Garrison Keillor to me: Get over it, already

[pegkerr]

I have sort of a hard time not taking this personally. Garrison Keillor says that writers who gripe that Writing is Hard (and you all know that I've bitched plenty about being blocked in this journal before) should just get a grip and knock it off. Writing is hard. Get over it.

Writers, Quit Whining. Spare us the self-involved moaning over the agonies of your art. Writing is no harder than anything else, and the complainers should can it.

Ouch.

Thoughts?

Comments

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

I don't have time just now to watch the ad and therefore read the whole thing, but--

Yeah, can't imagine why you'd be insulted by THAT one.

I would point out that you HAVE a full time job. (And the kids.) So thpt to him.

Personally, I think that writers vary a lot in how they deal with writing. I'm glad he can deal with it in his own way; that does not mean that the way you deal with writing is inappropriate or worthy of criticism.