Comments on: How to Write a Book and Why I Write About Writing

By: Funny Stuff

Funny Stuff — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 09:31:06 +0000

I write only when it flows, whether it comes in the morning or it comes at night.
Mostly poetry and sometimes a short story or two. A novel would drain me too much because I only have so much blood to give.

A true writer bleeds his words because they are made out of the passion that comes from somewhere out there and flows through him. A sort of pure energy. If you don’t have this you are faking it and it will be easily uncovered.

People relate when they feel and the more you make them feel, the greater the experience is. I have friends who chew me out when I recite poetry to them, they actually get mad and say I can’t keep this to myself. I will share one day but for now I enjoy easy laughter and silly things, it makes me forget about the horrors of this world.

It makes me forget but it doesn’t desensitize me. My mission is to take others by the hand and let them forget for a brief moment by allowing them to immerse themselves in a period of laughter and the ability to share that moment.

I hate to write so when I do, it’s for a reason and it’s for the passion that flows and who am I to alter its course.

Thanks for reading and mentally listening and hopefully emotionally feeling.

By: Meryl K. Evans

Meryl K. Evans — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:52:23 +0000

Hey, folks! Check out my CommentLuv post. It’s not by me… but you know the person who wrote it. I promise.

Vacation? What’s that? Kind of hard when you have to manage a complicated prize process. -sigh- No one donated plane tickets and a hotel stay for me

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By: Jamie Grove

Jamie Grove — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:48:48 +0000

@Meryl Thanks! You never can tell how help will turn out, but I find that 9 times out of 10 folks are pretty happy.

P.S. Hey, that CommentLuv link in your post looks might familiar. Aren’t you supposed to be on vacation?

By: Meryl K. Evans

Meryl K. Evans — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:23:37 +0000

Your four tips sum up book writing nicely and it’s also nice that you took the time to write such a thorough response, Jamie. Sometimes when we get emails from folks asking how we did this or how we did that… it’s too easy to get snotty in your reply (while thinking “I’ve worked hard to get this far… you expect me to help you shortcut your way there in one long email?”).

I back off from that and try to help. I’m sure I’ve done the same thing to others when I asked them questions. Recently, someone emailed me for advice and said he was too poor to buy books. I shared my advice and pointed to a few great resources. He writes back and said if I have any books I want to toss… to send it his way. Yeah.

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By: Jamie Grove

Jamie Grove — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:54:13 +0000

@vimoh I’ve written many a long email that I’d never turn into a blog post. However, once I found out what the Entity was, I figured all was fair play.

@rjleaman That’s a fair statement. I’m a firm believer in the power of the editorial process. The core material in book two was pretty good (though it was probably a better fit for the stage). Maybe I’ll write a post about it this week.

By: rjleaman

rjleaman — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:29:58 +0000

Nicely done, Jamie. In your place, patronized by that oh-so-amusing Entity, I am very much afraid that my head would have exploded.

How do you know that your novels were “absolutely dreadful,” by the way? Perhaps they simply needed the gentle guiding hand of a gifted editor? Dreadful is a very strong word, after all; and stronger yet when one looks at some of the tripe that does get into print.

By: vimoh

vimoh — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:31:13 +0000

Oh come on! Don’t tell me you never thought “Hmm… May be I will blog this email later” while you were writing it.

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By: Of Note: How Not To Write

Of Note: How Not To Write — Sat, 31 May 2008 23:56:22 +0000

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By: Jamie Grove

Jamie Grove — Fri, 30 May 2008 19:26:38 +0000

@AB It’s tough to listen to someone drone on and one about the “right way.” I’d much rather have someone tell me their failures. It certainly makes me feel better about myself.

Seriously though, there is far more to learn in the interesting mistakes that come along through experimentation.

@Barbara Rock on! I noticed you are both a coffee fan and a martial arts enthusiast. You would like my guru barista. I just posted a video of him demo in Kali knife fighting techniques in the comments of my recent post about Twitter.

@Isle Thanks so much. I’m glad to find another member for the club of We Who Know Nothing and Will Gladly Tell You.

By the way, you’re right about my editing. I’ve left out a lot of details in the events but the “Why Bother” section is pretty much a verbatim copy of what I sent to the entity after their response to the first message.

@RhodesTer No problem and thanks for saying so. I firmly believe that we’re all just a bunch of monkeys clinging to a mudball at the ass end of space, so what have I got to lose anyway?

By: RhodesTer

RhodesTer — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:25:04 +0000

Thanks for sharing this publicly. I, like you and everyone else, haven’t a clue. It’s nice to know that’s okay.