tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450078601022572253.post4567463372691817750..comments2024-02-29T03:52:25.601+00:00Comments on Quiddity of Delusion: The Haddock of TruthM.J. Nichollshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12972190103986599079noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450078601022572253.post-45253945358344770692009-12-14T22:58:47.768+00:002009-12-14T22:58:47.768+00:00Heh heh. I'm pretty sure I can't twist you...Heh heh. I'm pretty sure I can't twist your arm about these tutors of mine. Right now, I like being young and naive. It's part of that experience thing you alluded to somewhere.<br /><br />If I leave the course feeling disillusioned and depressed, I'll buy you a Malaysian lager and start dropping acid in the Himalayas.M.J. Nichollshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12972190103986599079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450078601022572253.post-57474135741513835962009-12-14T07:48:48.125+00:002009-12-14T07:48:48.125+00:00Just a general rule of thumb I've picked up:
i...Just a general rule of thumb I've picked up:<br />if advice states "here's how I became a success, follow me" - shun it!<br />If advice states "Hmm, now how can I help you do that?" - it MIGHT be more worth listening to.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14880835293833765181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450078601022572253.post-91171001467638629302009-12-14T07:41:54.844+00:002009-12-14T07:41:54.844+00:00Mark:
Hmmm.
"successful down-to-earth screenw...Mark:<br />Hmmm.<br />"successful down-to-earth screenwriter" - yup, loads of potential there then to become a writer for Coronation street. Get in a few copywriters to advise as well, just to ensure that second mortgage home, kids and a nice dog.<br />I used to get masses of advice from my brother, a very successful CEO. How he wanted me to stop pissing away my life. Decades later, always ignoring his advice, I found my own way - and outearned him big time. More, I had a great fucking time while pissing about - he will never have half the experiences I enjoyed.<br /><br />"long-term London literary agent" - again, hmm. One of those responsible for the great state of publishing we now see?<br /><br /><br />Do you want to earn a living or taste all that life has to offer - and find all that you can offer life?<br /><br />No one helped me get to be chased down a mountain pass by gun toting bandits, most advice at the time would have helped me avoid that. Personally though, I woudn't have missed the experience for anything.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14880835293833765181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450078601022572253.post-35604915630223606032009-12-11T20:56:53.712+00:002009-12-11T20:56:53.712+00:00Hey Mike. Ha! Since you last commented, one quarte...Hey Mike. Ha! Since you last commented, one quarter of the class has done EXACTLY that. <br /><br />My take is: who else are these people going to listen to? Themselves? Their grannies?<br /><br />If you want to become a writer, taking the advice of a successful down-to-earth screenwriter and a long-term London literary agent isn't remarkably stupid. <br /><br />Admittedly, though, I have been made to approach my story from a zillion different angles. It's not so much being moulded into one thing but being fed too many possibilities!M.J. Nichollshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12972190103986599079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450078601022572253.post-27215901915631069372009-12-11T07:06:44.514+00:002009-12-11T07:06:44.514+00:00I'm so glad that your tutors/peers decided to ...I'm so glad that your tutors/peers decided to indulge you in being super critical and negative. Get past this hurdle now and you're set for life.<br />When I went to the Royal College of Art, the head of design had this approach:<br />1. Select a student because you saw something in what they were doing.<br />2. Subsequently, try to rip them down, tear them apart, destroy what they were.<br />3. Rebuild them in the wonderful image you have for them.<br />Unsurprisingly, none that stayed the course turned into whizbang wonderkids.<br />Some did eventually start working for my brother and I, (we'd told the clown to get fucked and continued doing our own thing), but they never really came to much.<br /><br />Something from the old Urbis reviewing days - don't say what they're doing wrong, help them do it right - their way!Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14880835293833765181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450078601022572253.post-22721269749386266312009-12-04T19:35:54.872+00:002009-12-04T19:35:54.872+00:00Good...because that probably smelled really bad.Good...because that probably smelled really bad.I Must Be Offhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12148155129334288438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450078601022572253.post-67586360727684771762009-12-04T16:08:53.813+00:002009-12-04T16:08:53.813+00:00Yeee... no.Yeee... no.M.J. Nichollshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12972190103986599079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450078601022572253.post-32938800455727436462009-12-04T07:45:24.476+00:002009-12-04T07:45:24.476+00:00Sort of like that swamp in The Lord of the Rings w...Sort of like that swamp in The Lord of the Rings with all the festering bodies?I Must Be Offhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12148155129334288438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450078601022572253.post-10513748663641481472009-12-03T20:36:13.024+00:002009-12-03T20:36:13.024+00:00I'm hugging you senseless.
