Comments on: Aspiration: Your Bonus Demotivator

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By: 101 Reasons to Stop Writing : » Stop Writing 2008 Calendar

101 Reasons to Stop Writing : » Stop Writing 2008 Calendar — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:15:28 +0000

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By: Sara Genge

Sara Genge — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 20:24:31 +0000

“It’s more about getting writers to laugh at themselves, long enough to start feeling really depressed.”

Laughing at yourself is good, getting depressed about it–not so much

By: Sean Lindsay

Sean Lindsay — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 15:08:37 +0000

“Isn’t laughing at writers the ultimate purpose of this blog”

It’s more about getting writers to laugh at themselves, long enough to start feeling really depressed.

I think, by your formula, I’m 33, though I felt 45 for most of today. (What I assume 45 feels like, that is.)

I’m 36, which is a particularly uninteresting age to be. At least I live in interesting times.

By: Sara Genge

Sara Genge — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 00:46:22 +0000

What, and give up the chance of laughing at all of us who actually voted? Isn’t laughing at writers the ultimate purpose of this blog (after getting us to STOP WRITING, that is).

Now, seriously, you don’t need to tell us how old you are, just how old you feel

(I have a nifty little formula for calculating real age based on avowed age: up to 30, real age=confessed age, 30-40 real age increases a year for each year that passes, 40-50, increase confessed age by five, 50-60 increase by 7, 60 and on, increase by 10)

By: Sean Lindsay

Sean Lindsay — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:51:05 +0000

Sara, do you think I should have put my real age as one of the options?

By: Sara Genge

Sara Genge — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:42:33 +0000

Ok, so how old are you. Out with it! You can’t have us filling polls for nothing!

By: Sean Lindsay

Sean Lindsay — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:28:41 +0000

I have neither offed myself, nor plan to — suicide is the luxury of the childless. The whole tragically young thing is for people who fear the inevitable repeition and decline of a long career, and the slide into obscurity and irrelevance. But, as your ex-wife clearly built a wall to avoid, you have to have a peak before the decline.

By: Paul Riddell

Paul Riddell — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:14:23 +0000

My ex-wife used to go on and on about how writers need to off themselves before they turn 40, so as to make sure that they die “tragically young”. I could read the subtext, and pointed out that most forty-year-olds can no longer blame their parents for everything they haven’t done, but getting that English degree bought her an additional ten years of absolution from adult responsibilities. Let’s hope that your situation is “neither”.

By: Get Excited! « Kate Moss: Writer

Get Excited! « Kate Moss: Writer — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 21:48:11 +0000

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