Mike, I hear you. When I was a civil servant many years ago, I wrote easily
and fluently and it didn't seem to matter what I said, it all went upstairs.
Now that I'm long retired writing is more difficult. I really have to think
about what I say. So it goes and the cold beer sounds good.
Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Spencer" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 1:08 AM
Subject: [Futurework] Re: John Grisham becomes a novelist
>
> "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
>
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