Writing Woes
I'm thinking of giving this up. It's getting quite boring trying to find words for bland noises. I suppose you could argue that is the skill of the music reviewer. Fine, they can keep it.
Something else I'm getting bored of is advice offered, often without prompt, with regards to The Book (which is about this, if you're struggling to keep up/awake). I've got to the stage with it where I need some unbiased, constructive feedback, but often people read this as 'advice on the futility of trying to get anywhere in publishing'. I was reduced this week to spelling out to one such commenter that given his choice of giving up now, before I'd even really started, or having the balls to give it a go, despite possibly (and I quote) 'completely wasting my time', I'll take the latter, thank you very much.
Something else I'm getting bored of is advice offered, often without prompt, with regards to The Book (which is about this, if you're struggling to keep up/awake). I've got to the stage with it where I need some unbiased, constructive feedback, but often people read this as 'advice on the futility of trying to get anywhere in publishing'. I was reduced this week to spelling out to one such commenter that given his choice of giving up now, before I'd even really started, or having the balls to give it a go, despite possibly (and I quote) 'completely wasting my time', I'll take the latter, thank you very much.
posted by Percy Herbert at
6:51 AM
4 Comments:
I say stick with it young man.... if it makes you happy. You aren't on a dead line, you can please yourself and, at the end of the day, its all about the journey. I mean that in both the literal and metaphoric sense just so you know. ;o)
In other news, how is that dandelion thing going?
Look in a library, look on Amazon, look in a bookshop. How many books can you see?
Right, so all those fuckers got published and many will be crap.
You can do better than that (blog is proof for a start) and you've got something interesting to write about (not just a Bill Bryson whine about how it used to be better 25 years ago - yeah well fuck off beardy if you don't like it, and stop writing bloody books about it). So there's my vote for you're continued writing.
Advice - ha! you have to pay in beer for that.
Hmm. Outside Royalty. Kinda like Peter Gabriel or Brian Ferry dumbing down to Jarvis Cocker lyrics. It just doesn't work.
Middle class Northern kids have a tendency to be either genius or lost. It isn't genius.
Don't give up, P. There are too few things in this life make us happy - unless of course it's not doing so, in which case bin it.
I suppose you could argue that is the skill of the music reviewer. Fine, they can keep it.
Too bloody right. Do they force you not to express your true opinion? Here's the skill, IMO, of the music reviewer: Remembering that sparing the feelings of the few never spares the pay packet of the masses.
Kids, however few in number, look to you to show them the way to spend their pocket money - if you believe it's the truth, tell them to save it and buy some crack instead.
I bet you're real glad I got your blog link back.
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