writers...

[fr.novumorganum]

snark (http://atrios.blogspot.com/2008_02_03_archive.html#3669634381309335764)

with all the discussions we've had about writing and so called success, i thought you'd all find this funny...

this is funny because atrios' eschaton has one of the largest daily hit counts on the inter-tubes

also, its really true how often when you tell someone you're a writer they invariably ask one (or all) of these three things next:

1. what do you write (as they look around the cocktail party)
2. can you actually make any money doing that
3. i have this great idea for a book/movie (as you quickly pound your drink and grab another as fast as possible)

[deviadah]

also, its really true how often when you tell someone you're a writer they invariably ask one (or all) of these three things...
I actually get this fourth optional question quite often, which is so fucked up I often get stumped and can't reply:

Why?

:cool:

[m1thr0s]

oh that's easy...thanks to Aleister Crowley we have the perfect response, albeit politically incorrect...

"why? why? why?...came the cackling cry of a thousand imps from hell!"

m1

[Naomi]

hahhahah..

oh and when you're an painter, if they don't ask you to do work for their freelance writing project comic/rpg/fanzine, they know someone who needs free work...even if they've just met you!

Another "What do you paint?"

I'm just going to start telling people I paint satanic erotica or something strange so they'll go away...

[Dragon]

...but you DO paint satanic erotica.....