Comments on: Piles of Dirt http://www.ninc.com/blog/index.php/archives/piles-of-dirt The international organization of multi-published novelists Sat, 25 May 2013 06:41:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Laura Resnick http://www.ninc.com/blog/index.php/archives/piles-of-dirt/comment-page-1#comment-8930 Laura Resnick Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:39:51 +0000 http://www.ninc.com/blog/?p=6454#comment-8930 I find “go write” comments silly as well as annoying. I mean… who do people THINK buys my groceries, does my laundry, prepares my meals, cleans my bathroom, vaccuums my home, takes my aged car in for repairs, calls the phone company to find out why my internet connection stopped working, packs and unpacks for me, dusts for me (well, okay, even -I- rarely do my dusting), replaces my shoes when I discover they’ve got holes in the bottom, get the car washed, waters and repots the plants, fixes the coffee maker, gets the hot water heater replaced, searches for obscurely-sized lithium batteries to go into various clocks and appliances here, waits in line at the post office, waits in line at the library, waits in line at the bank, gets prescriptions filled, replaces the venetian blinds after they break and fall on my head, figures out a better place to keep the books after towering stacks fall on my head, mends my jacks and skirts, replaces underwear that I wouldn’t want to be caught dead in, and finds research books about things like Lithuanian secret societies and the logistics of horseback archery?

Yes, I would LOVE to have a servant to do all these things for me so I could just “go write” all the time. But, alas, until writing pays about ten times better, I am stuck managing my life myself. Like normal people.

LauraR,
who had two new books released in 2010, despite doing a lot of daily things besides writing

]]> By: Patricia Mathews http://www.ninc.com/blog/index.php/archives/piles-of-dirt/comment-page-1#comment-8927 Patricia Mathews Mon, 29 Nov 2010 22:07:35 +0000 http://www.ninc.com/blog/?p=6454#comment-8927 Jean Lamb calls that “Vacuuming the Cat.”

]]> By: PatriciaW http://www.ninc.com/blog/index.php/archives/piles-of-dirt/comment-page-1#comment-8922 PatriciaW Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:16:26 +0000 http://www.ninc.com/blog/?p=6454#comment-8922 As your later 18 pages showed, you had at least a thought or two about your writing while you were moving the dirt. Sometimes we discount any activity that isn’t simply flinging words on to the page. If a day of dirt-hauling helped you move forward, so be it!

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