Julie Zied: The Ziedgeist

FYI: On Writing

by Julie Zied
Mar 24th, 2008 | 10:07 AM | Comments 0

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The world through the eyes of comedy writer-producer Ken Levine is always interesting, and sometimes provocative, as was his “By Ken Levine” post Saturday titled “When To Stop Writing.” It concluded with the following paragraph: Writing is rewarding but never easy. We resist starting and constantly fight the temptation to stop. Kurt Vonnegut talked of the difficulty. He said whenever he’s in a room with writers they’ll all be bitching about how hard the process is. All except one. He’ll say it’s a breeze. Every day it just flows. Invariably HE’S the worst writer in the room.