June 22nd, 2009 / 1:46 pm
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Yup, true for me most of the time.

30 Comments

  1. June 22nd, 2009 / 6:05 pm sasha fletcher—

      fact.

  2. June 22nd, 2009 / 2:05 pm sasha fletcher—

      fact.

  3. June 22nd, 2009 / 6:10 pm Gian—

      Invisible Work

  4. June 22nd, 2009 / 2:10 pm Gian—

      Invisible Work

  5. June 22nd, 2009 / 6:19 pm Ken Baumann—

      I’m gonna use that.

  6. June 22nd, 2009 / 2:19 pm Ken Baumann—

      I’m gonna use that.

  7. June 22nd, 2009 / 6:21 pm Anthony L.—

      That’s why Salinger had the right idea.

      Of course, if he’s been working like a madman since the sixties, he’s a masochist.

  8. June 22nd, 2009 / 2:21 pm Anthony L.—

      That’s why Salinger had the right idea.

      Of course, if he’s been working like a madman since the sixties, he’s a masochist.

  9. June 22nd, 2009 / 7:42 pm brandon—

      good

  10. June 22nd, 2009 / 3:42 pm brandon—

      good

  11. June 22nd, 2009 / 11:32 pm pr—

      This part if really great-

      eater

      sleeper

      bus rider

      naked girl imaginer

      child reprimander

      internetist

      cougher

  12. June 22nd, 2009 / 7:32 pm pr—

      This part if really great-

      eater

      sleeper

      bus rider

      naked girl imaginer

      child reprimander

      internetist

      cougher

  13. June 23rd, 2009 / 1:20 am KevinS—

      He forgot to list the time he uses to unload the dishwasher and comment on blogs.

  14. June 22nd, 2009 / 9:20 pm KevinS—

      He forgot to list the time he uses to unload the dishwasher and comment on blogs.

  15. June 23rd, 2009 / 1:43 am martin wall—

      do you like this one more than the one tao did a while back? he linked to it on his page recently, it is a very similar write up.

  16. June 22nd, 2009 / 9:43 pm martin wall—

      do you like this one more than the one tao did a while back? he linked to it on his page recently, it is a very similar write up.

  17. June 23rd, 2009 / 2:53 am Ken Baumann—

      I haven’t seen it, could you find a link?

  18. June 22nd, 2009 / 10:53 pm Ken Baumann—

      I haven’t seen it, could you find a link?

  19. June 22nd, 2009 / 11:01 pm Ryan Call—

      also, he forgot to list the time it took him to write this silly essay.

      sorry, i didnt like it much. the latimes off the shelf series could be put to better use than these sorts of articles that expose the ‘secrets’ writers keep.

      i dunno. i feel grumpy.

      i think maybe its the tone of it more than anything that im resisting.

  20. June 23rd, 2009 / 3:01 am Ryan Call—

      also, he forgot to list the time it took him to write this silly essay.

      sorry, i didnt like it much. the latimes off the shelf series could be put to better use than these sorts of articles that expose the ‘secrets’ writers keep.

      i dunno. i feel grumpy.

      i think maybe its the tone of it more than anything that im resisting.

  21. June 23rd, 2009 / 3:12 am darby—

      i had similar feeling, then also similar grumpy question.

  22. June 22nd, 2009 / 11:12 pm darby—

      i had similar feeling, then also similar grumpy question.

  23. June 23rd, 2009 / 4:04 am sasha fletcher—

      well yeah. the tone of the thing was self-satisfied and stupid. probably not even that. i feel like what i just typed is only a small part of the overall tone, and that it’s something too vast for me to really grasp right now.
      but that still doesn’t change the fact that i spend a shit ton of writing time dicking around on the internet and then typing furiously and so on. and so on. or that i don’t space out and work on sentences in my head. i don’t know. whatever.

  24. June 23rd, 2009 / 12:04 am sasha fletcher—

      well yeah. the tone of the thing was self-satisfied and stupid. probably not even that. i feel like what i just typed is only a small part of the overall tone, and that it’s something too vast for me to really grasp right now.
      but that still doesn’t change the fact that i spend a shit ton of writing time dicking around on the internet and then typing furiously and so on. and so on. or that i don’t space out and work on sentences in my head. i don’t know. whatever.

  25. June 23rd, 2009 / 4:12 am martin wall—
  26. June 23rd, 2009 / 12:12 am martin wall—
  27. June 23rd, 2009 / 4:17 am Heath—

      Yeah, Margaret Atwood said this, in a sentence—I don’t have the quote, it was something like staring at the wall from your writing desk for an hour is still work. So, invisible work, right on—but do we need to know all the frivolous details? Grr, did the LA Times pay him to write that?

      OK, the part that sounded like the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker made me laugh.

  28. June 23rd, 2009 / 12:17 am Heath—

      Yeah, Margaret Atwood said this, in a sentence—I don’t have the quote, it was something like staring at the wall from your writing desk for an hour is still work. So, invisible work, right on—but do we need to know all the frivolous details? Grr, did the LA Times pay him to write that?

      OK, the part that sounded like the butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker made me laugh.

  29. June 23rd, 2009 / 4:18 am Heath—

      “Why write, when I can watch a movie on my typewriter?”
      —William Styron

      (I think he was joking.)

  30. June 23rd, 2009 / 12:18 am Heath—

      “Why write, when I can watch a movie on my typewriter?”
      —William Styron

      (I think he was joking.)