# \[Rant\] The Day I Quite Writing **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 27, 2016, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-the-day-i-quite-writing/758501 "2016-06-27T05:05:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-the-day-i-quite-writing/758501/21 "2016-06-27T17:23:36Z")
I wrote a story once. Turned out pretty good IMO, but when it came to the ending, I couldn’t think of a ---
**Author:** ![Whiskey\_Dickens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc348/32.png) [@Whiskey\_Dickens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whiskey_Dickens)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-the-day-i-quite-writing/758501/22 "2016-06-27T17:47:52Z")
This thread showed up in my quilting feed. I am interested to hear about this quilt writing Chihuahua. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-the-day-i-quite-writing/758501/23 "2016-06-27T20:44:23Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > . . . Any advice for someone thinking of dipping his toes into fiction? A very dear friend gave me the best advice ever for drawing. He said, “Lay down about a thousand pencil lines, ink somewhere in the middle, and erase the pencils.” This works for fiction. Write. Just…write it!. Spew it out onto the page. It doesn’t have to be any good. First drafts are permitted to suck. This works, because revising is ten times easier than composing! Also, writing is “caloric.” Intake is correlated to output. So read a lot; it will improve your writing. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-the-day-i-quite-writing/758501/24 "2016-06-27T21:03:05Z")
“What can we do for the young who aspire to be writers?” “Dissuade them”. Jorge Luis Borges ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2016, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-the-day-i-quite-writing/758501/25 "2016-06-27T23:18:46Z")
Well, in the words of the immortal poet, siks munce ago I kudnt evin spel injineer, and now Iar wun. But I just wanted to note that not only can I not spell when writing, I don’t spell when reading either. I didn’t see anything wrong with the title, so I read on until someone explained it to me. Words I got wrong first time: imortal, knote. The first was a spelling mistake, the second was a typo. ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-the-day-i-quite-writing/758501/26 "2016-06-28T00:04:30Z")
My contribution to great literature is strictly though Amazon purchases. > [@Melbourne](#): > > But I just wanted to note that not only can I not spell when writing, I don’t spell when reading either. I didn’t see anything wrong with the title, so I read on until someone explained it to me. Thank god I’m not the only one, and I teach English as a foreign language. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-the-day-i-quite-writing/758501/27 "2016-06-28T07:44:24Z")
> [@Melbourne](#): > > But I just wanted to note that not only can I not spell when writing, I don’t spell when reading either. > [@TokyoBayer](#): > > Thank god I’m not the only one, and I teach English as a foreign language. :eek: Wish I could say the same. Years and years of helping bad spellers and correcting other people’s writings, and now at work we keep getting corporate announcements in Spanglish - and I’m not allowed to correct them! There is no such thing as a Letters Degree, in English it would be a Degree in Philosophy, or if you want in the Humanities, but this second version sounds too vague; it sounds like you’re being coy rather than translating an actual Degree’s actual name. And there is no Navarra University, it’s the University of Navarre. And FFS, we will help people find a partner for the table football tournament, we will not look if is possible we find someone for with whom play. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-the-day-i-quite-writing/758501/28 "2016-06-28T13:23:18Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > I wrote a story once. Turned out pretty good IMO, but when it came to the ending, I couldn’t think of a AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgh! - Again with the cliff hanger! ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-the-day-i-quite-writing/758501/29 "2016-06-28T13:26:54Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAgh! - Again with the cliff hanger! For those whohaven’t seen the second installation it ends the same. ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-the-day-i-quite-writing/758501/30 "2016-06-28T14:57:54Z")
There isn’t a single quote about writing in this thread ☹ ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-the-day-i-quite-writing/758501/31 "2016-06-28T16:28:38Z")
“[Omit Needless Words](http://www.bartleby.com/141/strunk5.html)” ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2016, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-the-day-i-quite-writing/758501/32 "2016-06-28T20:41:03Z")
> [@G0sp3l](#): > > There isn’t a single quote about writing in this thread ☹ Post 24. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2016, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rant-the-day-i-quite-writing/758501/33 "2016-06-29T23:22:01Z")
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