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Writer's Block
If you're sitting on a whopper, good idea to go back to basics and type up a one or two page synopsis of your whole story. If it still excites you, you'll finish the book. If not, you need to work on the synopsis, which is sometimes harder than the book itself.
Reviews
There are also some sites that pay you for reviewing books - as long as the review is good/comprehensive enough. You could, theoretically, make a living reviewing - and writing short stories as Writer John suggests.
Language vs plot?
Choice of words vs pace or plot? Hotel du Lac (Anita Brookner) is not a great work - dull, boring, dull again - but it won the Booker prize 10-15 years ago. 'His Daughter' does not grip me at all and I find the language grates at times. I think that I would not be able to...
Claustrophobia/kidnap...gulp...
Trapped on a whim and held by fear
There's something I don't want to hear:
The voice I heard not long ago
Beckoning me forward in the snow.
"It's only a flat, I'll need your help
You mustn't shout, you needn't yelp,
Just get inside and we'll be done...
Hard
I think the subsidiary debate here is similar to the one about going to a bad film. Go to a big film festival, see a few films and you learn astonishingly quickly to do what most critics do - exercise the right to leave ASAP. Ions - as a matter of interest, and this is not intended to be...
Frying tonight!
Crackling books - try The Rainmaker (John Grisham) or The Good German (Joseph Kanon) or Julius (BA Levine) or The Beach (Alex Garland). They're all fast reads and give you something you can warm your hands with.
Catch 22
A third and mysterious new person - my lovely wife - has now entered the fray and ordered one for me (amongst other books which I used to have but don't anymore) which makes matters even more complicated. Your offer - our offers - are very generous but I risk incurring the wrath of my...
Re-read books
Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Hard Times, (yes I rather like Dickens..) Tom Jones, Vile Bodies, Forty Years On (play), The Importance... (play), lots of Shakespeare, Gullivers' Travels (unexpurgated versio:eek: n), 2001: A Space Odyssey, Catch 22, London Fields... probably a lot...
Comparables...
Hi Manuscriptx - check out some old (1930) thoughts that strike a chord perhaps with what the writer in your passage is feeling:
'No no - you mustn't be serious...it's just what they want. Laugh at everything...be flippant!...laugh at everything, all their sacred shibboleths...
Catch 22
This is one of the greatest books of the 21st century, and the film is pretty amazing as well - and very disturbing. I am sure I have bought at least 3 copies of this over the years and lent it to friends who have 'mislaid' each one, leaving me in my own little Catch 22 situation.
Business-book/fiction
Try Liar's Poker - a true story of how '80s Salomon traders made millions and acted like idiots. It's factual/fun/fiction in one take.