tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86944970492029732782024-02-08T02:07:48.148-08:00PaperShayne Holzmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979704315435396784noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8694497049202973278.post-58622802230027890402009-05-24T14:34:00.000-07:002009-05-24T14:36:45.196-07:00Papers<!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Reading unlined papers</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Bottling words that don’t make sense</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Imagining the square letters on your blue jeans</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Inserting words on a wide-ruled page</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Folding papers</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Calling for publication when no one is at your service</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Asking for advice columns</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Preparing lousy speeches</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Attending grad school</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Flunking Algebra but then cutting it short to make an A in English</p> <p class="MsoNormal">The English nerd</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Walking while writing</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Talking on the phone and recording words of dialogue in one’s ear</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Making scenes in one’s head</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Deleting unmarked sentences covered with red ink</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Slashing your markings and cutting out certain word like: Fuck or Damn</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Accusing your English professor for damaging your unpublished work</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Creating your own contests that no one attends to online</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Making a date with a writing friend</p> <p class="MsoNormal">All you talk about is writing</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Nothing intrigues you except the words on people’s shirts</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Books make you leave the world</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Pieces of blank paper make you smile</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Recordings of music titles with loser titles make you faint</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Dialogue is action</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Words are life</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Scenes are forest like</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Story equals character</p> <p class="MsoNormal">A good plot line is hard to find</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Every paper you have says these lines on them</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Writers count words not numbers</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment-->Shayne Holzmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11979704315435396784noreply@blogger.com0