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   Linguist said, 4 months ago

   A Hemingwad ? Good one Garry !
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   Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago

   More like a herring bone caught in the esophagus. He says he has ideas but he is unsure he can get them out lyrically enough. He should write them down anyway and work on their lyricism later. Ideas, outlines then write. Writing down ideas is paramount. You don’t dare lose them. They may never come back.
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   Only once has the ending come to me first, then the rest of it.
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   Radish said, 4 months ago

   Now he can write a book about his phony baseball career to go along with his phony Afghan story.
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   DylanThomas3.14159 said, 4 months ago

   Think maybe Jeff represents one aspect of Trudeau’s own personality? I’m a commercially published book author, and I sometimes have feelings exactly like Jeff’s. And I know exactly what writer’s block is. It’s easy for armchair critics to scoff ignorantly at Jeff. These problems are real and and they are common. Even though Trudeau is extremely successful, he may still be expressing these concerns through the fictional character of Jeff Redfern.
   

   
   Also through Jeff’s father, Rick Redfern, who’s also a writer. Genetics (or nature) + environment (or nurture) = the way a person turns out in life.
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   Peabody-Martini said, 4 months ago

   Didn’t he come up with whole Red Rascal thing to avoid getting sacked from his job? It’s all about finding the right motivation.
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   Fiendly Neighbourhood Terrorist said, 4 months ago

   Maybe he should dump the Red Rascal and create the Blue Bounder/
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   Borntalkingback said, 4 months ago

   @DylanThomas3.14159

   It’s true we’ve been seeing a lot of reruns lately…
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   old1953 said, 4 months ago

   Writer’s block is your brain saying “DO SOMETHING ELSE FOR A WHILE DAMMIT”.
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   YatInExile said, 4 months ago

   Not only a Hemingwad, but a Steinbork, too!
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    ErpinBurp said, 4 months ago

    Zipper knows the word ‘analogy’?
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    roctor said, 4 months ago

    Ernest Worth Longbeck?
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    montessoriteacher said, 4 months ago

    Anyone could’ve seen the writer’s block excuse coming from a mile away…
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    masterskrain said, 4 months ago

    Having written a couple of books, I know exactly what Jeff is feeling.
    (God, I NEVER would have thought that I would ever say that!)
    Of course, my books are somewhat off the mainstream, but writer’s block still can happen, no matter what the genre!
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    George Alexander said, 4 months ago

    Don’t blame Jeff, Afghanistan and Iraq have been pumped dry, despite General McCrystal’s book, and with Willard’s loss, another war in the near future seems unlikely. Maybe Jeff,like Depredieu, should try moving to Moscow.
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    JAPrufrock said, 4 months ago

    @DylanThomas3.14159

    genotype + environment = phenotype
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