Comments on: Storming the Bastille: It’s a Sandcastle http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/05/06/674/ One more bite of the apple. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:51:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: david i http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/05/06/674/#comment-47613 david i Mon, 07 May 2007 20:31:54 +0000 http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/05/06/674/#comment-47613 That link worked? Hot damn. That link worked? Hot damn.

]]> By: David Thayer http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/05/06/674/#comment-47513 David Thayer Sun, 06 May 2007 23:52:30 +0000 http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/05/06/674/#comment-47513 Holy Cow first Roger Clemens bumps the earl from the Yankee roster and now I'm tagged? By a live link. Incroyable. Holy Cow first Roger Clemens bumps the earl from the Yankee roster and now I’m tagged? By a live link. Incroyable.

]]> By: david i http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/05/06/674/#comment-47511 david i Sun, 06 May 2007 23:47:04 +0000 http://davidthayer.booksquare.com/archives/2007/05/06/674/#comment-47511 It's always sad to see someone fold their wings and drop, though Imust say that if a person doesn't have to write, they probably shouldn't. As a career choice, it sucks, and this is the opinion of a number of folks--Anthony Burgess, for example--who were major figures. On the other hand, I dropped past Steve's site, and was a little surprised to see that he thought 3 years of writing without getting much in the way of encouragement was intolerable. Yeah, 3 years is painful and seems like eternity, but I would say that it's probably typical, or even on the short side. I only got to 'yes' after almost five years, and my first book will be coming out six years after I started writing in earnest, and you're in roughlty the same boat. John Gardner had to wait ten years. George V. Higgins had to wait nearly 15 years. This whole field needs a label-- WARNING: Regardless of talent, motivation, or diligence, expect to try with everything you've got for several years, and possibly more than a decade, to achieve minimal external progress. Individual outcomes may vary. In either direction. Ah, well. On another matter, I hope this field will accept HTML tags, as: <a href="http://davidisaak.blogspot.com/2007/05/faye-made-me-do-it-survey.html" rel="nofollow">You’ve been tagged.</a> If that didn't work, hop over to my blog directly, as You're It. It’s always sad to see someone fold their wings and drop, though Imust say that if a person doesn’t have to write, they probably shouldn’t. As a career choice, it sucks, and this is the opinion of a number of folks–Anthony Burgess, for example–who were major figures.

On the other hand, I dropped past Steve’s site, and was a little surprised to see that he thought 3 years of writing without getting much in the way of encouragement was intolerable. Yeah, 3 years is painful and seems like eternity, but I would say that it’s probably typical, or even on the short side. I only got to ‘yes’ after almost five years, and my first book will be coming out six years after I started writing in earnest, and you’re in roughlty the same boat. John Gardner had to wait ten years. George V. Higgins had to wait nearly 15 years.

This whole field needs a label– WARNING: Regardless of talent, motivation, or diligence, expect to try with everything you’ve got for several years, and possibly more than a decade, to achieve minimal external progress. Individual outcomes may vary. In either direction.

Ah, well. On another matter, I hope this field will accept HTML tags, as:
You’ve been tagged.

If that didn’t work, hop over to my blog directly, as You’re It.

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