Comments on: Bad Advice Wednesday: Kill Your Internet, or, Writing in the Time of Harrison Bergeron http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/bad-advice-wednesday-kill-your-internet-or-writing-in-the-time-of-harrison-bergeron/ Raise a glass to the lost arts of reading, writing, and drinking. Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:35:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Bill http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/bad-advice-wednesday-kill-your-internet-or-writing-in-the-time-of-harrison-bergeron/comment-page-1/#comment-13592 Bill Mon, 12 Sep 2011 02:08:54 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=2506#comment-13592 I get up at 8 or 9 most days... but often work till 2 or 3 in the morning... Dave and I could use the same office and never see one another, except at the bar... But it's true--you gots to put in the hours, at one end or the other... I get up at 8 or 9 most days… but often work till 2 or 3 in the morning… Dave and I could use the same office and never see one another, except at the bar… But it’s true–you gots to put in the hours, at one end or the other…

]]> By: eli hastings http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/bad-advice-wednesday-kill-your-internet-or-writing-in-the-time-of-harrison-bergeron/comment-page-1/#comment-13580 eli hastings Sun, 11 Sep 2011 21:23:04 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=2506#comment-13580 Goddamit, David, I was just feeling really virtuous for getting up with my son three days in a row at six a.m. You'd already been writing for 3 hours. By the way, speaking of Gempers Moon, change the link for me to my website when you can. Coming to Wilmington........end of month.....will holler. Goddamit, David, I was just feeling really virtuous for getting up with my son three days in a row at six a.m. You’d already been writing for 3 hours.

By the way, speaking of Gempers Moon, change the link for me to my website when you can.

Coming to Wilmington……..end of month…..will holler.

]]> By: Rahul Dave http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/bad-advice-wednesday-kill-your-internet-or-writing-in-the-time-of-harrison-bergeron/comment-page-1/#comment-13484 Rahul Dave Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:38:00 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=2506#comment-13484 I knew I should have been writing instead of coming by here. Erm... I knew I should have been writing instead of coming by here. Erm…

]]> By: Bill http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/bad-advice-wednesday-kill-your-internet-or-writing-in-the-time-of-harrison-bergeron/comment-page-1/#comment-13447 Bill Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:02:09 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=2506#comment-13447 John, it's funny but exactly a year ago I posted on the perils of teaching, <a href="http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/goodbye-to-all-that/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I'm still enjoying not, though it's tough on the income... John, it’s funny but exactly a year ago I posted on the perils of teaching, here. I’m still enjoying not, though it’s tough on the income…

]]> By: monica wood http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/bad-advice-wednesday-kill-your-internet-or-writing-in-the-time-of-harrison-bergeron/comment-page-1/#comment-13365 monica wood Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:24:33 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=2506#comment-13365 Oh, no, no, no, Dave--your laptop's disconnectness DOES make your desk time better than someone else's. Wouldn't it have to? Writing while allowing your thoughts to proceed uninterrupted IS better than ding-bing-bing every two minutes, or every forty seconds. I also work on a laptop that's unplugged from the internet. I do all my email and etceteras on a desktop in another place altogether, so that if I do get up to go check email, I am well aware that I'm doing it. It doesn't just make a difference to work unplugged; it makes ALL the difference. Have you heard from your friend Barack? Oh, no, no, no, Dave–your laptop’s disconnectness DOES make your desk time better than someone else’s. Wouldn’t it have to? Writing while allowing your thoughts to proceed uninterrupted IS better than ding-bing-bing every two minutes, or every forty seconds. I also work on a laptop that’s unplugged from the internet. I do all my email and etceteras on a desktop in another place altogether, so that if I do get up to go check email, I am well aware that I’m doing it. It doesn’t just make a difference to work unplugged; it makes ALL the difference.

Have you heard from your friend Barack?

