Dear Universe:

[stillsostrange]

I am really not that clumsy. This coffee spilling business needs to stop.

Thank you.

Thank goodness for black clothing.

wicked_wish mentions the struggling writer as protagonist and how annoying it is. I agree. Annoying as all get out. (I also agree that Stephen King does well with writers as protagonists. Bag of Bones is my personal favorite.) I think we've all figured out the annoying neurotic parts of writing on our own, thanks. And while I can listen to my friends talk about writing all day long, I really don't need it in fiction. I'm not particularly fond of either grubby apartment/struggling writer stories, or of fantasy-writer-goes-to-fantasyland stories. (The former are boring, the latter make me jealous.)

Of course, I have a great fondness for academics as protags, and I suspect that annoys some people too. Alas and wailaway.

Did I have something else worthwhile to say...? Guess not.

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[madwriter.livejournal.com]

I mentioned on Cherie's LJ that I don't much care for writer-as-character stories either, but later it occurred to me that this premise isn't so much my problem: It's the cliches. Or as she put it, the authors who go, "Look! I'm an author who writes about an author! That's never been done before, hain't it?"

I don't mind a book about a writer if it's not a book about a writer who whines Writing is haaaaaaaarrrrd, but rather, for instance, uses a writer's imagination to see things / events in a somewhat different way than he might otherwise. Just like I wouldn't want to read about a professor who whines Academic politics is haaaaaaaarrrrd, but might use her special training to put a new spin on what she's doing in the book.

Does that make any sense?