Wooooooooow. Just wow. Okay, I agree that the general idea of "just write" isn't bad, but that post could not have been more self-congratulatory.
I have a lot of beginning writers, and even seasoned writers chastise themselves, because they can’t rival my page count per day. It's not that they chastise themselves for writing slow or too little; they chastise themselves because they cannot rival the great Laurell one.
so for all of you writers out there that have been watching me post my page count on line and despairing I'm sure they are legion.
Laurell K. Hamilton only did two pages yesterday, I can do two pages. You can, you know, you really can. Happy hunting! Oh gosh, if the great LKH only wrote two pages, then I guess I might try!
Seriously, this reads like self-parody by this point. Maybe she could have typed a little less than two hundred words per minute and spent a little more time proof-reading this (probably well-meant advice) to where it didn't sound like she was setting herself up as the benevolent benchmark to every writer's creative output.
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Date: 2014-07-24 02:16 pm (UTC)I have a lot of beginning writers, and even seasoned writers chastise themselves, because they can’t rival my page count per day.
It's not that they chastise themselves for writing slow or too little; they chastise themselves because they cannot rival the great Laurell one.
so for all of you writers out there that have been watching me post my page count on line and despairing
I'm sure they are legion.
Laurell K. Hamilton only did two pages yesterday, I can do two pages. You can, you know, you really can. Happy hunting!
Oh gosh, if the great LKH only wrote two pages, then I guess I might try!
Seriously, this reads like self-parody by this point. Maybe she could have typed a little less than two hundred words per minute and spent a little more time proof-reading this (probably well-meant advice) to where it didn't sound like she was setting herself up as the benevolent benchmark to every writer's creative output.