Wannabe Scribblers Gifts

"We're practicing our bad penmanship. In case we want to become doctors some day."

'As a famous writer, could you do something to help jumpstart my career?'

"I've decided to cut out the middleman and self-publish."

"So start throwing together about 10 novels a week and bring them in on Wednesdays."

"Those are the failed attempts at my first novel."

'What's most depressing is the realization that everything we believe will be disproved in a few years.'

'After three years of writer's block, I began writing about writer's block.'

'Hows it coming?'

Empty landscape containing food and stationery.

'Are you sure this is the only way to get rid of your writers block?'

'Your poetry totally captures the raw, primitive essence of the writing workshops you've attended.'

Anna Burns

Writer's Block

"Well they say everyone has a book in them."

A pen spewing letters

"No wonder you're struggling with your novel. You're not wearing your writer's hat."

'I can't read a word of this essay of yours. Excellent work.'

"We have pills for some of that."

That night, Rose found out that her husband was not only a sleepwalker, but also a sleepblogger.

"He writes all the time - OK, so it's mostly in the margins of library books. . ."

Must be old-timers – You don't see cursive anymore.

What do you think of my idea for non-violent protests of Arizona's onerous immigration laws? Outdated. But - This is the era of MMA - Martial Arts Brawls, pay-per-view battles to submission. If you're mad at Arizona, challenge it to a cage match until one of the other of you breaks your forearm!!! Know your audience. I'll pay $16 to watch you wrestle Arizona's governor.

False joviality.

Monk with a crucifix pen.

"It's from your student loan office."

The Poet

A Winter's Day by Mary Lou Fleckner

Scribbling Rivalry.

'Fine, I'll go to my room, but one day when I'm a famous artist you'll be telling this story as an amusing anecdote!'

'Alvin writes poetry...he he has a great imagination...He imagines someone will actually read that Junk!'

'I think he was born to be a doctor. Nobody can read anything he writes!'

Nurse draws on patient's cast

"You wouldn't like it if I woke up and wrote things down in the middle of the night."

"Ah, to be young again."

'Lately you seem to find fault in everything I do.'