Mr. Prairie Home Companion Has Had It!

I like Garrison Keillor. Have you heard of him? He’s the host in the pretty popular A Prairie Home Companion. I’m not sure where else it’s aired, but I listen to it during the weekend on NPR. Pretty good stuff!

As funny and humble as he can be sometimes, it looks like he’s a bit fed up with whining writers.

“I have had it with writers who talk about how painful and harrowing and exhausting and ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE it is for them to put words on paper and how they pace a hole in the carpet, anguish writ large on their marshmallow faces, and feel lucky to have written an entire sentence or two by the end of the day.”

In which he really boils it all down by this statement:

“It's the purest form of arrogance: Lest you don't notice what a brilliant artist I am, let me tell you how I agonize over my work. To which I say: Get a job.”

I’m not sure how serious he was when writing this; I’m sure there’s a bit of honesty in there. Otherwise, I kind of lifted my eyebrows a bit while reading it. I agree in a way, just because I don't really like whiners in general.

Now, let me get going. I’ve been working all day pounding out words, only to trash them. It was a painful, harrowing, and exhausting process. God help me… ;)

Read My opinion Garrison Keillor: Writers who whine about work are full of the wrong stuff.