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!!!

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

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

[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.

[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.