This is so much easier than actually writing...

[f4f3]

"Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale's department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time. It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it. All it takes is time." - Kurt Vonnegut

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[f4f3.livejournal.com]

National drunken WRITER I could do... but my drunken writings turn into desperate mood pieces, "with car alarms howling in the neon-rain night," and suchlike

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

I'm sure there's a market for that sort of thing, you know.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

There is, but it doesn't pay hellish well! Although the folk who originally published with me in small press magazines have mostly started selling novels and are finally in line for some proper money. I just couldn't hack the dozen years of living in garrets.

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

No. My friend golden_lotus is trying to make it as a writer (in the US) and it's not easy.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Hmm, one of my friend's had a very well reviewed fantasy trilogy published, which is pretty much as good as you can expect, and he still can't give up his full-time job.

[itchyfidget.livejournal.com]

Really? Jeez :-/