Scribble Struggles Pillows

'I see a VERY important note from your doctor. Unfortunately, I can't read her handwriting.'

"Too bad about old Ainsworth. Published and published, but perished all the same."

“She’s in her abstract expressionism phase.”

Instructional guide to scribbling

'The girls must be feeling better...'

'You could do that.' I did

Bob woke up in a pile of notes, some scrawled so quickly that no one could decode them. He remembered nothing of the night before, except... yes, a fleeting glimpse of the writer's moon.

"So, Sandra, what can you tell us about your lovely mood board?"

"Your editor called again to see if the well was still dry."

"Ok, so you beat me at scrabble!"

"Ain't isn't a word, and you know it."

'Don't write on that wall with crayons! It'll show up better on that wall over there.'

"My favorite tea: hot daffodil-infused chamomile with a hint of whiskey. Are you serious? Of course I'm serious! I've been dosing myself with small quantities of poisonous daffodil ever since 1931. You have to build up an immunity if you want to survive in the cutthroat world of Scrabble tournaments."

'To you it's wine, to me, it's my writer's block vaccine.'

Writer: Humour and Tragedy.

'Is this any way to treat a budding genius?'

Phil uses all seven tiles in Scrabble and ascends to heaven

"The trouble with spelling rules is that they impede creativity."

'I'm a writer.' - 'What a coincidence, I'm a reader.'

'You know darn well 'Aaargh' isn't a real word!'

On the cusp of winning the Nobel, Bernie gets exposed by his third grade handwriting teacher.

'Two men having a sword fight with large pen and pencil.'

"Well %$@#(&!! is not a banned word in the &%Xsing UK!"

"Where do you get your derivative ideas?"

'Don't be hard on the boy, dear, I'm sure that Van Gogh's first sunflowers weren't so hot.'

Writer's Block Party

Now that I've written the book, could you put in a good word with the sales team's muse?

Look, dork, I won't ask again. Will you help me use a computer? Maybe. What for? Internet Scrabble. I hear it is possible to play – what is the word? Online? I should like to send data over cyberspace. Through cyberspace.

Bring it on, Scrabble nerd! Want to tell him directly? What do you mean? There's a chat function so you can taunt other online Scrabble players. Just type in your insult and hit send. Have I died and gone to heaven? The internet. And I suspect it' met its match.

Outline; Introduction, Body, Conclusion.

"I don't like playing Scrabble with Gracie! She totally makes up all kinds of crazy words! And they're always in the dictionary!"

'...And then, apparently, it just went berserk when someone insisted on having 'Podcast'.'

Congress today convened a special panel to study use of illegal performance enhancing drugs on the senior Scrabble tour. Members of Congress expressed outrage that such a national pastime could be sullied by fiber doping. Their anger led to an angry exchange with one witness. Hey Congress, here's a four-letter word … Turn off her mic.

Museum Guard Portrait

"If you kids want to grow up to be writers, it's time we give you something to write about."