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Words to Starve By Updated Mon, 5-12-08 • Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t. —Mark Twain • Everytime a friend succeeds, I die a little. —Gore Vidal • Caution: If you don't like salty language, don't click on the link below. In this YouTube™ video, Harlan Ellison rants that writers deserve pay for their work. It's a familiar theme here at the Writer's Catablog. A big Catablog thank-you to John Kremer for posting it on his blog. Harlan Ellison: Writers Should be Paid • Updated Fri, 5-9-08 From an actual ad: "Every director needs a demo reel, every photographer needs a portfolio, every writer needs published work they can point to. Get your work published on our blog now! This is an unpaid, freelance, telecommute position. Tell us again, why can't anyone get published on their own blog? Darn—you don't benefit! • • •	FANTASY GIFTS FOR WRITERS	Ready to Sound Off?
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Words to Starve By

Updated Mon, 5-12-08

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Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.

—Mark Twain

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Everytime a friend succeeds, I die a little.

—Gore Vidal

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Caution: If you don't like salty language, don't click on the link below. In this YouTube™ video, Harlan Ellison rants that writers deserve pay for their work. It's a familiar theme here at the Writer's Catablog. A big Catablog thank-you to John Kremer for posting it on his blog.

Harlan Ellison:
Writers Should be Paid

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Updated Fri, 5-9-08

From an actual ad: "Every director needs a demo reel, every photographer needs a portfolio, every writer needs published work they can point to. Get your work published on our blog now! This is an unpaid, freelance, telecommute position.

Tell us again, why can't anyone get published on their own blog? Darn—you don't benefit!

• • •

FANTASY GIFTS FOR WRITERS

Ready to Sound Off?

Writer's Companion

If the writer is looking for a best friend and willing ear, buy a dog. Dogs provide the slobbery love writers crave, but rarely get from family, who can hardly explain what they do all day.

Rush Deadline Aid

When the work comes in at 6 pm, many writers use this handy pants-securing device to lash themselves into the desk chair for the night. This one also comes in dollar-store plastic.

Mail Retrieval System

It's a long way to that mailbox. If the check isn't there and is still "in the mail" (ha ha, nudge, nudge) this 60-pound pack, complete with tent and water purification device, allows your favorite writer to camp out waiting for the mailman to return. Meals Ready to Eat (MREs) optional.

Think Drink

This clear elixir energizes and renews writers. The fruit, the veggies—it's positively healthful. Shown: Appletini. Variations are legion.

Writer's Block Removal Device

Every writer gets stopped up from time to time. Designed for the quick fix, this device is guaranteed to get things moving again. "It was a dark and stormy....Ah, I’ve still got it." And here it comes.

Drink

Tropical Vacation

Okay, so this is a little cruel. Maybe the writer in your life appreciates irony and will not whop you one. A true writer's vacation consists of a deck chair in the yard and something from the vodka family.