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wholesomelymid

This poll question will take the form of a 4th grade math problem.

Jan 25, 2006 18:45

I'm reading Hemingway On Writing for my creative writing class. He insists over and over again that writing is like making love, and publically sharing works in progress is like being walked in upon whilst fornicating ( Read more... )

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stars_inthe_sky January 25 2006, 19:16:49 UTC

d, I'm thinking, though I'm not specifically experienced in the sex department...

wholesomelymid January 25 2006, 19:21:08 UTC

Thanks!

theo_winterwood January 25 2006, 20:01:31 UTC

C, maybe? I dunno . . . I've done a lot more writing than having sex and I'm certainly driven to write a helluva lot more than I am to have sex.

bleakreality January 25 2006, 20:17:43 UTC

<. Or maybe <=, as I have the incredibly bizarre habit of writing it in my head as I go, anyway.

wholesomelymid January 26 2006, 17:22:22 UTC

Heee! I love you, Blake.

anonymous January 26 2006, 03:20:56 UTC

Sex > writing. Unless, of course, either sex isn't all it's cracked up to be, you're freakishly into writing, or you don't have and drive to procreate.

And as to the java, man, I've gotten THAT error more than I care to count.

nightcomplete January 26 2006, 04:20:38 UTC

(b), for real. But then, I don't like writing.

nightcomplete January 26 2006, 04:21:38 UTC

PS, if Hemingway says sex is like writing... he can't ever have had very much good sex. Poor guy. But then I don't like Hemingway.

wholesomelymid January 26 2006, 17:18:33 UTC

Eh, I'm not really a big Hemingway fan either. I like his philosophy of writing (save for the sex part), but I never liked the whole "Only write 1/8 of what you want to" thing in practice. I generally don't mind minimalism but it takes it too far for my taste.

And, for the record, he is quoted in this book quite often as saying that he spent his days writing for 6 hours, then fishing, eating, drinking, and having sex. That's all he ever did with his life. So maybe the sex wasn't that good, but by the way he's talking, there sure was a lot of it.