Why Isn't This Book Going to Write Itself?

[rowyn]

[ This was from Twitter a few days ago, and I decided I wanted to rescue it before it disappeared into the Twitter-abyss forever. ]

rowyn: Book, I've been writing you for a couple of months now, and I think it's time I stopped being the one doing all the work here.
rowyn: I want you to start writing yourself.
rowyn: I mean, I don't expect you to finish yourself -- I'm still here for you, book. But you could carry some of the load. Write the next scene.
rowyn: I don't think that's too much to ask. I'm sure you can do it. Thanks.
the_gneech: Book: "I'm in the middle of something. Get me a beer?"
rowyn: Dammit, Book! I am not your servant! You -- you need to --

...

*gets Book another beer*
the_gneech: *nods sympathetically* My comics are the same way.
rowyn: I understand, being inanimate objects and all, they've got limitations. But do we have to do EVERYTHING for them?

Comments

[alinsa.livejournal.com]

Tell that book to get it together, or I shall begin threatening it with this shredder here beside me.

Wait, what's that? It's completely electronic? DAMN YOU MODERN TECHNOLOGY!!!

[gavinfox.livejournal.com]

You need a better shredder!

[rowyn]

Nooooo leave Book alone! *defends it*

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Resist it! It's a demon trying to warp your mind around itself! Cast it out...

Onto paper or the electronic equivalence thereof, where we can read it. :)

[alltoseek.livejournal.com]

There's always the delete button. Or the Trash Can.

Or even... format drive bwhahahahaha!

[rowyn]

I think y'all are missing the point that I want the book written *faster*, not *destroyed*. D:

[alinsa.livejournal.com]

I was just trying to encourage it to write itself! Sometimes you have to resort to threats. I can't really think of any good way to provide it positive encouragement.... "Write an extra chapter for your poor frazzled mother and I'll double your rations!" just doesn't seem like it would help. I mean, it's an inanimate object, it doesn't even eat!

(Now, I can encourage you, of course. Not that I really know how, beyond being generally enthusiastic. Wait, I know, I'll double your rations. Your chocolate rations, that is.)

[rowyn]

Mmm, chocolate ... @.@

*goes off to write*

[alinsa.livejournal.com]

Well, hell... if I knew it was that easy...

[alltoseek.livejournal.com]

Write or die, as they say ;-)

[rowyn]

Book: *nestles safely in The Cloud, protected by both offline and online backups*

[alinsa.livejournal.com]

This may actually make you one of the only people I know that actually backs stuff up. (Which frightens me!)

[rowyn]

Most of my backup process is automated -- I write in Google Docs, so Google backs it up. I then post to LJ, so LJ backs it up. I open my journal in LJ Archive sometimes, which gives me a local back up. Which then gets backed up to my backup drive when I run that (which is sporadic but once or twice a month, at least.)

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

My best stories *seem* to write themselves...

[rowyn]

I admit that often it seems like they must be helping, because it goes a lot faster when I'm inspired than when i'm not. c.c

[okojosan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I need to map out what's going to happen at the end of the current story I'm working on so I can just get to writing it. It would be nice if it wrote itself.

[rowyn]

I do have the book all plotted out and stuff! There is no reason it can't write itself (apart from not having any sapience or the ability to type or use language or ... you know. Excuses!)

[octantis.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming that your book and artwork at least don't actively flip you the bird and tell you to fuck off. Mine often seems to. On the worst days, immediately hurls something fragile and screams that I'm not its real dad the moment I poke my head in through the doorway.