Do you waste way, way too much time on the Internet when you really should be writing a novel or something?

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Yes.

― P.J.Harvey-Nicks (jimjones), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes. Doesn't everyone?

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

guilt overwhelms me now. :(

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

No. I only waste time that I should be doing office work. So it's not much of a waste.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

No. I'd say that 90% of my time on ilx is whilst I am at work. I could not get away with writing a novel at work. I would get found out, because people would notice me typing furiously for long periods of time, rather than in short bursts.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

1. I finished my last novel in May 2000

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 13:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Did you find a publisher?

― P.J.Harvey-Nicks (jimjones), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Why Don't You Just Switch Off Your Computer And Go Out And Do Something Less Boring Instead?

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

It's not that simple, Mark. I'm trying to write my novel on this computer, but ADSL is fucking with my life.

― P.J.Harvey-Nicks (jimjones), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

FALSE

― Mark C (Mark C), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I waste time online when I should be doing work, it's the having to do work later that keeps me from writing novels.

― Maria (Maria), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know where people get the idea that being online is boring.

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 13:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Not from me!

I plan to do NaNoWriMo. I must find the thread on that. Anyway, I'll probably be on here just as much, because, like MarkH said, I couldn't get away with novel writing at work.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm planning on writing a novel about someone who spends way way too much time on the internet.

This is necessary research that I'm doing here :)

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn right. I waste too much time doing anything when I should be doing... whatever. Stuff.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

No, but I didn't try very hard because one month later ILE started. Coincidence? I thunk not.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 14:02 (twenty-two years ago)

So it's true then. The cream of a whole new generation of novelists are instead making silly jokes about anal sex on the Internet.

― P.J.Harvey-Nicks (jimjones), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh the humanity. Yes yes and yes.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 14:08 (twenty-two years ago)

The interweb: singlehanded killing the future of literature!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 14:13 (twenty-two years ago)

the internet:ambition abortion at your fingertips

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I often wonder how the literature of the future, dialogue in particular, will be affected by the existence of online forums and text-based conveyance of our own personalities.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Lady, if you have to ask. . .

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 14:25 (twenty-two years ago)

This is my literature. It's the best thing I've ever written. (Obv not this post).

If we set up a support group it would be time for us to take over the WORLD.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey, I'm on the interent right now, and I still haven't done the work I need to finish by 12 today. That's 30min from now, yikes.

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

People need to stop blaming the Internet for their poor time management skills. Every post complaining about the Internet sucking your time away is one post further away from your productivity goal and ONE POST CLOSER TO YOUR GRAVE!

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck. You're so right. Back to the novel. Now where was I? Ah yes, that's right:

It was a dark and stormy night...

― P.J.Harvey-Nicks (jimjones), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I only waste too much time at work.
At home, I don't have Internet right now, so I work work work on my crazy crime novel/CD review anthology.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Jack carefully climbed through the window, trying to avoid the shards of glass that littered the floor. He turned on the flashlight and made his way over to the table where he knew Brenda kept her wallet, her jewelry, and -- "O-ho!" Jack thought. "Looks like someone's been shopping."
The bag had the receipt still in it, which had Brenda's credit card numbers on it, which could come in handy. And it had a handful of used CDs as well. Jack looked them over. The Cure's "Bloodflowers" -- an unexpected choice for Brenda, really. The Cure had edged into new territory with "Wild Mood Swings", but nevertheless drew scorn from certain quarters because it eschewed goth rock for pop, both pure and twisted. For 2000's "Bloodflowers", Robert Smith decided to give the people -- or, Jack figured, at least Brenda -- what they wanted: a classic Cure album, billed as the third part of a trilogy begun with "Pornography" and continued with "Disintegration".
That turned out to be more or less true, since "Bloodflowers" boasts all of the Cure's signatures: stately tempos, languid melodies, spacious arrangements, cavernous echoes, morose lyrics, keening vocals, long running times. If that's all you're looking for, "Bloodflowers" delivers in spades. If you want something transcendent, you're out of luck, since the album falls short of the mark, largely because it sounds too self-conscious. As one song segues into the next, it feels like Smith is striving to make a classic Cure record, putting all the sounds in place before he constructs the actual songs.
That makes for a good listening experience, especially for fans of "Disintegration", which Brenda always insisted on playing during sex, but it never catches hold the way that record did, for two simple reasons: there isn't enough variation between the songs for them to distinguish themselves, nor are there are enough sonic details to give individual tracks character. While "Disintegration" had goth monoliths, it also had pristine pop gems and elegant neo-psychedelia; with a couple of exceptions, the songs on "Bloodflowes" all feel like cousins of "Pictures of You."

The album is certainly well made, and even enjoyable; however, its achievement is a bit hollow, since it never seems like Smith is pushing himself or the band. Nobody else can come close to capturing the Cure's graceful gloom, but it's hard to shake the suspicion that "Bloodflowers" could have been something grand if he had shaken up the formula slightly. Jack figured it was worth about two, maybe three stars -- about as much as Brenda, really.

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Stop stealing from the collaborative novel Dan and I are working on (and then rewriting it to make it seem like Bloodflowers doesn't work).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

funny how tep hasn't shown up around these parts....

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Simple strategy: don't get internet at home. Not only is life cheaper, you only piss away the time your employers are trying to extort from you. Win AND win! Sure, it can be inconvenient, but so is breathing.

― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 18:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I think it's just an excuse. There are loads of creative people who manage to write, compose etc. and waste a lot of time online.

― Nicolars (Nicole), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned, please tell me that wasn't just a joke. I want the read the Daned Perragetty novel very muchly.

― Chris P (Chris P), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

It would be genius, they could use the pseudonym "Greg Pyre-Tart".

― Nicolars (Nicole), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)

But then having the Net at home does help if you need to communicate with someone (via email) in a hurry, or get that very important article sent. Plus, most people do have self control. It isn't like it seduces you by just being in the home.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Tuesday, 23 September 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)

It would be genius, they could use the pseudonym "Greg Pyre-Tart".

Hmmm...maybe I need to rethink my NaNoWriMo entry.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

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