Comments for sursumcorda.salemsattic.com/post/how-to-write-a-book

Comment #3134

2019-01-14T15:53:34Z

Anyway, I just turned the comments back on. I'll give it another try!

Comment #3133

2019-01-14T15:50:13Z

Thank you, Linda! You're very kind. As for comments--yes, I was getting all kinds of ads and inappropriate solicitations and thought it best to turn things off. Maybe I should try again, but the policing work is constant. To dstb: I remember a comment Malcolm Gladwell made about preferring to write articles rather than books. He said, by the time a book is done and you have to start marketing it, you're so drained by the process you want nothing to do with it. And then, you go to a reading at a bookstore and someone in the crowd finds a single word on page 276 that they don't like and call you an idiot. . .Better to write magazine articles! Maybe good advice, after all.

Comment #3132

2019-01-14T13:20:47Z

Apparently he got too many spam/troll comments and turned commenting off altogether. My recourse is to make my comments into a blog post here. :) You can say something in these comments and he'll probably see it.

Let us know about the workshop! You and Stephan will have something to talk about.

Comment #3131

2019-01-14T13:14:28Z

He doesn't allow commenting? I guess reading comments could be a distraction to his book.

I think this infinite loop, dog chasing his tail, kind of problem is exactly why I don't think I could write a book (though in February I am going to a workshop on writing Children's books).

At least now you have a prospective date for his book.