Comments on: Clueless About Writing

By: admin

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:33:39 +0000

@Cate Frankly, I don’t think lack of imagination is a problem with your writing

@Stu Exactly. *shudders*

And thank you all for being too polite to remind me that “Clueless” came out in 1995. D’oh.

By: Stu

Stu — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:06:32 +0000

And of course, if you reversed things to assume that all writers were writing only about things that had happened to them…

Well, I’d have a very odd sort of life, for a start.

By: Cate Gardner

Cate Gardner — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:46:48 +0000

If I waited for something interesting to happen here, I’d possibly start writing in 2109. Sigh!

Loved Clueless.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:25:16 +0000

Hehe. Who couldn't love Clueless, though? I remember seeing it for the first time on some cable channel in the States back in the eighties nineties, having never previously heard of it. I was so pleased with myself when I suddenly realised that I'd seen this plot before. Penny (my daughter's pet giant African land snail for readers who aren't on Twitter) is still a bit subdued. Or maybe she's just a particularly boring specimen.

By: Helen J Beal

Helen J Beal — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:13:45 +0000

Jon – as you know I have been a fan of yours for some time but your citing of ‘Clueless’ has just elevated you to hero level. And of course the proposition that imagination is as, if not more, important than experience in fiction. I hope Penny is well. Helen