The baby in that ad wants to be a writer. If s/he'd had bathtime with Uncle Frisky, s/he'd be clean and powdered and thinking, "hey, yeah, I can do this." But if the kid had bathtime with Uncle Jon, s/he's dunked in tear-causing shampoo and goes away thinking "NO HAZ TALNT OH NOEZ!!! UNKA JON SUX!!!!".
(For the benefit of our viewers at home, Frisky, being a sickeningly eternal optimist, thinks anyone can write if they just try hard. I, on the other hand, think some people are so wacked in the head that they'll never be readable.)
It's the people who are wacked in the head who have the most interesting things to say!
Folks want the process to be a lot harder than it is, as if writing well were some difficult-to-attain mystic state. So they talk themselves out of their innate ability -- like I said, 3- and 4-year-olds are the greatest storytellers -- and then they seriously fuck themselves up with high school English classes.
I just shipped 5,000 words to the University of the Pacific. Panties should start dropping all over campus any minute now.
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Folks want the process to be a lot harder than it is, as if writing well were some difficult-to-attain mystic state. So they talk themselves out of their innate ability -- like I said, 3- and 4-year-olds are the greatest storytellers -- and then they seriously fuck themselves up with high school English classes.
I just shipped 5,000 words to the University of the Pacific. Panties should start dropping all over campus any minute now.
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