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   Linguist said, 3 months ago

   You say potatoe, I say potahto !
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   too-zonked said, 3 months ago

   Yeah, I can hear those quotes with most people even when they don’t do that air quote thing with their fingers.
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   Peabody-Martini said, 3 months ago

   How about half a step removed from a “comic” book.
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   Linguist said, 3 months ago

   He’s got writer’s blockhead !
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   Jenn said, 3 months ago

   When Elizabeth made that deal, she should’ve added that she expected to see daily, rough draft hard-copies of his writing.(Typed or handwritten) It’s what my writing class professors expected. Twice a week we had to write in daily-journals, and SHOW that we were writing in them, with the date and title up at the top.
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   masterskrain said, 3 months ago

   Jeff, Alex has broken your code, so just give up now.
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   Tucci said, 3 months ago

   What writing classes never seem to teach is that whether your purpose is professional (i.e., you’re writing to make a living) or incidental to other activities (you’re writing as a sideline, related or unrelated to the work by which you pay your bills), you’re going to have multiple projects going at the same time.

   Whether that’s intentional or involuntary. If you write stuff of any kind in any way at all, you’re going to be exploring other avenues of thought divergent from your immediate priorities whether you like it or not, especially as those deadlines go whizzing past your ears like the Turnpike exit you were supposed to take.

   It’s the reason you learn to keep a notebook (or, in my case, a digital directory) into which you enter the notions, information, runs of dialogue, plot gimmicks, references, and all the rest of what might – or commonly doesn’t – someday become part of a finished work.

   Per Robert A. Heinlein:

   “If you happen to be one of the fretful minority who can do creative work, never force an idea; you’ll abort it if you do. Be patient and you’ll give birth to it when the time is ripe. Learn to wait.”
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   goulo said, 3 months ago

   Annoying that “nev-er” was needlessly hyphenated and split across 2 lines…
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   Richard S. Russell said, 3 months ago

   @Jenn

   It was Joanie Caucus who made the deal; Elizabeth (AKA Sen. Warren) is her boss.
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    beprepn said, 3 months ago

    Dear Goulo – why DID they hyphenate “never?”
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    CasualObserver said, 3 months ago

    @beprepn

    To annoy….
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    John Baranick said, 3 months ago

    So she’s had the laundry right up in front of her for the past 2 days. Does Jeff know about the twins/pregnancy? Can’t remember if she’d told him or not….
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    Adrian Snare said, 3 months ago

    We need a better command of our language (English) and better control of our emotions (extremism).
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    dinkytown said, 3 months ago

    Unfortunately, there any many more “books” than books. I blame Rupert Murdoch.
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    SUSAN NEWMAN said, 3 months ago

    I was under the impression that Joanie demanded that Jeff get a “real” job to pay his room and board.
    That—or do household chores.
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