Young Scribbler Prints

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

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

I should be a writer when I grow up...

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

"It's been done, but I don't think it's been redone."

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

'I've worked out that all you need for a summer blockbuster is...'

Will Self deprecation

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

"Bible studies class? We're still writing it."

"Is this the wobbly table? I'll put my screenplay under this leg."

'He's just come back from a 'stress management' course.'

'I have a case of...oh, heck. What's that called?'

Writer's Block

"Baldo, it's great that you want to draw editorial cartoons for the school paper. But effective cartoons comment on important issues. They are not a forum for your personal agenda."

'Dammit, Bubbles, we need this memoir yesterday - write, damn you!'

A pen spewing letters

Recycling Station: Manuscripts.

John Bolton

"It took me 4 years to finish my book!"

False joviality.

A Winter's Day by Mary Lou Fleckner

"It's from your student loan office."

"I imagine the men who wrote the Bible giggled every time they wrote 'I am the lord'."

Scribbling Rivalry.

Monk with a crucifix pen.

"But I have a hard time calling this real writing."

'Fifty-seven authors, and neither one of us was included.'

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

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