You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop Quotes

“What is competent writing? Competent writing is writing that efficiently describes ideas and concepts to an audience, using a grammar that the audience can understand.”
― John Scalzi, You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing

“7. What if I send something out and it gets rejected? What do you mean “if”? Take this now and engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different. The rejection is not personal. Unless he or she mentions something specifically about it, the editor is not rejecting you as a human being or your right to exist on this planet. He or she is merely rejecting an article you’ve submitted. That’s all. That’s it. If you can’t handle the idea of rejection, you’re really in the wrong line of work. It’s just part of the business.”
― John Scalzi, You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing

“Or, to put it more succinctly: Writing professionally is a business. If you want to write professionally, you have to approach writing in a professional manner—which is to say, you have to approach it with the intent of actually making money doing it. This means: One: It takes work. Lots and lots and lots of work. Two: Sometimes, work sucks. Three: But you do it anyway because that’s your job. The previous three rules, incidentally, work for all writers, whether they write on staff or write freelance.”
― John Scalzi, You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing

“Or, to put it more succinctly: Writing professionally is a business. If you want to write professionally, you have to approach writing in a professional manner—which is to say, you have to approach it with the intent of actually making money doing it. This means: One: It takes work. Lots and lots and lots of work. Two: Sometimes, work sucks. Three: But you do it anyway because that’s your job. The previous three rules, incidentally, work”
― John Scalzi, You're Not Fooling Anyone When You Take Your Laptop to a Coffee Shop: Scalzi on Writing