Writer Friend (7:24 PM):
any suggested cure for writer's block?

Me : Fear.

Writer Friend : ?

Me: I will sing to you if it doesn't go away.

Writer Friend: mental note. don't answer the phone if Mike calls

A Writer Type IM'd me:
yay nurses. way too much fun to write sometimes :D
even if they are 'nameless nurse #64' who will probably never show up again...

I received and email titled "Smutty Fantasy" from a writer I know... here's the body:


Mike, this is the first 9K. When you have the time, can you give me a "don't waste time polishing this, even _terrific_ sex scenes couldn't lift this from infantile banality" if that is what it needs?

While talking to a writer I know recently about a novel that had been written years ago and not looked at since, they had the following to say about their work of yore:

The person who wrote “Novel X” - and i am not sure i know “them” was
ignorant about POV, and inclined to use omniscient, and also left out two bits of foreshadowing


Please note this text was slightly altered to protect the hilarious (and my safety) questions in regard to this persons identity will not be answered.