The Prose Posse Gifts

'So you want an advance on your writer's block?'

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

Yoga with Baby

"He was a big man, but he moved like a cat."

Leaning Tower of Pisa

You thought YOU hated YOUR job?

"A kitten for your thoughts."

'Do you know any other poses?'

"Quit moving"

"Stand aside! I'm a doctor of literature!"

Plagiarism

"It's the Garden Street book club. They wanna rumble!"

Content writers.

John Bunyan and Alfred Deakin

The Fledging Author Struggles To Find His Voice. . .

"Do you have any appetizers that are just fun to play with?"

"Really, there was no need to regurgitate the whole thing."

"The key to a good story is to give the protagonist lots of challenges."

Slow reading institute - learn to enjoy adjectives, metaphors, alliteration again.

Their eyes met and his heart soared, like the price of gas before a long weekend.

"You're lucky. My novel went straight to landfill."

"What, did you think I could only do dog pose?"

Feral Goldfish.

Nikolay Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov

Man at work on his book.

'But first, could you loan me some money for film?'

"I'm starting to get worried. How am I going to be adored, parodied, venerated, denounced, redeemed, and ultimately mythologized if I can't get published?"

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Sculptor's model.

I'm also carrying that book around without reading it.

"Oh no, sweetie. I don't play. I just want to look like I do."