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Is there anything worse than when someone blogs about how they have nothing to blog about ?  

40Deuce 46M
4633 posts
4/11/2013 4:23 pm

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4/14/2013 12:26 pm

Is there anything worse than when someone blogs about how they have nothing to blog about ?

Yes , lots of things , but it is annoying nevertheless . Regardless that's basically what I'm doing . I have nothing to say but I want to blog for reason unknown .

It rained the other day . When it rains sometimes a couple worms will come up on the sidewalk to avoid drowning . This time for reasons unknown (again) hundreds of them came out . My driveway , sidewalk , the sidewalk at work , they were covered with worms . It was kind of disturbing . But not as disturbing as when I got to the revolving door and saw the worm puree on the floor . It was a wormpocalypse I tell you what .

I thought about writing a blog called "Is it sacrilegious" but I could only come up with two things . Is it sacrilegious to check out your fellow parishioners during a service ?(yes) And is it sacrilegious to thank God when the first bathroom you check isn't occupied when you urgently have to "go" ? (also yes)

I also thought about writing a blog called "Is it racist" because I saw a lady the other day I thought looked exactly like Gottaring but since I didn't have a picture of this alleged doppelganger it wouldn't work . Anyway , the point is I wanted to know if she really looked like Gottaring or if I just thought that because she was foreignese .

Given the number of people there are in the world I'm pretty sure there's at least one person out there who looks almost exactly like you . In college I used to see a dude who was the spitting image of a friend of mine only 8 inches shorter at the library all the time . My friend's wife has a cousin who looks just like me (only Asian) . They call him "Asian (my name)" which seems kind of unfair . They don't call me "white (his name)" .

I read an article about what to do if you have writer's block . It was pretty good , but none of it applies to blogging because its not real writing . Bam ! Take that people who like to do what I like to do !

The fact is you're a terrible writer .

But that's okay , because so is everybody else . There's no such thing as a great writer ; there are only terrible<b> writers </font></b>with great ideas and the patience to hammer them into shape . Vonnegut once said there were two types of<b> writers </font></b>: swoopers and bashers . Swoopers vomit everything down on the page , then edit, edit , and re-edit until it starts to look like coherent language . Bashers work sentence by sentence , only moving on when it's perfect . Most new<b> writers </font></b>think there's a third category that Vonnegut forgot : the beautiful fucking Disney princesses of the literary world , who lightly kiss the page once and fully formed masterpieces spring forth .

Vonnegut didn't mention the princesses , because they don't exist .

Both swoopers and bashers have one thing in common : agony . They agonize over the work again and again and again , until they get it right . Whether you do it sentence by sentence or revisit the whole thing at the end makes no difference . You need something down - anything , even just a single word - that you can refine. Writer's block comes from the panic of potentiality : There's too much you can do , so you do nothing. Push that thought out of your head and put something down on paper that you know , as a fact , is going to be garbage . Whether that's a terrible chapter full of hackneyed twists and cliched dialog , a single sentence with six adverbs and zero nouns , or the lone word "orgasm" in all capitals followed by four exclamation points and a 1 - just give yourself permission to fuck right and thoroughly up . You have all the time in the world to fix it . You're not turning each letter into the English Warden when you're done with it ; you can always change things . And if it really sucks , you can always delete it before anybody sees , burn the keyboard that typed such heresy , and then get so drunk that you yell at the couch for judging you .

And now this because I said I'd always post a picture for my illiterate readers .



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smartasswoman 66F  
35813 posts
4/11/2013 9:02 pm

So, 40, are you a swooper or a basher?

I'm getting confused between writing and cycling, where people are either spinners or mashers.


TwistedVirginOTR 57F
698 posts
4/11/2013 10:56 pm

ooooooooohhhhhhhh! ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! You quoted Vonnegut. Was it good for you too? The next drink I take AND the next cigarette I smoke will now be in his honor...... And O.K., yours too.


40Deuce 46M
5725 posts
4/13/2013 9:47 am

    Quoting  :

I'd say you're still a basher

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40Deuce 46M
5725 posts
4/13/2013 9:48 am

    Quoting smartasswoman:
    So, 40, are you a swooper or a basher?

    I'm getting confused between writing and cycling, where people are either spinners or mashers.
I haven't done any "real" writing in a long time , but I was a swooper when I did

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40Deuce 46M
5725 posts
4/13/2013 9:49 am

    Quoting TwistedVirginOTR:
    ooooooooohhhhhhhh! ahhhhhhhhhhhhh! You quoted Vonnegut. Was it good for you too? The next drink I take AND the next cigarette I smoke will now be in his honor...... And O.K., yours too.
Drink up , but quit smoking - I command it

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wildoats19622 62M
3526 posts
4/14/2013 6:13 am

One of my coworkers made a rather disparaging remark about a tattooed lady at work. He said fucking her would be like fucking a comic book. He retired over a year ago, but whenever I look at her his comment pops into my head. If that wasn't peculiar enough, when I think of his comment my mind goes back to a single panel cartoon in a French magazine. The grease monkey guy is filling the gas tank on a strippers panel truck. The artwork on the truck makes it look like he's putting the nozzle in her ass.

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40Deuce 46M
5725 posts
4/14/2013 12:26 pm

    Quoting wildoats19622:
    One of my coworkers made a rather disparaging remark about a tattooed lady at work. He said fucking her would be like fucking a comic book. He retired over a year ago, but whenever I look at her his comment pops into my head. If that wasn't peculiar enough, when I think of his comment my mind goes back to a single panel cartoon in a French magazine. The grease monkey guy is filling the gas tank on a strippers panel truck. The artwork on the truck makes it look like he's putting the nozzle in her ass.
I like the idea of fucking a comic book

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