Luann by Greg Evans and Karen Evans for July 17, 2023

Get a life Luann

THANK YOU!! FINALLY another 2-week intermission with Luann, it was overdue.

All lazy, and no play, makes Luann a dull girl.

Aw shucks! From a less than stellar ending last week, we are off to a less that stellar beginning this week. Tara seems to be the writing champ of this arc, followed by Piro. Although Luann has two prize selections to his one.

Oh well. Nothing to do but hang in there.

What else is new, Luann? We all know you’re a bland person. What are you going to do about it?

She actually has lots she can write about; she probably just doesn’t think it’s worth reading. What about the time she saved B’s life?

So start by writing about your crushes, that would be at least 200 pages…

Booooring

So Bets and Gunther are somewhere on the road.

Tiffany is tongue-tied at the Gazebo

And we pivot to Luann who once again can’t think of a thing to write. Again, and again. I fear the writers are on vacation.So Bets and Gunther are somewhere on the road.

Tiffany is tongue-tied at the Gazebo

And we pivot to Luann who once again can’t think of a thing to write. Again, and again. I fear the writers are on vacation.

Is Luann 19 years old or 19 minutes old? Only someone who’s 19 minutes old doesn’t have much of a life. At 19 years old, though, Luann should already have a ton of experiences under her belt. How hard can it be for her to write about at least one experience?

It’s just really odd how Greg and Karen keep presenting their title character as the one with the most boring, uneventful life.

I guess she’s forgotten the crazy camping trip from a few years back, her stage experiences, and the time she got sacked from her job at the daycare…to name a few!

In theory, any piece of writing can be improved by making its second sentence “And then the murders started”.

So if Luann can just come up with a first sentence, add that after it, and the rest should be a piece of cake.

How do archery and parasailing provide Tara material for stories? It seems like the the chaos and dysfunction of her experiences with the family and her own impulsiveness (and maybe off-roading) would give her most of her material,

Luann probably has just as much material as Tara does, she just doesn’t know how to mine it.

Tara writes about herself and Bets uses her phone to do the same thing. To me, that just means more trash in a world that is already filled with no substance cotton candy.

Remember your trip to NYC, Luann? You rode in a taxicab, you took the subway, and you stayed up until ten o’clock!

So G & K – Give Luann a life!

Luann’s problem is not her writing, it’s her Thinking! She needs to spend less time focused in what she doesn’t have (drama/trauma) and more time focused on what she Does have (enjoyable life experiences, if she took the chance to appreciate!)

Personally, I find writing to be pretty easy once I get the first sentence. Of course, baby that time I am about 3/4 done.

If it’s not heroic, it is not worth writing. Really, Writing is not being a heroic writer, it is writing about your imagination?

What about the month-long Valentines Day breakup with Quill?

Don’t leave out your crooked relatives, Tara.

There’s this guy Greg, Greg Evans? Look him up, he can def help you with this.

Seems like a repeat. I had to check the date to make sure this was a new strip and not a rerun.

Blank life?? This comic wouldn’t have lasted 35+ years if she’d had a blank life! Now get writing, Luann!

Luann has tons of experiences she can write about. She just needs to focus herself.

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So… is Tiffany in the pool or did she make it to the Gazebo? lol

Maybe Luann can find some inspiration in her old cassette diary tapes.

By everone above listing out everything Luann’s done in her life, Gerg and Karen dont have to waste a lot of time goin back through the archives themselves. Jus look through todays comments here

How awesome to see that Tara and Luann continue to see each other to write together, even in the summer. Despite her problem with writer’s block, Luann remains serious about becoming a writer. I wonder how much she has already written and if she has do only comedy or has tried something else. I’d really like to see her write a stemapunk sci-fi story. I wonder if they will meet anyone at “Café Kablooie” or just talk to each other. It would be good if Piro comes, or Jack and Nil, or if Tiffany is there to work and decide to tells Luann what’s happening in her house just because she needs to talk about it with someone.

I’m writing my very own epic novel. I’m mainly just making it up as I go.

Well, I do De-CLARE!

Greg and Karen are going to keep Us hanging with the Tiffany arc.

I thought surely they wouldn’t pull something like that, switch to a different arc just as the last one getting kinda “interesting.” But darned if they didn’t.

Guess I should have known. Tiffany was acting “UnTiffany”:like for most of last week. Shudda known _SOMETHING _ was up. Enjoy your “chuckle at OUR expense, Evans Crew. ;-)

So now we’re back to Lu and Tara.

Two things:

Lu? Why don’t you ask your “friend” Tara WHY she didn’t invite YOU to any of those exciting events? Is she afraid you’ll “cramp” her style?

And when will Walt-Piro Shaw up?

Wait for it. Either Walt/Piro shows up, disturbing Luann’s boringly calm pool (so she thinks) or something else. These are the major possibilities of this arc. But this strip is asymmetrical so one never knows.

Commit acrime…that’ll give you something to write about.

Actually, Luann, loving parents, a now-cool brother & sister in law, a puppy can make for as good as stories as Tara has. Add imagination.

Page 2 -275 – Copy paste?

None of this easy. Whether it’s fiction, non, informational, writing takes some embellishment. Some of the commenters here can write, but can they harness, then create characters and situations?

I still think Aaron needs to make a comeback, as well as Delta.

Back to the pool !

