Thursday, February 21, 2008

Novels

Dear Axel,
Have you ever written a novel? I want to and need advice.
Sincerely, Clueless Loser

Dear Clueless Loser,
No. I have never written a novel.
If you want advice though, I have one thing to say: You need to write about stuff you care about. I know this person who tried to write like a billion stories and never finished or deleted any of them. Then one day she decided maybe she was going to continue a story, so she opened up all her word documents, and she saw that she had like no space left on her hard drive. Plus all her story beginnings stank on ice.

But then... she found Birger. Birger, the stupid farmer who could never do anything right! It became her purpose to spend valuable time she could be doing something productive on the internet, blogging every stupid little thing that came into her head.

Then she copied all the chapters from the blog onto a word document and she found that she had typed like forty pages, a heck of a lot more than she had ever typed in her life.

At least in one week.

Now, she spends all her time staring at a screen, but she's really happy with what she's doing.

Hope that helped. Sincerely, Axel

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