Re: Writers on this List
Camille Scaysbrook (verona_beach@geocities.com)
Mon, 23 Mar 1998 23:49:26 +1100
I can't believe all the wonderful writerly sentiments that are being
expressed on this listserv. I feel like I've just discovered all the other
lepers on my island all hiding in the same cave. People get mad at me when
I express just how hard it is; how every step of the way can see utterly
pointless and aimless. But, as a certain author named J.D. Somethingorother
once said, the rewards, when they come, are very beautiful.
Was this the gentle maxim you were looking for (a difficult job for one
whose job it is to expose gentle maxims as the falsehoods they are)?
It's hard. But it's worth it.
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
THE ARTS HOLE
@ http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Theater/6442
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> From: Tim O'Connor <tim@roughdraft.org>
> To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu
> Subject: Re: Writers on this List
> Date: Monday, 23 March 1998 23:04
> Read. Write. Make the effort. It's nearly all you can reasonably do.
> Hell, look at my return address. Is there anything that's NOT a rough
> draft, as we make our ways along? So, it's rough. Rough is better than
> vapor, which is better than a vacuum.
>
> I'm sure there's some local gentle maxim I can end with, but I'm damned
if
> I know what it is.
>
> --tim
>