"Arthur Cordell" <[email protected]> quoted John Grisham:
> I had never worked so hard in my life, nor imagined that writing
> could be such an effort. It was more difficult than laying asphalt,
> and at times more frustrating than selling underwear.
Which is why, when I try to compose a post to FW less frivolous than
this one, I discover that I've spent 3 or 4 hours writing a page or
two of text and am desperately in need of a cold beer and a nice
sit-down. And still find mistakes the next day or at least that I
should have done a bit better.
The only novelist I'm personally acquainted with recounts that, while
working as a night watchman, reading a science fiction novel to pass
the hours, he said to himself, "This is terrible. *I* can do better
than *this*!" Went out and did so for ca. 40 years, with much the
same observations after the fact as Grisham's.
- Mike
--
Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~.
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