{"id":3605,"date":"2006-06-19T23:49:04","date_gmt":"2006-06-20T03:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/wp\/?p=3605"},"modified":"2006-06-19T23:49:04","modified_gmt":"2006-06-20T03:49:04","slug":"lewis_black_on_writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/lewis_black_on_writing\/","title":{"rendered":"lewis black, on writing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The A.V. Club recently published a great interview with Lewis Black<\/a> last week, whom most of you probably know from his “Back in Black” op-ed segments on The Daily Show and his various HBO specials. The interview doesn’t seem to be available online anymore but this is the best bit from it, Black on writing (his first book Nothing Sacred<\/a> is now out in paperback):<\/p>\n

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Anybody who likes writing a book is an idiot. Because it’s impossible, it’s like having a homework assignment every stinking day until it’s done. And by the time you get it in, it’s done and you’re sitting there reading it, and you realize the 12,000 things you didn’t do. I mean, writing isn’t fun. It’s never been fun. It’s momentum, and once you get the momentum going, that’s great, but it’s a brutal experience in many, many ways. And when you’re done, people tell you “Well, gee, I’m not interested.” “Great, I’m glad I sat down and wrote this!”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is kind of what blogging is like, sometimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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