Living the Dream: A Rumination on the Writing Life in One Act
ACT 1:
Writer impatiently waits for rejections from literary agents (’cause what else would there be?) while she starts a new project, a YA fantasy based on angels that’s been in her head for almost a decade.
WRITER: Starting another book, assuming I know what I’m doing… What the hell was I thinking?
Writer looks online for inspirational quotes from successful authors.
GEORGE ORWELL: Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: The first draft of anything is shit.
VINCENT LAM: I felt as if the book was a big muddy rock that I was dragging around a wet field using my bare hands while naked.
JOHN LUTZ: Writing is hard work: it’s like doing homework for the rest of your life.
THOMAS MANN: A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
STEPHEN LEACOCK: Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil and sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy—it’s the occurring that’s hard.
WRITER: Livin’ the dream… livin’ the dream…
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