Monetary Report: Week 19
Well, again I have avoided the dreaded $0.00 week. This week I gathered in a cool $3.39.
I can feel your envy.
That brings my total for the year to: $698.21.
I'll also add in some advice. As a writer, try not to get too smart about the "whys" behind things. If you know too much, it screws up your writing. For instance, I've been studying existentialism very closely with my students. As a result, every story idea that comes to me is existential in nature. That's not good. I don't think one should know what kind of story he is writing. He should just tell a Truthful story and let others argue over what kind of story it might be.
As a writer, it's not good to study literary theory. As an "anybody", it's not good to study literary theory. It's pretty useless.
Fitzgerald said that a writer is not the smartest person in the room, just the most observant.
I can feel your envy.
That brings my total for the year to: $698.21.
I'll also add in some advice. As a writer, try not to get too smart about the "whys" behind things. If you know too much, it screws up your writing. For instance, I've been studying existentialism very closely with my students. As a result, every story idea that comes to me is existential in nature. That's not good. I don't think one should know what kind of story he is writing. He should just tell a Truthful story and let others argue over what kind of story it might be.
As a writer, it's not good to study literary theory. As an "anybody", it's not good to study literary theory. It's pretty useless.
Fitzgerald said that a writer is not the smartest person in the room, just the most observant.
posted by Jeff Vande Zande at 7:44 PM
1 Comments:
Don't study literary theory? I wish. Ole Miss has given me until Aug. 15 to complete my Ph.D. If I'm not done by then, I get my walking papers... I've got a bit of my dissertation written, but believe me: now is the time I wish I had studied more of that lit. theory b.s. :)
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