I am teaching a whole bunch of writing courses in the coming months. This will roughly coincide with a two-month period where I am much more likely to show up at this blog and goof off, rather than talking about writing and publishing, because there is only so much writing and publishing talk I can take in a given week.
And I largely hit that limit when I’m not talking about writing in general, and giving specific comments on work, which is a lot of what I’m doing at the moment.
Critiquing work stresses me out.
It also leads to a lot of goofing off, on twitter. Which has now developed into a weird daily twitter thing, with Conan references, that makes me extraordinarily happy.
I am still extraordinarily proud of the October 3 entry.
“Conan, what is best in life?”
“…hugs. It’s hugs, right? Come on, hugs are awesome.”— Peter Ball (@Petermball) October 17, 2015
“Conan, what is best in life?”
“Not being chained to a wheel for your teenage years. Not being chained to a wheel is aces.”— Peter Ball (@Petermball) October 28, 2015
“Conan, what is best in life?”
“Go away. Supergirl is on.”— Peter Ball (@Petermball) April 3, 2016
“Conan, what is best in life?”
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“Hold on, it’ll come to me.”— Peter Ball (@Petermball) April 4, 2016
“Conan, what is best in life?”
“Raindrops on roses and whispers on kittens. God, it’s like you’ve never heard the damn song.”— Peter Ball (@Petermball) April 5, 2016
Conan, what is best in life? Negotiate with your enemies. Deliver books to them. Use stories to affect change in their culture. Also: pie.
— Peter Ball (@Petermball) October 3, 2015
“Conan, what is best in life?”
“Staying home to read your favourite book when it’s grey, wet, and about to rain.”— Peter Ball (@Petermball) April 7, 2016
“Conan, what is best in life?”
“The little piano section at the end of Faith No More’s Epic. Oh, and the guitar solo in November Rain.”— Peter Ball (@Petermball) April 10, 2016
“Conan, what is best in life?”
“Bunnies. It must be bunnies.”— Peter Ball (@Petermball) April 11, 2016
“Conan, what is best in life?”
“Today? Write club with @AngelaSlatter”— Peter Ball (@Petermball) April 12, 2016
It’s obscene, how much I enjoy doing these. If I could just give up this pesky writing dream and tweet Conan jokes for the rest of my life…
