Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Better than sex

Sex is such an important component of the human condition that that it is bound to figure prominently in the preoccupations of a writer. Indeed, for me there are only seven things in life that are more important than sex. Here's my list:

1 Excavating the perfect verb from the barren wasteland of my brain


2 Igniting the perfect sentence from the arid dross that blankets my thoughts


3 Dragging the perfect paragraph from the wreckage of my tangled sentences


4 Building the perfect chapter from the rubble of my misshapen paragraphs


5 Knitting the perfect first draft from the patchwork of my chapters


6 Throttling the adverbs in my re-writes as I unknot my tortured plot

7 Watching golf on the telly

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4 comments:

  1. Suzan Abrams, email: suzanabrams@live.co.uk10:22 am

    Oh, Pundy,
    so glad to see you back.
    thanks for your words. :-)
    went through a bad patch.
    life just revolving & evolving.
    but better now.
    didn't notice your work-in-progress blog till just now.
    will link all of these up eventually when I open a new blog.
    happy writing!

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  2. Anonymous10:35 am

    That's a pretty impressive list. You are obviously doing a lot of things right. But listen, watching golf on the telly . . . that's what's screwing you up.

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  3. Lee11:15 am

    Me too, so thrilled to have you back.

    Now about that sex and the telly...

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  4. Debi5:41 pm

    Wonderful list - you've hit on the universal here.

    Apart from the golf/tv bit of course ...

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