December Daily: bad advice
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resonant19 -- jesse_the_k -- advice you regret following
The thing that springs to mind immediately is the one that says, "Ha ha ha, nobody can make a living as a writer!" Not even that I wish I were making a living as a writer -- it sounds like a thing that might take the fun out of writing -- but I wish I hadn't just immediately, at the age of eight, written off any thought of even bothering to take a class in creative writing, and instead grabbed onto the idea of journalism like a leaky life preserver.
Other advice I regret following:
- "Show an interest in the things boys like."
- "Don't raise your voice or make a scene." (When people tickled me against my will. When a boy who had a crush on me picked me up, over my protests, and tried to carry me around, and dropped me on my head. Etc.)
- "It's perfectly safe to accept that check in exchange for your stereo." Yeah, by the time it bounced, they weren't even in the same state any more.
- "This schedule is too hard for a freshman. As your advisor, I recommend you take out one of these sociology classes and sign up for something easy, like something from the theater department." Right. Interpretation of Literature class features in my nightmares to this day.
- "You should get a perm!"
I'm not finding that many of these. The spouse and my mother would probably say it's because I don't really take advice!
Comment to leave me a prompt! Stealjesse_the_k's prompt if you want to do the meme yourself!
20 --copracat -- memory.
21 --rhi -- cats.
22 --marina - Your top three fics you've ever read. Your top three favorite fics you've ever written.
23 --laurenthemself -- Something spooky that's happened to you
24 --acid - Something you wish more people knew about you.
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26 -- In the absence of other input, I will attempt to analyze types of wassail verses
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jesse_the_k -- advice you regret followingThe thing that springs to mind immediately is the one that says, "Ha ha ha, nobody can make a living as a writer!" Not even that I wish I were making a living as a writer -- it sounds like a thing that might take the fun out of writing -- but I wish I hadn't just immediately, at the age of eight, written off any thought of even bothering to take a class in creative writing, and instead grabbed onto the idea of journalism like a leaky life preserver.
Other advice I regret following:
- "Show an interest in the things boys like."
- "Don't raise your voice or make a scene." (When people tickled me against my will. When a boy who had a crush on me picked me up, over my protests, and tried to carry me around, and dropped me on my head. Etc.)
- "It's perfectly safe to accept that check in exchange for your stereo." Yeah, by the time it bounced, they weren't even in the same state any more.
- "This schedule is too hard for a freshman. As your advisor, I recommend you take out one of these sociology classes and sign up for something easy, like something from the theater department." Right. Interpretation of Literature class features in my nightmares to this day.
- "You should get a perm!"
I'm not finding that many of these. The spouse and my mother would probably say it's because I don't really take advice!
Comment to leave me a prompt! Steal
jesse_the_k's prompt if you want to do the meme yourself! 20 --
copracat -- memory. 21 --
rhi -- cats. 22 --
marina - Your top three fics you've ever read. Your top three favorite fics you've ever written.23 --
laurenthemself -- Something spooky that's happened to you24 --
acid - Something you wish more people knew about you.25 --
26 -- In the absence of other input, I will attempt to analyze types of wassail verses
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