Comments on: Stay the Course vs Cut and Run http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/31/stay-the-course-vs-cut-and-run/ 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: Zoe Winters http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/31/stay-the-course-vs-cut-and-run/comment-page-1/#comment-5311 Zoe Winters Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:31:13 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/31/stay-the-course-vs-cut-and-run/#comment-5311 I can theoretically go with you on this "when should you stop submitting your work" or trying to "get published" But I'm even shaky on that, because really, if you're going to write anyway, why not improve it and submit it? But as hard as this is to grasp, some writers...like writing. For the sake of the activity itself. (sortof how some women like sex, but I digress.) Like some people paint as a hobby or rollerblade. Why should anyone set a date to "stop writing?" What does it matter one way or the other if they are 92 and try to type on their television set if it's not bothering anyone? And even if it is. People pick their nose too but there's no big push to set a date to quit that. I can theoretically go with you on this “when should you stop submitting your work” or trying to “get published” But I’m even shaky on that, because really, if you’re going to write anyway, why not improve it and submit it? But as hard as this is to grasp, some writers…like writing. For the sake of the activity itself. (sortof how some women like sex, but I digress.)

Like some people paint as a hobby or rollerblade. Why should anyone set a date to “stop writing?” What does it matter one way or the other if they are 92 and try to type on their television set if it’s not bothering anyone? And even if it is. People pick their nose too but there’s no big push to set a date to quit that.

]]> By: Sean Lindsay http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/31/stay-the-course-vs-cut-and-run/comment-page-1/#comment-1092 Sean Lindsay Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:40:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/31/stay-the-course-vs-cut-and-run/#comment-1092 That's what it's all about, Meika, the nice use of individual words.<br /><br />Paul, even that approach spawned two awful sequels. That’s what it’s all about, Meika, the nice use of individual words.

Paul, even that approach spawned two awful sequels.

]]> By: meika http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/31/stay-the-course-vs-cut-and-run/comment-page-1/#comment-1091 meika Sun, 31 Dec 2006 22:42:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/31/stay-the-course-vs-cut-and-run/#comment-1091 nice use of the word nook there nice use of the word nook there

]]> By: Paul Riddell http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/31/stay-the-course-vs-cut-and-run/comment-page-1/#comment-1090 Paul Riddell Sat, 30 Dec 2006 20:25:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2006/12/31/stay-the-course-vs-cut-and-run/#comment-1090 Sadly, the timetable won't work, because the denial shown by most unpublishable writers is right up there with George W. Bush's. If you talk about a timetable, then you'll always find excuses to have "victory with honor", even if it means destroying the lives of others as well as your own. The only phrase to describe one's withdrawal from writing that actually works is "I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." Sadly, the timetable won’t work, because the denial shown by most unpublishable writers is right up there with George W. Bush’s. If you talk about a timetable, then you’ll always find excuses to have “victory with honor”, even if it means destroying the lives of others as well as your own. The only phrase to describe one’s withdrawal from writing that actually works is “I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”

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