RE: Fast/Slow Writing

[snurri]

Oh, shut up.

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[susansugarspun.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU.

[jennreese.livejournal.com]

Hooray!

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Bully.

[gregvaneekhout.livejournal.com]

I bet you wrote that quickly.

[snale.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

YOU'RE WELCOME.

(Sorry you're exiled from your office, BTW.)

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, but then I spent three months on revisions.

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

You're AWESOME!

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Another life goal accomplished.

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

Dood, if you're so bored you could always log on to IM to prevent my KILLING MYSELF FROM BOREDOM.

Although I confess if you do, I won't get any work done, but that doesn't seem to be happening, anyway . . .

[tim-pratt.livejournal.com]

Damn it, Greg beat me to that joke!

Because he's a faster writer than me.

[the-flea-king.livejournal.com]

This is Tolbert Law of Writers #4: The best way to start up a bunch of writers talking is to give them a way to talk about themselves. All writers have a speed. Thus, the talking. The neverending talking.

Corollary: Nothing bores more than a writer talking about process.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Heh. The thing is, I'm not even supposed to be here--I'm supposed to be somewhere writing (at my own pace) and being productive and stuff. So I'm going to be leaving ANY MINUTE NOW.

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

Harumph.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Don't take it so hard. It just means he drinks more coffee.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

You're probably right on both counts. (Definitely right on the Corollary.)

[susansugarspun.livejournal.com]

Exiled, with nothing on the internet to read but a lot of people debating the finer points of their writing process.

I mean, I understand that these conversations serve some kind of community-building function. It's like the genre-boundary discussions. I'm just so done with it.

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

I declare you the official ender of internet slapfights - as soon as you get bored they have to end.[1]

Use your powers responsibly.

[1] Except for me, since I am the official starter of all slapfights

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm with you. And I'm SO with you on the genre-boundary stuff. The crap thing is that now that I sold my book to a mainstream house I'll bet I'm going to get asked about it. Bleargh.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

It is a grave responsibility we both possess.

[the-flea-king.livejournal.com]

I assure you that I am correct about the Law as well, for I am a scientist and a man of means, and I have performed Profound Experimentation on this very subject!

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Stop scaring me!

[the-flea-king.livejournal.com]

How scared would you rate this, on a scale of 1 to 8?

*holds clip board expectantly*

[tim-pratt.livejournal.com]

I knew I was going to have to start doing meth...

[squirrel-monkey.livejournal.com]

*snerk* Let's start a community in which people do NOT talk about their writing process. With mandatory updates.