Use the AI-powered Chatbot (Bing Chat or Google Bard), Luann! Just give them a few word prompt, they’ll give you plenty to fill a book! (★‿★) Although the hardest part is having to to edit it, though!

Luann should read “Luann Again” to get some inspiration! ;-))They’re in the Fuse, so many another cast member will enter to give her ideas? Please. I can’t see another week of her lamenting her boring life in front of a blank page.

Looks I was right about nothing actually resulting from Tiffany’s weeklong hand-wringing and navel-gazing, huh? Will this week be filler as well?

WWA❤️ED, Luann. If you do, you’ll have enough… adventures… to fill a book in no time flat. Our Muse, Ann❤️Eiffel’s memoirs fill and entire library and they are adding another wing because they just keep coming. BTW, Tara is a hot candidate to become an ❤️Eiffelette. While not in the Hawt Stef or Tattooed Toni or Betts the Bae class to rock a thong bikini, she has the lips for it…❤️ the hair, too, boy howdy. Bet she has a killer pair of gams, too, which will really rock a micro mini little black dress in a cocktail lounge full of Shoog Daddies. So beings a new arc. Luann hooks up with Dearest Ann❤️Eiffel and the memoirs will burn up the pages. No wonder we all ❤️ Ann❤️Eiffel. This strip is sooooo Dullsville without Darling Ann❤️Eiffel. That’s enough for today, Counters… gotta run, hon… ’til tomorrow… same time… same station… Count OUT!

Luann will grow up to be a romance novelist and her pen name will be Joan Wilder.

Page 745?! Reminds me of when Apple first opened and added to their address Bld. 7 or something so people would believe they were a bigger company.

Luann still wants to be a romance writer? She could always draw on her short-lived experience… Write about “Gill,” a handsome, Australian lover boy and his favorite girl “Leann,” the lazy bump-on-a-log who wins his heart with her inner beauty and knack for having an always untidy room.

Just leave out all the long-distance anxiety and break up (or don’t if you can’t manufacture more interesting drama) and give it a happy ending. Spice it up by making “Gill” a wild, exciting Australian stereotype who fights crocodiles and kangaroos. If Quill’s flattered by the portrayal he might even beg Luann to take him back, just like a made-for-TV movie.

Also, it’s humorous how Luann can’t go a few pages without getting writer’s block and begging Tara for assistance… I could see Tara getting exhausted of being taken out of the zone. Maybe she’ll tell Luann to just tell ChatGPT about her life and ask it to do a plot outline for her that would make for an entertaining short story/novel/script, just to get Luann out of her hair.

“It was a bright and warm day. Suddenly…nothing happened.”

That might explain why Luann’s page is blank.

You just gotta read between the lines.

Tara writes about bringing weapons to daycare centers? I wouldn’t.

Luann lives a reactive, not active life. That means her “material” depends on the people around her being interesting instead of her.

Ha Ha! what does that say about US?

Monday – one day check-in with Luann -still being wrote as a boring person. Tuesday – back to all the other characters and their interesting lives!

I used to, and still do, hate essay questions. Unlike straight questions, you’re looking at a sheet of blank paper to fill in, usually with a minimum word count.

Maybe if was better at them, I’d have a better aptitude for random conversation.

745-what does it mean?? The answer to the July 4 (#745) Wordle is IRATE. The word “irate” is commonly used to describe someone who is visibly or intensely angry, often accompanied by a sense of indignation or rage.

Makes you want to buy a copy, right?

I didn’t think my life was very interesting until my daughter began telling her friends about my adventures and asking me questions. They all found it interesting. She has a way of bringing out the best in people.

Luann is alive i don’t know if that’s a good thing.

Luann could write about the wild time her dad swiped a deposit tube from the bank.

Presumably, this is why so many writers write about writers writing.

OKAY – so how do science fiction writers rite?

You wait, little girl, on an empty stage

For fate to turn the light on

Your life, little girl, is an empty page

That men will want to write on

— Charmian Carr, Oscar Hammerstein II, and Richard Rodgers

My creative writing professor actually strongly advised against writing from your experiences, for exactly the reason that Luann is discovering — sooner or later, you’ll run out. (You also come across as self-absorbed, which most people don’t enjoy reading.) Instead, he recommended doing what Luann did earlier (and which folks here castigated her for): write from what you see around you, because then you’ll never run out of material. Watch people around you and get glimpses into their lives as they go about their days, and then talk to them or just try to piece together what they might be thinking as they go about their days until inspiration strikes and you have something to write about.

The lady who wrote GONE WITH THE WIND was so painfully shy she once said she wouldn’t go back to New York City until everybody who lived there had forgotten that she once wrote a book.

Does Tara’s shirt have a Harley Davidson logo on it?

We don’t know where Tara is living. Hopefully not in her car. Luann should get a place to rent with a roommate – maybe Tara.

Geez Luann you got 3rd place in a humor story contest and was asked to present another story (from creative writing class) at the Spring fair. Isn’t all of this enough encouragement to enable you to keep going? And by the way, haven’t you learned anything from these efforts? i.e. that writing is actually WORK?? that you actually have to concentrate and think? that words don’t just magically appear on the page

In a strange twist of events, Tiff is now on a rod trip with Gun, and Bets is gazeboing with Kip.

Blank brain.

A certain degree of imagination helps.

Better or worse than the Tiffany story arc that was becoming, as the kids say, ‘cringe’

I write from what I know and can imagine.

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The life of Luann DeGroot: a study in steady degeneration and back-sliding….