Saint John wrote:Blueskies wrote:Andrew wrote:Monker wrote:Bingo! You understand. People who have not seriously considered writing a novel simply don't. The more ideas thrown out means it is likely he is going to pick one. The longer he takes to decide on an idea, the less likely it is he will decide. The longer he takes to make a decision to start, the less likely it is that he will start. The more he 'thinks', the less he will 'do'.
Thanks Sigmund.
That was rude. Monker was just saying things due to caring enough to try to help motivate. After all you did write things in 2 threads now on trying to get a barometer of what other people think towards which direction you should go so what he said was appropriate and I and some others thought the same. I also put my two bits on here as well and debated one idea to explore one option out of the choices. Its not that anyone is trying to tell you what to do, its just a matter of discussing the options and giving their own opinions towards what you have laid out to discuss. Certainly what Monker has said here would be a part of the discussion if you are still undecided.
He said it with care so if it was me I would have thanked him for his encouragement, not responded in a self defensive sarcastic manner. Even if you know exactly what he means and don't feel like you need to be told anything, I think you have failed to see that he took the time to say something to motivate for your benefit, not his own.....just like the rest of the contributions from people in this thread that took the time to think about it and write their opinion even if you don't choose to consider any of it.
If you didn't want to know what people think then why did you ask? If you already reached a conclusion on what you wanted to do then why ask? If you don't need motivated then why continue to make comments occassionally thru the years I've been on here that you want to write a book...plan on writing a book? and now with these two threads try to float some ideas out to people to get some indication of what some would like for you to do? I think Monker was right on the money and what I said was correct...you shouldn't be asking us what you should do you should do what you are most passionate about and quit talking about it, quit making excuses for not doing it and just start doing it.
(You get my thanks, anyway, Monker. I too am well aware of what you were saying but its always good to get what you said brought back to mind so thanks for the motivation.
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You just can't help being a fucking windbag of rambling, semi-conscious, mind-numbing analysis, huh? Your tangents are miraculously pointless and lacking. In the end, your posts have the depth of a pile of termite shit. Try getting to the point in less than a thousand words just once. Regards.
SJ that is a post for the MR archives!!!
