Comments on: The dingo ate your novel. http://5-rings.com/blog/2009/07/the-dingo-ate-your-novel/ A journal of the creative writing process. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:36:26 +0000 hourly 1 By: Nick Enlowe http://5-rings.com/blog/2009/07/the-dingo-ate-your-novel/#comment-1483 Nick Enlowe Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:53:49 +0000 http://5-rings.com/blog/2009/07/the-dingo-ate-your-novel/#comment-1483 Thanks! G and I are really excited. *smile* Thanks! G and I are really excited. *smile*

]]> By: Steph http://5-rings.com/blog/2009/07/the-dingo-ate-your-novel/#comment-1478 Steph Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:31:50 +0000 http://5-rings.com/blog/2009/07/the-dingo-ate-your-novel/#comment-1478 I definitely have to agree. Since I've written three-ish novels and abandoned every single one of them, if I were to go by the baby analogy, then I should be in jail. Thank goodness I don't look at it that way. And by the way, congratulations!!! I definitely have to agree. Since I’ve written three-ish novels and abandoned every single one of them, if I were to go by the baby analogy, then I should be in jail.

Thank goodness I don’t look at it that way.

And by the way, congratulations!!!

]]> By: Nick Enlowe http://5-rings.com/blog/2009/07/the-dingo-ate-your-novel/#comment-1474 Nick Enlowe Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:48:27 +0000 http://5-rings.com/blog/2009/07/the-dingo-ate-your-novel/#comment-1474 So glad you liked it. Though my chromasomes don't match, if it makes you feel any better, I used to be a kidney stone former (calcium-based) and passing those can be pretty darn painful ... and one of the other reasons I don't consider my first novel 'my baby' is cuz I dislike the analogy. So glad you liked it.

Though my chromasomes don’t match, if it makes you feel any better, I used to be a kidney stone former (calcium-based) and passing those can be pretty darn painful … and one of the other reasons I don’t consider my first novel ‘my baby’ is cuz I dislike the analogy.

]]> By: Merrilee Faber http://5-rings.com/blog/2009/07/the-dingo-ate-your-novel/#comment-1473 Merrilee Faber Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:24:56 +0000 http://5-rings.com/blog/2009/07/the-dingo-ate-your-novel/#comment-1473 The whole "writing a novel is like having a baby" is a crock of shit. I've had a baby. Writing, no matter how difficult is NOWHERE NEAR as excruciating as labour. Gestating a novel is BLOODY NOTHING LIKE being pregnant. If someone ever said to my face that their novel is their "baby", by god they are going to get one hell of an education. Especially if they are male. So thank you for a great post. I especially love the comments about editing your children's bad habits and the terrible twos. The whole “writing a novel is like having a baby” is a crock of shit. I’ve had a baby. Writing, no matter how difficult is NOWHERE NEAR as excruciating as labour. Gestating a novel is BLOODY NOTHING LIKE being pregnant.

If someone ever said to my face that their novel is their “baby”, by god they are going to get one hell of an education. Especially if they are male.

So thank you for a great post. I especially love the comments about editing your children’s bad habits and the terrible twos.

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