Comments on: Reflections, or All Those Wasted Hours http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/27/reflections-or-all-those-wasted-hours/ The Fundamentals of Our Publishing are Wrong Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:37:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Heather http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/27/reflections-or-all-those-wasted-hours/comment-page-1/#comment-1054 Heather Wed, 27 Dec 2006 22:02:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/27/reflections-or-all-those-wasted-hours/#comment-1054 What I think is funny is that so many of those selfsame readers take inspiration to KEEP writing from your blog. <br /><br />It's not working man. <br /><br />You couldn't even get Meika to stop writing, and if there was ever a soul who needed to back away from the keyboard.... What I think is funny is that so many of those selfsame readers take inspiration to KEEP writing from your blog.

It’s not working man.

You couldn’t even get Meika to stop writing, and if there was ever a soul who needed to back away from the keyboard….

]]> By: Paul Riddell http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/27/reflections-or-all-those-wasted-hours/comment-page-1/#comment-1053 Paul Riddell Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:05:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/27/reflections-or-all-those-wasted-hours/#comment-1053 Lee, of <i>course</i> it's going to get more readership than 99 percent of the E-zines out there. Most E-zines are nothing more than Interweb versions of the old APA zines of the Seventies and Eighties: twenty contributors send in twenty copies of their article/story/tirade to the "editor", who staples each copy into a collection and then mails it back to the contributors. Nobody's going to read a damn thing other than their own stories anyway, so why waste time on getting additional readers?<br /><br />Of course, I'm also not surprised at the readership, considering that the majority are probably people who shoehorned themselves into SFWA during the <i>Pulphouse</i> and <i>Tomorrow SF</i> days and who have nothing else going for them. They won't comment, though, other than to nerk "I don't think that's funny <i>at all</i>." Lee, of course it’s going to get more readership than 99 percent of the E-zines out there. Most E-zines are nothing more than Interweb versions of the old APA zines of the Seventies and Eighties: twenty contributors send in twenty copies of their article/story/tirade to the “editor”, who staples each copy into a collection and then mails it back to the contributors. Nobody’s going to read a damn thing other than their own stories anyway, so why waste time on getting additional readers?

Of course, I’m also not surprised at the readership, considering that the majority are probably people who shoehorned themselves into SFWA during the Pulphouse and Tomorrow SF days and who have nothing else going for them. They won’t comment, though, other than to nerk “I don’t think that’s funny at all.”

]]> By: Lee Battersby http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/27/reflections-or-all-those-wasted-hours/comment-page-1/#comment-1052 Lee Battersby Wed, 27 Dec 2006 00:12:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/27/reflections-or-all-those-wasted-hours/#comment-1052 God, Sean, you random fucking expletive, you. I've only read every nineteenth word on this blog and I'm sick to death of the seriousness of your hilarious tasting of the poor.... :)<br /><br />Does anyone else find it hilarious that a blog about not writing gets more readers over the course of a month than 99% of all the fiction ezines out there? God, Sean, you random fucking expletive, you. I’ve only read every nineteenth word on this blog and I’m sick to death of the seriousness of your hilarious tasting of the poor…. :)

Does anyone else find it hilarious that a blog about not writing gets more readers over the course of a month than 99% of all the fiction ezines out there?

]]> By: Tulie http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/27/reflections-or-all-those-wasted-hours/comment-page-1/#comment-1051 Tulie Tue, 26 Dec 2006 22:29:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/27/reflections-or-all-those-wasted-hours/#comment-1051 This blog rocks! A writer needs to be able to snicker at him/herself from time to time. I hope you *never* run out of things to write about this "hobby" (which does indeed border on an illness at times, at least for this wannabe)! This blog rocks! A writer needs to be able to snicker at him/herself from time to time. I hope you *never* run out of things to write about this “hobby” (which does indeed border on an illness at times, at least for this wannabe)!

]]> By: jb http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/27/reflections-or-all-those-wasted-hours/comment-page-1/#comment-1050 jb Tue, 26 Dec 2006 18:50:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/27/reflections-or-all-those-wasted-hours/#comment-1050 Wait a second. Is this about me? I thought I got it, but now I'm not sure at all. But, then again... Wait a second. Is this about me? I thought I got it, but now I’m not sure at all. But, then again…

]]> By: Laura K http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/27/reflections-or-all-those-wasted-hours/comment-page-1/#comment-1049 Laura K Tue, 26 Dec 2006 17:50:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/27/reflections-or-all-those-wasted-hours/#comment-1049 <i>if you can't handle the idea of some random stranger saying nasty things about you for reasons unknown (or known), stop writing</i><br /><br />I rarely comment on most blogs, but this one...well...I am glad I had swallowed my drink before I read it because it may be the truest thing I've seen in print in days. (It would be weeks or maybe months, but I read Miss Snark, so I get a dose of truth pretty regularly.) if you can’t handle the idea of some random stranger saying nasty things about you for reasons unknown (or known), stop writing

I rarely comment on most blogs, but this one…well…I am glad I had swallowed my drink before I read it because it may be the truest thing I’ve seen in print in days. (It would be weeks or maybe months, but I read Miss Snark, so I get a dose of truth pretty regularly.)

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