tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post7555708078795235529..comments2023-09-29T05:32:04.308-07:00Comments on StrangePegs: Creative Answers and Creative WritingAndrew Leonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13964775673414653644noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-27716423035378867372011-11-08T14:19:19.502-08:002011-11-08T14:19:19.502-08:00LOL That's pretty good. I should watch him mor...LOL That's pretty good. I should watch him more often, but that would require me watching TV.<br /><br />Elizabeth: Yeah, it is. I would have been more okay with it if the questions had been more related to each other. Or completely unrelated.<br /><br />Beer: Oh, man, how can you possibly choose just -one- pie to go back and have? Unless that's the only fresh baked pie you ever had?Andrew Leonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13964775673414653644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-70567826824698239982011-11-07T05:55:25.815-08:002011-11-07T05:55:25.815-08:00Well, you already know our feelings about NaNo. If...Well, you already know our feelings about NaNo. If you do it, do it for the right reasons. Don't just spew crap onto a page just to say 'Look at me, I wrote a novel!'<br /><br />Also, I love your response to the first question. It seems like kind of an odd question.<br /><br />"If I could go back and relive any time in my life, I'd relive the time I ate fresh baked cherry pie. Because it was a really, really good pie, totally worth reliving."A Beer for the Showerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17029139745335325356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-52308123399514673942011-11-05T15:40:44.850-07:002011-11-05T15:40:44.850-07:00This was a funny post! It's really hard to ans...This was a funny post! It's really hard to answer questions like that without going very philosophical.Elizabeth Varadan, Authorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01708206753256682635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-35093724542197727312011-11-05T14:05:30.001-07:002011-11-05T14:05:30.001-07:00Oh the lies that people tell /hugs. Briane Pagel s...Oh the lies that people tell /hugs. Briane Pagel said I was the "Colbert of blogging". It made me laugh.Michael Offutt, Phantom Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10557969104886174930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-6344765150501216222011-11-04T14:09:45.843-07:002011-11-04T14:09:45.843-07:00Rusty: Mostly, I already made my comment over on y...Rusty: Mostly, I already made my comment over on your site, but I may as well say something here, too. I'm all for people that want to do that. I can't write that way, so I don't really get it. Not having ever been blogging during November before, though, it's rather disconcerting to see so many people just disappear. Like a mass alien abduction.<br /><br />Michael: I don't know about it, either. At least, not from experience. I do know that people that get reviewed by you keep seeing they see a jump in sales after, though, so I was just kind of poking at you because of that. :P<br />As for why people are sending you books: it's probably that same perception that if you review it, people will buy it. Just a guess, though.Andrew Leonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13964775673414653644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-22325570063618923412011-11-04T09:24:28.573-07:002011-11-04T09:24:28.573-07:00Oh I don't know about that (you saying that wh...Oh I don't know about that (you saying that what I review gets a sales spike). I think that maybe one person may buy a book is all--hardly noteworthy and hardly attributed to anything I have to say.<br /><br />I got bogged down with work but I will finish House on the Corner. People just started sending me all these books (I'm serious) and I have no idea why. It's like I got five books in one week for free.Michael Offutt, Phantom Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10557969104886174930noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-58766483401377671872011-11-03T16:29:11.482-07:002011-11-03T16:29:11.482-07:00I don't understand all the Nano hate, I think ...I don't understand all the Nano hate, I think there is huge backlash as it's gotten more and more popular. Overexposure I suppose. That and so many new writers jump in... I suppose it can feel like amateur hour. I don't know. I like it because it was the impetus I needed to actually try my hand at a novel. It wasn't so popular back then, but the idea that I could just write was a real revelation to me. I know there are a lot of folks that are in the same boat as I was back then. I mean, I spent something like 5 years doing research for a novel and it never went anywhere. I wrote about three pages during that time. Three pages! Anyway, it's import for me has lessened every year. I participate now out of a sense of loyalty. I have been taking vacation every year in November to write, now the family understands it's a month that I get to sit and write and ignore them all... they seem more supportive during the month, I have nieces and nephews that participate. <br /><br />Anyway, I suppose I've been seeing more negative discussion about it than I've ever seen before, I just figure it's like arbor day or something, hard for me to understand not wanting to support it.Rusty Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09887821877521181811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-17045313241857466842011-11-03T16:12:26.472-07:002011-11-03T16:12:26.472-07:00Mutt: Actually, we just in the wrong part of DC an...Mutt: Actually, we just in the wrong part of DC and the wrong ethnicity. We had to wait 15-20 minutes with no one in line before they even acknowledged we were there. I suppose they were trying to give us opportunity to leave on our own.<br /><br />I cannot say I disagree with you about NaNo.Andrew Leonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13964775673414653644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7658526372996117205.post-26735832994369157792011-11-03T14:30:14.129-07:002011-11-03T14:30:14.129-07:00Boy you must have been pretty disreputable back in...Boy you must have been pretty disreputable back in the day if they didn't want to serve you.<br /><br />I wish Nano would just go away, but I'm in the vast minority on that. Maybe I should change my answer to if I could go back in time I'd find who invented Nano and push him/her off a cliff to spare us this crap every year. (And like with XMas people start talking about it earlier and earlier all the time.)PT Dillowayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09394481476862013009noreply@blogger.com