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WCDT: 2821-2825 (27 - 31 October 2014) Weekly Comic Discussion Thread
Nepiophage:
--- Quote from: ReindeerFlotilla on 28 Oct 2014, 15:58 ---
The lesson, me thinks, is don't wait until you're "good." "Good enough" will do. What's good enough? Make something. show it someone else. Did they understand it? If yes, it's good enough.
Lesson two is, "You'll have time to be good at it when you're dead. Right now, it's time to be doing it."
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Remember, anything worth dong is worth doing badly.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: Nepiophage on 28 Oct 2014, 23:23 ---
Remember, anything worth dong is worth doing badly.
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Was that intentional?
ReindeerFlotilla:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 28 Oct 2014, 23:27 ---
--- Quote from: Nepiophage on 28 Oct 2014, 23:23 ---
Remember, anything worth dong is worth doing badly.
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Was that intentional?
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I'm dyin' here. :-D
Storel:
The usual advice to beginning artists is to draw, draw, draw, because they've got 10,000 bad pictures inside them and they have to get them out before they start getting good. I think the same principle applies with beginning writers, because really, you can't get good at something if you don't practice doing it! Writing bad stories, comparing them to good stories and seeing why they're bad, learning how to make them better, is just something you gotta do. Most authors get dozens of rejection letters before publishing a single story, or write dozens of stories they don't even bother sending to editors before sending one they think is good.
I ran across an interesting quote recently in the Wikipedia article on Louis L'Amour, a writer of Western novels who was very popular from the Sixties through the Eighties:
--- Quote from: Wikipedia ---When interviewed not long before his death, he was asked which among his books he liked best. His reply:
--- Quote from: Louis L'Amour ---I like them all. There's bits and pieces of books that I think are good. I never rework a book. I'd rather use what I've learned on the next one, and make it a little bit better. The worst of it is that I'm no longer a kid and I'm just now getting to be a good writer. Just now.
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This from a man who published "89 novels, 14 short-story collections, and two full-length works of nonfiction" and was considered "one of the world's most popular writers"! Geez, Louis, not long before your death is a helluva time to finally start getting good. Maybe work on your timing in your next life? :lol:
Rghfrgl:
--- Quote from: Skewbrow on 28 Oct 2014, 23:09 ---Meanwhile at the library. Marten is floating in the air, but did he not notice that may be Claire did not want to tell their coworkers?
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I think going by the spirit of what she said rather than the letter, Claire wants to be professional and Marten telling Tai and offering to step down from intern wrangling is the professional thing to do.
Plus it's not like he COULD keep it from Tai. Word was already out and even if it wasn't it'd get to her eventually.
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