for paper and printer ink drops because you’ve gone and convinced a bunch of hacks to stop writing, won’t that drive the cost of paper and ink UP?
Of course, I’m a writer, not an economist. I don’t even know how to add.
By the way, I came across 101 Reasons via The Rejecter and the wonder that is Meika.
I don’t know how the hell i found your blog…but i nearly fell off my chair rading it. What a magnificent blow to political correctness. I have to be honest and say that i don’t really know if it’s a very clever stunt you’re pulling or what…but it’s entertaining. As the govenor of california say’ ‘i’ll be back
Not only did I fall off my chair but it appears I hit my head..rading it rather than reading it. can’t they (Blogger) lift their game and put a spellchecker in