]]> By: john lane http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/bad-advice-wednesday-kill-your-internet-or-writing-in-the-time-of-harrison-bergeron/comment-page-1/#comment-13362 john lane Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:11:47 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=2506#comment-13362 Yes, I'm getting ready to enter a few months of low-level book hawking (compared to your Division I schedule) and I'm interested to see how I'll fare with it. All this does take away from what we love to do-- write. And then there's teaching... That's for you to tackle on another "bad advice" Wednesday: Writer who teaches or teacher who writes?" Hang in there Dave! We Cocktail Hour fans need you! Yes, I’m getting ready to enter a few months of low-level book hawking (compared to your Division I schedule) and I’m interested to see how I’ll fare with it. All this does take away from what we love to do– write. And then there’s teaching…

That’s for you to tackle on another “bad advice” Wednesday: Writer who teaches or teacher who writes?” Hang in there Dave! We Cocktail Hour fans need you!

]]> By: Susan Pearsall http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/bad-advice-wednesday-kill-your-internet-or-writing-in-the-time-of-harrison-bergeron/comment-page-1/#comment-13358 Susan Pearsall Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:46:02 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=2506#comment-13358 Wouldn't most artists rather be creating new work than selling their wares? No wonder painters and sculptors turn their work over to galleries and split the profits. Sorry to hear you are suffering the post book tour blues. Take heart, you've earned lots of great media attention that will sell your books while you return to writing. A little sleep may help too :) I love the idea of keeping a writing laptop offline! Wouldn’t most artists rather be creating new work than selling their wares? No wonder painters and sculptors turn their work over to galleries and split the profits. Sorry to hear you are suffering the post book tour blues. Take heart, you’ve earned lots of great media attention that will sell your books while you return to writing. A little sleep may help too :) I love the idea of keeping a writing laptop offline!

]]> By: dave http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/bad-advice-wednesday-kill-your-internet-or-writing-in-the-time-of-harrison-bergeron/comment-page-1/#comment-13344 dave Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:25:34 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=2506#comment-13344 John, Another major distraction, of course, is hawking your books, with the goal of being able to publish more books. That's another place where the extravert/introvert thing comes into play. I am the rare writing extravert, but I am battling off depression after a summer of hawking the books.....so where does that leave more shy artists? Not trying to whine here, but that part of the job is somewhat at odds with the more internal parts....Dave John,

Another major distraction, of course, is hawking your books, with the goal of being able to publish more books. That’s another place where the extravert/introvert thing comes into play. I am the rare writing extravert, but I am battling off depression after a summer of hawking the books…..so where does that leave more shy artists? Not trying to whine here, but that part of the job is somewhat at odds with the more internal parts….Dave

]]> By: john lane http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/bad-advice-wednesday-kill-your-internet-or-writing-in-the-time-of-harrison-bergeron/comment-page-1/#comment-13338 john lane Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:40:09 +0000 http://billanddavescocktailhour.com/?p=2506#comment-13338 As usual you point out beautifully that Modernity is a complex thing. We no longer live in an age when it's not easy to turn off waves of electronic communication designed to come at us from every angle. Every day we choose less and less how much we take part in the age. It is forced upon us. On the personality side, writers tend to be introverted but not all are. I don't know the exact percentages, but among college professors it's been estimated that it's close to 80/20 introvert vs extravert; among the students we teach it's often 90/10. Those of us who are extraverted tend to tolerate more of the "noise" than the extreme introverts. But all this said, I agree completely with the fact that finding those big blocks of time is the most important thing a writer can do. As usual you point out beautifully that Modernity is a complex thing. We no longer live in an age when it’s not easy to turn off waves of electronic communication designed to come at us from every angle. Every day we choose less and less how much we take part in the age. It is forced upon us. On the personality side, writers tend to be introverted but not all are. I don’t know the exact percentages, but among college professors it’s been estimated that it’s close to 80/20 introvert vs extravert; among the students we teach it’s often 90/10. Those of us who are extraverted tend to tolerate more of the “noise” than the extreme introverts. But all this said, I agree completely with the fact that finding those big blocks of time is the most important thing a writer can do.

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