Journal Entry
Quote of the Day
July 4th 2008 at 3:57 pm
2. Ever repeat a word so much it starts to lose its meaning? Writing a book is like that, only with 90,000 words.
Jim Hines, July 3rd, 2008, on his blog.
I like this so much I’m stealing it. Attribution will come, Jim, yes, but this enters into my lexicon of clever things to say about writing.
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1. Steve Buchheit on Jul 7th, 2008 at 8:06 am
I think that’s the point where the little toaster “ding” goes off in my head and the business side of the writing mind kicks in and says, “done.”
2. Wyman Cooke on Jul 7th, 2008 at 9:59 am
Dean Koontz gave the best saying about writing, when he had his character describe a book she was writing as “mule puke.”