Comments on: Gary Shtyengart: a novelist-debutante’s handbook http://fictionwritersreview.com/blog/gary-shtyengart-on-how-to-be-a-novelist fiction matters Fri, 18 May 2012 13:03:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: gwen http://fictionwritersreview.com/blog/gary-shtyengart-on-how-to-be-a-novelist/comment-page-1#comment-510 gwen Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:11:58 +0000 http://fictionwritersreview.com/?p=1837#comment-510 I had the same reaction, Preeta -- that this was hilarious but kind of inaccurate -- and I questioned the "stressful," too. If the writing is going well, I think it's neither stressful nor boring. If it's going badly and you're just staring at a blinking cursor for an hour... OK, I'll give him that. I had the same reaction, Preeta — that this was hilarious but kind of inaccurate — and I questioned the “stressful,” too. If the writing is going well, I think it’s neither stressful nor boring. If it’s going badly and you’re just staring at a blinking cursor for an hour… OK, I’ll give him that.

]]> By: Preeta Samarasan http://fictionwritersreview.com/blog/gary-shtyengart-on-how-to-be-a-novelist/comment-page-1#comment-494 Preeta Samarasan Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:50:21 +0000 http://fictionwritersreview.com/?p=1837#comment-494 Oh, this is hilarious! But I disagree heartily that writing is boring and stressful -- stressful, oh yes indeed, but boring?!? It's the least boring thing I know how to do, and isn't that precisely what *makes* it so stressful? Also, um, I'm tired of people flippantly endorsing the overmedication of America. Okay. Now I'm getting off my soapbox(es). I did really think this was funny. Promise. Oh, this is hilarious! But I disagree heartily that writing is boring and stressful — stressful, oh yes indeed, but boring?!? It’s the least boring thing I know how to do, and isn’t that precisely what *makes* it so stressful?

Also, um, I’m tired of people flippantly endorsing the overmedication of America.

Okay. Now I’m getting off my soapbox(es). I did really think this was funny. Promise.

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