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Back from Vacation

8/19/2015

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One of the big lies told to writers is that you have to write every day.  I have written the vast majority of days of my life, but it doesn’t mean spit if I take a few days off.  Sometimes you need time off to fill the well.

Which is not to say I did no writing on vacation.  I always do.  My point here is that I live in a society devoted to selling the lie of overwork.  Perhaps this is appropriate as it seems more young people want to work too little than too much.  But experience has a way of changing that, so I don’t endorse the selling.  Age cures a lot of things without my input.

American society sells that you have to work too much until you’re rich.  Even if you don’t particularly want to be rich.  I don’t think that’s special.  Selling is what American society does.  It sells the good and the bad without regard for which is which.  So it’s up to each of us as individuals to choose what story we buy.  (I also fail to see why being rich exempts one from the company line of working too much.)

I like to work hard at work I like.  (That last sentence is almost palindromic, isn’t it?)   But life is far more than that.  A lot of things I choose to buy don’t cost money.  I can’t get more meta than that, so I’ll sign off and do things that are fun.  And free.

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Carl Thiel
8/22/2015 03:01:32 pm

Your statement, "I like to work hard at work I like," smacks of something British writer Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) said succinctly in the following tautology: “For people who like that kind of thing, that is the kind of thing they like.” – in ZULEIKA DOBSON, ch 11 (1911).

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      • 'Why Elephants No Longer Communicate in Greek' by Timons Esaias
      • Brief Encounters with My Third Eye
    • Flash Fiction Links
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      • Short Fiction Bibliography
      • "A Dwarf for Each"
      • "Standard Repair"
      • "Sense of Place, Sense of Mystery"
      • Intro - Come-on from the Horse on 7th Avenue
      • "No Sense Fighting"
  • The SCA
    • SCA Photos 1
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    • Precedence for Andreas Hak
    • SCA Persona
    • Offices Held in the SCA
    • SCA Writings >
      • Serenity: A History of Eastern Coronets
      • "The Origin of The Betting Man's Guide
      • "The New Newsletter"
      • Old Newsletters
      • "The New Newsletter"
      • "When the VOID Was One"
      • "The Hael's First Baronial Champions Event"
      • "Aftermeetings: An Excuse to Tell Svid Stories"
      • "The Origin of Aethelmearc's Ancestral Pelican Medallion"
      • Remembering Durlome Rakesh d'Mithnan (Dwarf)
      • Growth Chart of Kingdoms for the First 23 Years of the SCA
      • Doings... An incomplete and informal chronology of the earliest days of Aethelmearc
      • History of the East Kingdom
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