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William Gibson on Blogging

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the stuff-to-read dept.

The Ape With No Name writes "With Pattern Recognition now out, Gibson talks to the Guardian about blogging, which ones he's looking at and why he may have to quit blogging himself. He's quoted as saying '...if I'm ever going to write another book, I'm going to have to quit doing my blog as I have a hunch it interferes with the ecology of being a novelist.'"

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  1. steganography, reviewers and dictionaries.... by girl_geek_antinomy · · Score: 2, Funny

    There was an early review of Pattern Recognition in one of the UK broadsheets where the (female, as it happens) reviewer was complaining that she didn't like it, didn't understand it, and it was unfair to expect anyone to understand what 'steganography' was. She couldn't go and find a dictionary?

    I'm really looking forward to reading it, when I can find someone to borrow it off :)

  2. Re:Blogging ruining his flow as a writer... by maxpublic · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was thinking it was more of an egotistical, self-important, usually angst-ridden form of self-worship. But I guess YMMV.

    Max

    --
    My god carries a hammer. Your god died nailed to a tree. Any questions?
  3. hold on a second! by TheRealRamone · · Score: 2, Funny

    "... he jammed the simstick down as he entered..."
    a simstick is, quite obviously, a stick of single inline memory! what r u... a dimm-wit :?}

    --TRR

  4. Re:The main problem with Blogs by Cedric+C.+Girouard · · Score: 3, Funny
    And here I thought Proffessional Philosophy was an Oxymoron :-(

    I've got a friend with a degree in ... you guessed it ... Philosophy. They way he explained it to me is "I don't have a job. But I can explain you why at great lenght."

    I guess it makes sense...

    --

    Marriage is considered capital punishment for the theft of a goat in some third world countries...

  5. What a strange analogy! by AndroidCat · · Score: 3, Funny
    the ecology of being a novelist

    Does that mean the process of being a novelist involves eating your way up the food-chain until you either die or are excreted back to the bottom? :^)

    --
    One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
  6. Re:Perhaps he should keep writing in his weblog by Call+Me+Black+Cloud · · Score: 2, Funny

    James Joyce = overrated. Overrated is James Joyce. It was a dark and overrated night. A shot rang out. James Joyce screamed. "Is there an overrated author in the house?" [J. Joyce steps forward].

    At least he did give us the term quark:

    Three quarks for Muster Mark!
    Sure he hasn't got much of a bark
    And sure any he has it's all beside the mark."