Comments on: The Downside of Being a Writer https://glendalarke.com/2006/03/downside-of-being-writer/ Sat, 13 Mar 2021 10:37:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2006/03/downside-of-being-writer/#comment-25402 Sat, 01 Apr 2006 08:49:00 +0000 #comment-25402 Exactly anonymous. There are still authors, thank god, but they’re few and far between.

Yes, you and me both.

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2006/03/downside-of-being-writer/#comment-25401 Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:57:00 +0000 #comment-25401 I still have no TV. And no radio. And not much of anything else actually. I still live for the most part on Roti Canai and Teh Tarik (Malaysian soul food.)

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2006/03/downside-of-being-writer/#comment-25400 Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:53:00 +0000 #comment-25400 Editing has to be a glam job though. Imagine reading for a living. And being on a jury (Simon Cowell eat your heat out) and being _paid_ to correct someone else’s mistakes. Wow.

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2006/03/downside-of-being-writer/#comment-25399 Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:50:00 +0000 #comment-25399 I won’t even make it past page one if there’s a silly mistake in it. It just ruins the image.. it’s like you want to correct it but you can’t. It’s like eating something really tasty, and then tasting something you shouldn’t have. You’re like, ew, what was that ? and then you don’t want to eat any more.

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2006/03/downside-of-being-writer/#comment-25398 Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:48:00 +0000 #comment-25398 “The first is that I enjoy reading less.”

That’s true isn’t it ? You start editing the book, and you can see all the tricks in it. It’s like a magician not enjoying a magic show.

Yeah, this is supposed to be a glam job. I’ll try to remember that the next time lighting blows the modem, and I’m wondering where I’ll get the money to replace it from.

]]> By: Glenda Larke https://glendalarke.com/2006/03/downside-of-being-writer/#comment-25397 Tue, 28 Mar 2006 06:22:00 +0000 #comment-25397 Is it? Aargh. Memory playing up again. And geez, I’m not even senile yet. What am I going to be like then?

Anghara – this is supposed to be a glam job?

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2006/03/downside-of-being-writer/#comment-25396 Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:01:00 +0000 #comment-25396 Um.. that quote :

“I love deadlines. I love the sound of them whooshing past.”

is usually attributed to Douglas Adams 🙂

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2006/03/downside-of-being-writer/#comment-25395 Mon, 27 Mar 2006 13:57:00 +0000 #comment-25395 We must be stupid. There’s no other explanation for it 🙂

]]> By: Anonymous https://glendalarke.com/2006/03/downside-of-being-writer/#comment-25394 Wed, 22 Mar 2006 21:40:00 +0000 #comment-25394 Try doing book reviews, and then get onto a jury for an award, and all of a sudden you have a reading pile THIS big, and you have a copy edit to go through and a new book to write and a tax bill has just wiped out your bank account to all intents and purposes…

Sometimes I wonder WHY I thought this was such a glam job (but then I remember that I wouldn’t trade it… if only I could figure out this tax catastrophe…)

]]> By: Bernita https://glendalarke.com/2006/03/downside-of-being-writer/#comment-25393 Wed, 15 Mar 2006 03:18:00 +0000 #comment-25393 I find though, if the book is really good, that I lose my critical eye by about page 30.

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