People of the Internet, please, please, please, when you use my website contact form to get in touch with me, please include an address so I can respond to you? Sending me messages with blank "from" lines just means...
a) I can't answer, even if you ask direct questions, and b) I get really frustrated, because I at least try to answer all my mail.
So please, please provide me with an email address so I can answer you. It makes things a lot more stressy when you don't.
That was me, late last night after/while teaching my English 101 class. I was on an endorphine high, so might not have filled the email addy thing out. :) Apologies! My email is mknopf@gmail.com .
I have the printout of your 50 thoughts sitting on my desk near one of my copies of Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style". I say this not to be a totally fan-boy (though I really really liked "Feed"), but because your thoughts are so helpful. In particular, I liked the essay about the distinction between being a writer and between being a novelist. (I am the former, wanting to be the latter.) I've written all my life and even made a living as a reporter, but have yet to complete a work of novel-length. Ambition is a good thing, though I'm a relative dilettante.
Did I say Feed was great? It's the newest, most refreshing thing I've read in a while. Okay, now I need to get back to the law work now...
frustrated
August 19 2010, 18:41:13 UTC 6 years ago
50 Thoughts on Writing
August 19 2010, 19:59:17 UTC 6 years ago
I have the printout of your 50 thoughts sitting on my desk near one of my copies of Strunk and White's "The Elements of Style". I say this not to be a totally fan-boy (though I really really liked "Feed"), but because your thoughts are so helpful. In particular, I liked the essay about the distinction between being a writer and between being a novelist. (I am the former, wanting to be the latter.) I've written all my life and even made a living as a reporter, but have yet to complete a work of novel-length. Ambition is a good thing, though I'm a relative dilettante.
Did I say Feed was great? It's the newest, most refreshing thing I've read in a while. Okay, now I need to get back to the law work now...
Mack
mknopf@gmail.com
Re: 50 Thoughts on Writing
October 26 2010, 15:00:06 UTC 6 years ago