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Updated Fri, 8-15-08

Words to Starve By

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"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any."

—Russell Baker

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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

•

Updated Fri, 8-15-08

I would like to find a copy editor to go through my manuscript. I
am offering $200 to make this worth your time and am ideally looking for someone who would like to take this on and have some fun with it.

Two hundred bucks American? For all that fun, we would do it free.
The going rate, by the way, would be considerably more, fun optional.

• • •

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.

Vacation

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.