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[wombat]

And another thing, putting a first draft in a drawer is the right thing to do. Then you come back to it later and make it a second draft. I mean this metaphorically, of course, I am not suggesting you kill a lot of trees to print out a first draft when we have perfectly good computers to store that sort of thing on nowadays.

Nice platypus, Paul.

[dejavroom]

It is writing things of a length substantive enough to be invested where if it sucks, it is a personal judgement upon me. It has been years since I have written something that took more than a few days to toss off and seriously shared it in any way. Anything longer than that and I either stop before it is done or I look at the first draft and shove it in a  drawer or file folder ashamed of myself.

So you don't write, then. That's perfectly fine; most people don't write. Why fix what ain't broke?

[KeithHernandez]

three things:

cocaine probably is better.

i will take yer money.

you should write brokowski.

[Doc]

I don't know jack about writing nor even really putting yourself out there in a dangerous way but I will say with regard to your current (and I'm sure very serious) family circumstances: I'm increasingly convinced that if you're going to change your life then you have to change it every day, not just the days the world isn't taking a shit on you, so there's no point waiting for that moment when everything will be ok and you can get started.

You're a good man 'met, and at the very least you have a strong and entertaining voice, whether this can be parlayed into a career or a hobby or a periodically updated blog I think you should let other people know this too.

[wombat]

if you're going to change your life then you have to change it every day, not just the days the world isn't taking a shit on you, so there's no point waiting for that moment when everything will be ok and you can get started.

This is maybe the truest thing anyone ever said on this board.

To follow up on what deja says... You know, it's OK to change your mind. Just because you used to want to be something at one point doesn't mean you have to beat your head against that idea for the rest of your life. I mean, we all have lots of ideas when we were young that turn out to be not quite what we thought. You might have wanted to be a fireman when you were a kid, till you found out that it doesn't just mean riding in a big shiny truck, it also means running into burning buildings for a living. There's nothing wrong with deciding, upon mature consideration, that that's not for you.

Same thing with wanting to be a writer. It might have looked good in whatever vision you had of it, but if the reality of it makes you miserable, there are a million other things a person could do with their life. And most of them pay better and have higher odds of reasonable success. So, you know, not being a writer is really an OK thing.

[Harlock Hero]

nt

[pmcd9]

C'mon Mike, Be Cormac McCarthy!

[greenkoolayd]

i canned some folks.  this advice applies to all sorts of cares.

[Nabubrush]

The very least you could do is make money for not working. You know, like that other guy.

[smick]

I like simple explanations better than these box in a box all in your head bullshit.

I bet he was building that screaming fort of his and slipped with the sawzall and lopped a couple of fingers off. We're all just waiting for him to finish physical therapy after getting 'em sewed back on and for the pain meds to get tapered down to the point where e can dictate some verbiage..

Oh man:  Onstad in a hospital somewhere with using a stick connected to a helmet to drag around copy/paste vectors of cats and putting out his life's work at a herculean snail's crawl, while elsewhere people on the internet are hell of making fun of his inability to post his life's work with any speed is the best saddest thing.

Noooooooo!

[pmcd9]

I got halfway through Smick's post before I realized he wasn't talking about LFM.

[jay-ell]

It is writing things of a length substantive enough to be invested where if it sucks, it is a personal judgement upon me. It has been years since I have written something that took more than a few days to toss off and seriously shared it in any way. Anything longer than that and I either stop before it is done or I look at the first draft and shove it in a  drawer or file folder ashamed of myself.

Okay, Emily Dickenson, send some of that few-days stuff out and see if it's got wings, dude. Or at least send it over to your lady friend or me or somebody (anybody) for a read-through to tell you if it's worth pursuing.

Yeah, you've got family drama going on, I understand that. Take a bit more time if you need. But seriously, how long does it take to email me a copy of something you've already finished?

[jay-ell]

No ifs, ands, buts or chocolate nuts. Shit or drop the fuck*ng subject, y'know.

This reminds me of a Thing my dad says: "If 'ifs' and 'buts' were fruit and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas."

Also, "Yeah, and IF my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a stagecoach."

[Victoria Waterfield]

This reminds me of a Thing my dad says: "If 'ifs' and 'buts' were fruit and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas."

Also, "Yeah, and IF my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a stagecoach."

She must be quite a large woman.

[arkabee]

This reminds me of a Thing my dad says: "If 'ifs' and 'buts' were fruit and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas."

Also, "Yeah, and IF my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a stagecoach."

my dad would say "you are as useful as tits on a bore."

he has nice tits, though.