23 Comments

1. July 5th, 2012 / 11:37 am David Fishkind—

    it’s been known to happen to the best of us

2. July 5th, 2012 / 12:02 pm A D Jameson—

   I’m working on a pretty sexy new novel right now, and I get aroused a lot while working on it. I think that’s a good sign?

3. July 5th, 2012 / 12:14 pm Rivas—

   Hahhaa?? I don’t think there’s anything to get here is there? Or maybe Stinton’s lethargic cock, maybe – please? Get real, you prick.  

4. July 5th, 2012 / 12:19 pm Erik Stinson—

   who the fuck….

5. July 5th, 2012 / 12:23 pm Rivas—

   If you’re trying to be funny, its actually hilarious in a very Adam Sandler way… felicidades

6. July 5th, 2012 / 12:58 pm deadgod—

   Isn’t there an expression, ‘written/writing with one hand’? 

   Messy multitasking? or preparation threatens the mood?

   Scriptus interruptus?  (–a Good Sign, Adam, if one wants the particular to resonate universally, or at least commonly.)

   Warning:  see a doctor if you write for more than four hours straight.

7. July 5th, 2012 / 1:06 pm mimi—

   boner/bone-ette, please
   for the ladies

8. July 5th, 2012 / 2:00 pm A D Jameson—

   Women can’t have boners? I learn something new every day…

9. July 5th, 2012 / 2:49 pm Anonymous—

   its some kind of personal joke about snack food evryone
   cheese sticks are better

10. July 5th, 2012 / 3:59 pm tyler lebens—

    Didn’t that youtube show with all the over-the-top dishes make a meatlog? Did Huck and Jim ever encounter a ‘meatlog’ on their journey down the mighty Mrs. Sip?

11. July 5th, 2012 / 5:17 pm Richard Grayson—

    I assume you are doing research into 20th century British history and are as spelling-challenged as many young writers seem to be these days.  Here’s a start:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonar_Law

12. July 5th, 2012 / 5:38 pm kjtuyy—

    i will not tolerate your mockery of a.d.

13. July 5th, 2012 / 6:31 pm A D Jameson—

    I think the above are fair questions. There’s lots to explore in the opaque space between writing & boners.

14. July 5th, 2012 / 7:38 pm June Ward—

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitoris

15. July 5th, 2012 / 8:05 pm mimi—

    let’s change ‘bone-ette’ to ‘boner-ette’, might be more apt, fitting

    ‘boner-ette’ as ‘diminutive of boner’

    ‘a boner-ette’ as in ‘a diminutive boner’

    does that help? 

16. July 5th, 2012 / 10:49 pm A D Jameson—

    Since we know Ms. Pac Man’s a Ms. since she wears a bow,
    how bout we go real deep and call it
    a “bow-ner”?

17. July 5th, 2012 / 10:59 pm mdbell79—

    In the same issue of The Paris Review, noticed by Hobart:

    Nicholson Baker: There’s no point in doing it (writing about sex) if it isn’t arousing to some degree… I think it would be really perverse to sit there completely unmoved.

    vs.

    Dennis Cooper: When I wrote Frisk, for instance, one of my rules was that I could never get an erection when I was writing about sex—it was absolutely not allowed. If I started writing something and it got me hot, I’d stop, edit, and switch gears.

18. July 6th, 2012 / 11:27 am mimi—

    aw, that’s adorable, ADJ

    reminds me, there’s the elusive, much-sought-after sub-genre of the “boner” – the “beau-ner”

19. July 6th, 2012 / 11:29 am mimi—

    also, i’m sure there’s a “go real deep” joke to be found/made here, not sure i want to be the one to…

20. July 6th, 2012 / 1:50 pm garret travis—

    reading this makes me suddenly aware and sad that I have not yet experienced the writing boner. new summer goal, I think.

21. July 6th, 2012 / 2:37 pm A D Jameson—

    Let’s have a post/comments thread where everyone has to write the sexiest comment they can, getting boners and bowners and beauners.

22. July 6th, 2012 / 3:32 pm mimi—

    well, i’ve heard of books being called ‘one-handers’ – i.e. reader has to be dexterous enough to hold the book/turn the pages with only one hand

23. July 6th, 2012 / 5:43 pm William VanDenBerg—

    Let’s not forget the boehners.