It's true: I h...I'm hugging you senseless.<br /><br />It's true: I have no appetite for the poignant hoo-hah. In fact, I'm reading a book with poignant hoo-hah right now and I'm rolling my eyes endlessly. Roll, roll, roll!<br /><br />I'm glad you're around. Without you (and the others), I would be wading through a swamp of inconsequence.M.J. Nichollshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12972190103986599079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450078601022572253.post-41108793089176217092009-12-03T19:59:05.915+00:002009-12-03T19:59:05.915+00:00Give me a hug. You know, I feel all of that in you...Give me a hug. You know, I feel all of that in your writing. The over-satirizing, the emotionally disconnected whatever you want to call it, the "impossibility of writing" (and I love that phrase). I feel all of that, and I'm pretty sure that's exactly the reason I like your writing so much. I'm so tired of the poignant hoo-hah. The story that tries so hard to say something is BORING. <br /><br />You are never boring. Learn, yes, OK. We all have lots to learn. But I know you start rolling your eyes when you try to write something conventionally dramatic. And I think you should roll your eyes.I Must Be Offhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12148155129334288438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450078601022572253.post-9645027939991645482009-12-01T21:28:05.317+00:002009-12-01T21:28:05.317+00:00Susan Murphy: You intrigue me. I'll venture on...Susan Murphy: You intrigue me. I'll venture onto your path soon for some serious loathing.<br /><br />Watery: My misery is free. Help yourself to my pain crisps.<br /><br />I'm not miserable, actually, merely reflective in an aggressive way. In Scotland we have shout our feelings, since it's rare we ever get any.<br /><br />Thanks for the boost! Viva misery!M.J. Nichollshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12972190103986599079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450078601022572253.post-53010447043493440912009-12-01T18:01:10.856+00:002009-12-01T18:01:10.856+00:00Is it wrong of me to enjoy your misery so much? I...Is it wrong of me to enjoy your misery so much? It's not actually your MISERY I'm enjoying, but that you express it so amusingly.<br /><br />As for satire... seems to me you can become a writer for late night TV and make a fortune... Oh, sure... sellout yadda yadda, but once you're famous you can write whatever you damn well please and people will buy it.<br /><br />(and there are a lot of authors in the required reading piles who's point is 'there is no point'--you're in good company)Hart Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17599570189253229318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450078601022572253.post-89227063111967534032009-12-01T15:34:28.127+00:002009-12-01T15:34:28.127+00:00Hahahaha, I enjoyed that. Follow me, I know where ...Hahahaha, I enjoyed that. Follow me, I know where the truth lies, though I can't quite wrap my arms around it. But I warn you; I'm everything you despise.Susan Murphyhttp://suzmurphy.xanga.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450078601022572253.post-52352600880643390812009-12-01T13:54:33.657+00:002009-12-01T13:54:33.657+00:00Derek: Monomania does rule. I want to drop acid an...Derek: Monomania does rule. I want to drop acid and invade Iraq with you.<br /><br />I haven't quite witnessed "life" in action yet. He is an elusive character who only responds when you boot him in the bollocks or run to Mr. Death.<br /><br />Verity: I miss you too. <br /><br />Thank you for your adequately medicated reassurance. Our time in the Valley of the Skinned Bears is coming.M.J. Nichollshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12972190103986599079noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450078601022572253.post-52786108995625071522009-12-01T05:42:32.121+00:002009-12-01T05:42:32.121+00:00Fuck them. You're a genius. I know it/no one e...Fuck them. You're a genius. I know it/no one else matters. Beyond this I have nothing to offer. Being adequately medicated sucks. I miss you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4450078601022572253.post-5855915258806672082009-12-01T01:16:51.138+00:002009-12-01T01:16:51.138+00:00Don't listen, they only want to tear you down,...Don't listen, they only want to tear you down, including the professor. Don't let thirty years go by and miss out on all that pootie you might have gotten on your book tour. Mono-mania rules. They're right, of course, but those things are easily fixed; life will take care of most issues. All you need do is witness and write, witness and write. The rest is luck. You have to be lucky.Derek Osbornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04635542030499107745noreply@blogger.com