Jay Lake's larval stages of the writer

The wonderful Cat Sparks drew my attention to this one. Bloody funny. Mostly funny because it's so bloody true! And naturally, you could replace the word "American" with any other nationality. In fact, you could just take the word "American" out altogether.

The larval stages of the common American speculative fiction writer

I have long observed that the common American speculative fiction writer (Scriptor americanus s.f.) goes through a number of stages during larval development, prior to...