101 Reasons to Stop Writing

May is International Slushpile Awareness Month

 
This Month's Demotivator:

Disclaimer #2

This post is now part of the About This Blog page.

101 Reasons is presented “as is”, and is not intended as a substitute for actual writing advice, no matter how clever you think you are at discerning the message in the meanness.

Information is provided solely for writers to better understand the lameosity of their writing and motives, and the utter, nihilistic futility of the pursuit.

Assumptions as to the godawfuless of any particular writer’s fiction are purely based on the statistical likelihood that said writer couldn’t write a publishable novel if Stephen King handed them a 100 page outline and Salman Rushdie offered to do the second draft.

Sean Lindsay makes no warranties or assertions as to suitability or fitness for any particular purpose, other than the smug feeling you get from thinking that I’m talking to every other writer but you.

Always seek professional evaluation, and if rejections persist, discontinue writing.

 

3 Comments

  1. Torrey Meeks:

    This is the most awesome blog I’ve found in the last five minutes.

    I can’t stand how you’re supposed to have the whole frickin’ world hold your hand on the way to publication, how no one ever has the balls to tell you what a god awful writer you really are, and that the entire publishing industry is expected to, if at any point you feel let down by the whole process, to give you a reach around while telling you to keep going.

    It’s the reason there’s so much awful crap in print these days.

    This blog is a service to humanity. You need the Presidential Medal of Freedom or something.

    I’ll give you a permalink in the meantime.

  2. :)

    Lameosity… is that a technical term? Can I use that in an official capacity in some way?

  3. Technical or not, lameosity lives…

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