What TV show? I just had a vision of the Real Housewives reading chapters from their respective literary efforts (“It’s a novelization of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ … It was a book before?”)
@ MinorAnnoyance – I think you are responding to the question that is actually a link to the previous post (that’s one of the many – but minor – design defects in this wordpress template). However, this is the TV show that Bill meant.
She may as well leave it inside — the world has all the unfinished but published anyway books (novels or otherwise) it needs already (this huge bibliography goes only up to circa 1915):
I can’t track it down, but fairly recently I saw a cartoon using another variant of that remark as the caption, something with a writer saying something along the lines of “I always knew I had another book in me”. It was some medical context in the drawing, I don’t recall whether surgical or bathroom.
Are they in a coffee shop? Is it giving her the sudden urge to break out a laptop and hog a table and free wifi for half a day while she works on a literary masterpiece?
They say “write what you know”, so a lot of unpublished first novels are about a writer writing his or her first novel. When I was in college, a composition major told me he was working on his first opera which was about a writer writing his first novel. “It’s a metaphor for me writing my first opera” he said.
@tygalilee: Of course, if she were really writing, she wouldn’t need wifi.
As a long-suffering member of a writers’ group that is open to the general public, I can assure you that it is almost always better if that literary effort stays inside them.
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It’s been said that everyone has a novel in them. She doesn’t think she’s that good.
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What TV show? I just had a vision of the Real Housewives reading chapters from their respective literary efforts (“It’s a novelization of ‘Pride and Prejudice’ … It was a book before?”)
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@ MinorAnnoyance – I think you are responding to the question that is actually a link to the previous post (that’s one of the many – but minor – design defects in this wordpress template). However, this is the TV show that Bill meant.
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I think they forgot to draw her putting a laxative in her coffee.
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People who have delusions of author-hood talk about the novel they could write, if only…
She’s honest enough about her own abilities to suspect that even under ideal conditions, that novel’s never going to get finished.
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I’d have expected the squirrel to make a comment about her ruminating.
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I was more curious about her partner – is he stirring his coffee with the wrong end of the spoon?
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Coffee? I thought they were eating alphabet soup.
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She may as well leave it inside — the world has all the unfinished but published anyway books (novels or otherwise) it needs already (this huge bibliography goes only up to circa 1915):
https://archive.org/details/bibliographyofun00cornrich/page/n8
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I can’t track it down, but fairly recently I saw a cartoon using another variant of that remark as the caption, something with a writer saying something along the lines of “I always knew I had another book in me”. It was some medical context in the drawing, I don’t recall whether surgical or bathroom.
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Are they in a coffee shop? Is it giving her the sudden urge to break out a laptop and hog a table and free wifi for half a day while she works on a literary masterpiece?
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Speaking of things that are inside of her, she might want to see a doctor about that lump.
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They say “write what you know”, so a lot of unpublished first novels are about a writer writing his or her first novel. When I was in college, a composition major told me he was working on his first opera which was about a writer writing his first novel. “It’s a metaphor for me writing my first opera” he said.
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@tygalilee: Of course, if she were really writing, she wouldn’t need wifi.
As a long-suffering member of a writers’ group that is open to the general public, I can assure you that it is almost always better if that literary effort stays inside them.
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And there was that one composer with an unfinished symphony.
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Grawlix: Yes! In his twenties with a deliberately unfinished symphony. Anything Schubert could do, he could do.
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I just got the alphabet soup comment.
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