101 Reasons to Stop Writing

INSPIRATION
The act of forgetting where you stole your ideas.

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Photo by Benjamin Dudoit of Morguefile.

I particularly like this photograph because despite the proximity of three stories of floor-to-ceiling, beautifully bound books (which may not be accessible, it’s hard to tell), none of the people in the photo is actually reading a book. They’re all composing sonnets about the death of literature. The guy in the corner, in fact, is searching online for a word that rhymes with ‘cerulean’.

Nathan Bransford thinks that “the pensive man in the blue shirt in the middle … is trying to forget that someone may have used an evil albino as a villain in the past”. What do you think the others are doing/thinking/working on? Let me know in the comments.