Facebook flog - Dec 8 2013

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Link: Dec 8 2013, 3:12
Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's Facebook. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises.

Some words are carved out of air, others from fire, some drowned you in watery weeping, & others feel carved of flesh, like a blood sacrifice to the muse.

Comments

[dagonista.livejournal.com]

Some words are written in ink so purple all other colours cease to exist.

[nialla]

Some writers are full of shit and think it doesn't stink.

[lliira (from livejournal.com)]

And some are made from bowel movements. How does this woman stand herself?

[plastraa.livejournal.com]

Seriously all I can say is "good lord".

[lliira (from livejournal.com)]

And one more thing: is this offensive to people with a history of self-harm? Because it looks like it to me.

[jeza-red.livejournal.com]

Nah, but it's offensive to all the people who had to fight off writer's block and did so without the help of some otherworldly 'muse' patting their head.
>___>

[rodentfanatic.livejournal.com]

I can't speak for everyone with SI issues of course, but it really bothers me as a former cutter, though not this one in particular as much as some other ones she's made ("Bleeding on my Keyboard" comes to mind)

[jessica collett (from livejournal.com)]

'I work hard! I work hard!'

[dagonista.livejournal.com]

Did you hear? She works really hard! You may have missed that subtext because she doesn't really like to talk about it much.

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

Much like the way she never mentions her husband. I don't even know what his name is.

[dagonista.livejournal.com]

I admire the way she keeps her private life so private.

[queenmeow.livejournal.com]

This upcoming novel is going to suck so bad. How can she hold her head up?

[moonbeamdancer.livejournal.com]

I'll agree that sometimes the words just come to you, your brain is in the mood to talk, and other times it's like pulling teeth. Sometimes you gotta leave it alone for a bit and come back. But honey, it happens to everyone, sorry.

[cygnusrex.livejournal.com]

And some are garbled metaphors thinly disguised as a half-hearted declaration of 'look at me, I'm still relevant even though I'm a total Fluffy Bunny'.

[dreamstrifer.livejournal.com]

My friend shared this facebook status and I just sighed.

[killiara.livejournal.com]

How about words that are just words, meant as a tool to convey ideas concisely and precisely?

I swear sometimes I think the advance in the printing industry that stopped putting a firm cap on how many pages could be in a book has doomed the writers of this era to mediocrity. I MISS ZELAZNY DAMMIT. WHERE'S JOSEPH CAMPBELL WHEN WE NEED HIM?

[grackles.livejournal.com]

This x10000

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

"Why don't you try writing, dear woman?"

[lliira (from livejournal.com)]

Yay, someone else is connecting it to the same quote I did!

[guardians-song.livejournal.com]

Naaaaah, the nobrainfilteritis could strike writers of the old generation, too. Some of Heinlein's later works frequently forgot about something called 'the plot' in favor of yammering about polyamory, the decay of society, libertarianism, his specific kinks, etc. for pages on end before confusedly looking at the outline and murmuring, '...You mean spanking nubile blonde teenagers ISN'T the plot?'

It's not a defect in the tools, it's just what happens when the author becomes aware that they can write any dreck they want and still sell like mad and doesn't have a particular attachment to the artistic integrity of their work. The offensive things with Mrs. Hamilton are that she's not honest about it... and that she's incapable of admitting that she is NOT in the 'they'll buy my laundry list' category any more, which drives her to insane conspiracy-theories involving 'the jealous haters'.

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

Who would have known a repetitive description of someone's leopard eyes or giant penis, or possibly a repetitive interior monologue about how everyone else is a jellus hater of oneself and one's sweeties, would come with such aaaagony?

[plastraa.livejournal.com]

Yes this! ^

IF her characters were ever in any danger of anything more than a paper cut or any lasting plot consequences I might (might) not have rolled my eyes so hard when reading her above post.

[lliira (from livejournal.com)]

I can't think of any writer I would accept this post from. I'd think any halfway decent or better writer was yanking everyone's chain. I just hope, for her sake, that LKH was incredibly drunk when she wrote it.

[mitrian.livejournal.com]

There is so much wrong with that alleged sentence, I don't even know where to start.

.....ok, wait, I _do_ know where to start.

"some drowned you in watery weeping"

So.... we, the readers, have been drowned? That IS the past tense. Perhaps she meant to say "drown" instead?

[ravens-shadow.livejournal.com]

I just keep hearing the comedian, Jim Gaffigan's voice in my head, going "This water's more watery than water." Every time I look at that part of the sentence. Every time.

[jeza-red.livejournal.com]

I just came back from a 9h shift in the place I hate with all my soul, but can't leave yet because it pays for my flat and food. It's 2.30 in the morning, and just now I have time to sit down and finish writing the story I've promised someone for Christmas.

...Miss Eternal Creative Agony is not impressing me here.

[deadsong.livejournal.com]

...I don't even. I can't. I'm just walking away now.

[mitrian.livejournal.com]

Oh! So THAT'S why she keeps missing deadlines. She's carving the words. Presumably carving them into or out of something.

Perhaps she should try writing them instead? It's much faster to type than it is to carve...

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

LOL! I love your icon, btw.