It Helps If You Are Completely Bonkers

Mira Prabhu:

George Orwell once claimed that all writers are vain, selfish and lazy…read what Jack Eason has to say in rebuttal of this outrageous statement…my personal opinion based on experience (self and others): most writers are workhorses committed to delivering a unique message….whether you like that message or not, next time you read a book, perhaps you could consider the effort invested to bring it to life? (And I’m certainly not saying there are not lousy books….just that all creative work represents much blood, sweat and tears). Thank you Jack Eason!

Originally posted on Have We Had Help?:

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Vain, selfish and lazy? Speak for yourself Eric Blair aka George Orwell. Most writers I know are none of those things. These days the only people you will come across like that are certain editors and literary agents as well as some professional critics. The latter category, especially the odd one or two who write for newspapers and literary magazines here in the UK, can definitely be said to be vain and selfish. To those two unsavoury qualities I would add a few others ��� condescending, snobbish, scathing and vicious, particularly when it comes to one leading newspaper���s literary critic and his deep loathing of Indies. Compared to him, internet trolls are rank amateurs.

As for the rest of what Eric is quoted as saying ��� writing is a long exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness, he���s perfectly correct. It is. With a few���

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