Comments on: How to Solve This Problem

By: Adrianne

Adrianne — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:33:40 +0000

Yeah, I was reading an article about that after I’d finished the book. I think it would have made me more willing to stop reading and move on. Ah well.

By: Ben JB

Ben JB — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:30:55 +0000

I could be wrong, but I think the Toth book is generally considered to be somewhat untrue.

I don’t know if that makes you feel better or worse or the same (or you already knew it), but there it is.

By: Molly

Molly — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:53:07 +0000

Seriously. As a kid growing up all I wanted to do was make stories up in my head and use all the wonderful words I knew to write them. Then I went to college and suddenly I needed to worry about story arcs and metaphors and character development and themes. I was too scared to write again for a long time. I still can’t write the way I used to when I was 13, which kind of sucks. I think you’ll like this book a lot.

By: Adrianne

Adrianne — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:46:19 +0000

Thanks for the recommend! I’m debating my next book right now: I think you just sold me.

I went to college for the writing workshops, and left college a bitter woman.

By: Molly

Molly — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 22:22:40 +0000

Have you read “Bird by Bird”? I am halfway through it right now. It makes you want to write SO MUCH. Also, it confirmed that the way I used to think writing was supposed to happen, was right. College made me think it was wrong. But it was right.

By: Adrianne

Adrianne — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:44:41 +0000

I think I just needed to start reading Samuel Johnson is Indignant again. And for those of you wondering, it was The Mole People.

By: Rob Carlson

Rob Carlson — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:39:42 +0000

You need to change your environment. Force yourself to go out to a local coffee house with your laptop and a dictionary, turn off your wifi and just crank out 3000 words.