Speaking as a professional writer, I'd want to smack that woman if I had to spend any length of time around her. That is just insanely annoying, and also - speaking as a professional writer, you know, because there's no higher position of intellectual or moral authority - if she's never had problems writing, she's not a writer. (That's what I think she meant with the whole "can't take part" comment. Unless she signed a non-disclosure form that included the clause "will not take part in literacy-related writing discussion exercises" or something.) Even A. J. Liebling occasionally had trouble getting started or getting it right, lady.
I think I'm going to be using the phrase "speaking as a professional writer" a lot in the coming days. It's magical! It dresses up any sentence!
"Speaking as a professional writer, I thought I'd make lasagna for dinner." "Speaking as a professional writer, I can't find my watch. Or remember my blood type, come to that. How much did I, speaking as a professional writer, have to drink?" "Speaking as a professional writer, oh my god fuck me NOW."
See? Works in any context! Delightful to behold! Really, really irritating!
Plus, her "wow" moment is so appallingly, stunningly schlocky and meaningless that I find myself wondering if "professional writer" means, in this context, "public telephone sanitizer who dreams of being just like her hero, Barbara Cartland, someday." Because - gag.
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Date: 2004-11-21 07:28 am (UTC)I think I'm going to be using the phrase "speaking as a professional writer" a lot in the coming days. It's magical! It dresses up any sentence!
"Speaking as a professional writer, I thought I'd make lasagna for dinner."
"Speaking as a professional writer, I can't find my watch. Or remember my blood type, come to that. How much did I, speaking as a professional writer, have to drink?"
"Speaking as a professional writer, oh my god fuck me NOW."
See? Works in any context! Delightful to behold! Really, really irritating!
Plus, her "wow" moment is so appallingly, stunningly schlocky and meaningless that I find myself wondering if "professional writer" means, in this context, "public telephone sanitizer who dreams of being just like her hero, Barbara Cartland, someday." Because - gag.