So you want to be a writer?
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So you want to be a writer?
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Re: So you want to be a writer?
#2This is directly relevant to post that's on the front page right now about getting into ycombinator. You could equally change the poem to be "so you want to be a founder"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32771235
don't be like so many writers,
don't be like so many thousands of
people who call themselves writers,
don't be dull and boring and
pretentious, don't be consumed with self-
love.
the libraries of the world have
yawned themselves to
sleep
over your kind.
don't add to that.
don't do it.Re: So you want to be a writer?
#3 Woke up this morning, and it seemed to me
That every night turns out to be
A little bit more like Bukowski
And yeah, I know he's a pretty good read
But God, who'd wanna be
God, who'd wanna be such an asshole
God, who'd wanna be
God, who'd wanna be such an asshole
- Modest MouseRe: So you want to be a writer?
#4I've read a more terse version of this:
If you want to be a writer write. If you aren't writing irrespective of any external concern, you aren't a writerRe: So you want to be a writer?
#5I've read a more terse version of this: If you want to be a writer write. If you aren't writing irrespective of any external concern, you aren't a writer
I want to be a writer that the lover I never met wants to read
Re: So you want to be a writer?
#6Woke up this morning, and it seemed to me That every night turns out to be A little bit more like Bukowski And yeah, I know he's a pretty good read But God, who'd wanna be God, who'd wanna be such an asshole God, who'd wanna be God, who'd wanna be such an asshole - Modest Mouse
In literature classes I find Bukowski to be an interesting way to gauge your peers. Not as course material mind you, but you can guess a lot about a classmate's attitudes from how they feel (if familiar) about Charles Bukowski and Haruki Murakami. Sort of like how you can tell a lot about certain kinds of tech workers by their taste in books really (granted the yardsticks are different and they have to actually be readers).
Re: So you want to be a writer?
#7Would love to replace writer with programmer and get back to that point in my life.
Re: So you want to be a writer?
#8Would love to replace writer with programmer and get back to that point in my life.
They are uhh pretty different.
Code is not bursting out of me like a ray of sunshine or whatever, but it pays the bills and that is fulfilling enough.
Re: So you want to be a writer?
#9honestly this is such a bad take and it really annoys me. it's okay if it doesn't come easily! some of the best works of art took ages to conceptualize and realize, and the fact bukowski thinks that's antithesis to art shows in his sloppy and unconsidered writing.
Re: So you want to be a writer?
#10honestly this is such a bad take and it really annoys me. it's okay if it doesn't come easily! some of the best works of art took ages to conceptualize and realize, and the fact bukowski thinks that's antithesis to art shows in his sloppy and unconsidered writing.
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