Comments on: New Year’s Irresolutions http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/01/04/new-years-irresolutions/ The Fundamentals of Our Publishing are Wrong Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:37:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: SA http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/01/04/new-years-irresolutions/comment-page-1/#comment-1114 SA Mon, 08 Jan 2007 05:01:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/01/04/new-years-irresolutions/#comment-1114 I never thought about making writing NYRs. But you've given me an idea... I never thought about making writing NYRs. But you’ve given me an idea…

]]> By: rochelle http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/01/04/new-years-irresolutions/comment-page-1/#comment-1113 rochelle Sun, 07 Jan 2007 15:46:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/01/04/new-years-irresolutions/#comment-1113 Hey...found you via Scalzi's pimp thread. Thanks for the pointer. I'll fatten up my Bloglines account with your blog. Hey…found you via Scalzi’s pimp thread. Thanks for the pointer. I’ll fatten up my Bloglines account with your blog.

]]> By: Patrick http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/01/04/new-years-irresolutions/comment-page-1/#comment-1112 Patrick Sun, 07 Jan 2007 06:00:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/01/04/new-years-irresolutions/#comment-1112 I'm running a sidebar poll on this topic at my blog, <a href="http://astopatwilloughby.blogspot.com/">A Stop at Willoughby</a>, and so far the results are unanimous.<br /><br />I don't do well with writing-related NYRs. I write when I can, and when I feel I'm in the mood to write. Forcing myself to write for the sake of doing so produces little more than crap. I’m running a sidebar poll on this topic at my blog, A Stop at Willoughby, and so far the results are unanimous.

I don’t do well with writing-related NYRs. I write when I can, and when I feel I’m in the mood to write. Forcing myself to write for the sake of doing so produces little more than crap.

]]> By: Lee Battersby http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/01/04/new-years-irresolutions/comment-page-1/#comment-1111 Lee Battersby Sat, 06 Jan 2007 23:27:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/01/04/new-years-irresolutions/#comment-1111 Come on, Paul, spill: what have you against those fine elder statesmen of the ghetto? Especially Rusch, who works so <i>hard</i> to give us all the opportunity to write Star Wars? Come on, Paul, spill: what have you against those fine elder statesmen of the ghetto? Especially Rusch, who works so hard to give us all the opportunity to write Star Wars?

]]> By: Paul Riddell http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/01/04/new-years-irresolutions/comment-page-1/#comment-1110 Paul Riddell Sat, 06 Jan 2007 01:58:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/01/04/new-years-irresolutions/#comment-1110 You got me in one, Sean. Then again, back when I was writing, I had specific orders that I was to be cremated after death, and my ashes dumped into the ventilation fans in the main hallway at the next Worldcon. The thought of Gardner Dozois, Gregory Benford, and Kristine Kathryn Rusch pulling bits of me out of their neckbeards for weeks has a certain charm. You got me in one, Sean. Then again, back when I was writing, I had specific orders that I was to be cremated after death, and my ashes dumped into the ventilation fans in the main hallway at the next Worldcon. The thought of Gardner Dozois, Gregory Benford, and Kristine Kathryn Rusch pulling bits of me out of their neckbeards for weeks has a certain charm.

]]> By: Sean Lindsay http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/01/04/new-years-irresolutions/comment-page-1/#comment-1109 Sean Lindsay Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:43:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/01/04/new-years-irresolutions/#comment-1109 Oh, "Edgar Harris". That'll work. <br /><br />Don't they say that a pseudonym is the last refuge of a scoundrel? Oh, “Edgar Harris”. That’ll work.

Don’t they say that a pseudonym is the last refuge of a scoundrel?

]]> By: Paul Riddell http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/01/04/new-years-irresolutions/comment-page-1/#comment-1108 Paul Riddell Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:29:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/01/04/new-years-irresolutions/#comment-1108 But what if I write it under a pseudonym? After all, I may have quit, but Edgar Harris never did. But what if I write it under a pseudonym? After all, I may have quit, but Edgar Harris never did.

]]> By: Sean Lindsay http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/01/04/new-years-irresolutions/comment-page-1/#comment-1107 Sean Lindsay Thu, 04 Jan 2007 23:26:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/01/04/new-years-irresolutions/#comment-1107 Noooooooooooo!<br /><br />Paul, you were a beacon, the apotheosis of the 101 Reasons philosophy. If you write so much as a "letter to the editor", ever again, the cause will be dashed as surely as if you dusted off a ten-year-old story, stuffed it into an envelope and wrote "Member, SFWA" on the front. Noooooooooooo!

Paul, you were a beacon, the apotheosis of the 101 Reasons philosophy. If you write so much as a “letter to the editor”, ever again, the cause will be dashed as surely as if you dusted off a ten-year-old story, stuffed it into an envelope and wrote “Member, SFWA” on the front.

]]> By: Paul Riddell http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/01/04/new-years-irresolutions/comment-page-1/#comment-1106 Paul Riddell Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:55:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/01/04/new-years-irresolutions/#comment-1106 It's okay: I'm about ready to make a resolution...to break my previous vow to quit writing, if only to send another entry. (I've got a beaut about the irrational fantasy that saving independent bookstores will somehow save publishing, and it's threatening to eat my brain if I don't write it down.) It’s okay: I’m about ready to make a resolution…to break my previous vow to quit writing, if only to send another entry. (I’ve got a beaut about the irrational fantasy that saving independent bookstores will somehow save publishing, and it’s threatening to eat my brain if I don’t write it down.)

]]> By: Lee Battersby http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/01/04/new-years-irresolutions/comment-page-1/#comment-1105 Lee Battersby Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:31:00 +0000 http://101reasonstostopwriting.com/2007/01/04/new-years-irresolutions/#comment-1105 Resolutions? Only one thing to say:<br /><br /><i>To evoke one's posterity is to make a speech to maggots.<br /> --Louis-Ferdinand C Resolutions? Only one thing to say:

To evoke one’s posterity is to make a speech to maggots.
–Louis-Ferdinand C

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