tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post667413031839157971..comments2024-03-29T05:46:39.542+00:00Comments on Penny Red: A small wobblePenny Redhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07677315565893516941noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-18363111252052177242010-04-04T07:01:31.458+01:002010-04-04T07:01:31.458+01:00Possibly you should ruminate on why generation y i...Possibly you should ruminate on why generation y is compleat in its selfeshness.All generations who sell their labour, are of the exployted.Good luck.aberfoylehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11484495252081507064noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-22594211669938573362010-04-03T11:50:22.192+01:002010-04-03T11:50:22.192+01:00Penny
Well, I'll certainly be interested in w...Penny<br /><br />Well, I'll certainly be interested in what you have to say, and I offer my best wishes for the project. As you know, I have offered my own perspective on generational betrayal, from the vantage point of being in my mid-forties, and I have some concerns about the whole direction you appear to be headed with your analysis, but I'm always happy to bounce ideas around.Paulhttp://www.bickerstafferecord.org.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-83584723123559905682010-04-03T00:15:21.788+01:002010-04-03T00:15:21.788+01:00'It's going to be called Generation Square...'It's going to be called Generation Square, and it's about (all the people who were mean to me at school) (hipsters) the deliberate cultural and social impoverishment of Generation Y'<br /><br />Dude - I love you. <br /><br />If I'm around on Google Talk and you need to thrash out ideas, feel free, though I'm not anywhere near as smart as you!<br /><br />'I'm in no way knowledgeable or mature enough to write a book'<br /><br />Factually inaccurate sentence!<br /><br />P.S.: I will buy this, provided 'tis reasonably priced.KJBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08571556157838498964noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-87390962560670224472010-04-02T23:03:19.580+01:002010-04-02T23:03:19.580+01:00Bless you, of course you can do it. You write bett...Bless you, of course you can do it. You write better than many, many people who have been published. If you doubt that, I suggest you download and watch Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, the part where he talks about Dan Brown. Not only will it make you realise that you're almost certainly a better writer than the megaselling conspiracy theorist, it's also very amusing, so will cheer you up. (In fact, I think that episode starts with a bit about Chris Facking Moyles, which will *definitely* cheer you up.<br /><br />Seriously, don't let the bastard self-doubt get you down. You're more than capable of saying all this, and it needs saying.Finisterrehttp://www.esic.esnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-87210155171931222702010-04-02T21:40:55.016+01:002010-04-02T21:40:55.016+01:00For heavens sake, try to write instead of agonisin...For heavens sake, try to write instead of agonising about it. If you don't think you can write a book, don't accept the challenge. Maturity is not linked in any way to age. Being in your mid twenties never stopped anyone from being great. Take this opportunity by the scruff of the neck and drive your words through the opportunity like a madman aiming for the state border with the fuzz on your tail. <br /><br />This is your opportunity to say what you've always needed to say to whom you ahve always wanted to say it : for that generation to realise that we are the ones they will turn to when they are old and infirm, and the generation they will expect to show mercy when they showed us none at all. We are the ones they saddled with student debt, with obscene house prices and crazed lending, with abusive pension practices, rising retirement ages, and a proliferation of shocking short-term contracts and other ways to enslave and financially sodomize forever so a new underclass is created. This is the generation that they are destroying in a "Race To The Bottom" so they can make a tiny fraction more money they do not require whilst robbing the future from their own children. <br /><br />So write and fail, or don't, and definitely fail. Be angry, be righteous, be right and be factual, but above all, BE.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05874971733723914974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-64683812718523206802010-04-02T15:51:26.851+01:002010-04-02T15:51:26.851+01:00Write from the heart and I'll buy a copy of yo...Write from the heart and I'll buy a copy of your book. Otherwise not. I'm tired of people expressing or proselytising other people's ideas and feelings in their own words. Find your own voice and use it. Toodles.Gyroscopenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-71567065784586710732010-04-02T14:32:10.829+01:002010-04-02T14:32:10.829+01:00Interesting that you're supporting the Lib Dem...Interesting that you're supporting the Lib Dems when, for the first time in living memory, they're going into the election as the most economically right-wing party (by some distance).<br /><br />I am a Eurosceptic but either way, I don't think voting for Lib Dem candidate against a Labour one is a great way to demonstrate support for pro-European policies. It only serves to increase the likelihood that an anti-European party, the Tories, will form the next government.David Floydhttp://www.chartist.org.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-4396827739173331842010-04-01T22:43:20.014+01:002010-04-01T22:43:20.014+01:00BTW what is wrong with being a euroskeptic? THere ...BTW what is wrong with being a euroskeptic? THere are very good reasons why socialists and democrats in general should be deeply sceptical of the EU.Reubenhttp://www.thethirdestate.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-72162863399518745282010-04-01T17:17:30.106+01:002010-04-01T17:17:30.106+01:00I've been waiting for an announcement along th...I've been waiting for an announcement along these lines for some time. Very pleased to see it finally here, eagerly awaiting this book. I'd suggest not letting yourself get too bogged down in this e-nonsense for a while, but if you want to offer any of it up to us for response then I'd be happy to help out as best I can.Jameshttp://scriboergosum.org.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-85993958647277291722010-04-01T15:22:51.306+01:002010-04-01T15:22:51.306+01:00So your Labour candidate is a Eurosceptic, you luc...So your Labour candidate is a Eurosceptic, you lucky person? Maybe you shouldn't have mentioned that as the Guardian believes only right-wing eurosceptics exist. Sure it's right-wing to want to maintain what democratic control we have of our affairs and to be against the rich White nations of Europe ganging up against the 3rd world, most grossly in the CAP but plenty of other ways as well. <br />BTW, who is your Labour candidate? I'd like to offer my support, if I can't give my vote.Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-15464037052627648672010-04-01T13:57:08.073+01:002010-04-01T13:57:08.073+01:00"the deliberate cultural and social impoveris...<i>"the deliberate cultural and social impoverishment of Generation Y. About the way in which our futures have been bartered, what the first stages of that bartering have done to us as a generation, and the way in which that process differs from the way every cohort of powerful adults sells out its children."</i><br /><br />How do you know the growing up experiences of this 'generation' (a dubious concept anyway) is different to previous ones? Unless you're a Buddhist with a good memory for your past incarnations I suspect you've only got experience of one generation.Neuroskeptichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06647064768789308157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-67843912363904228742010-04-01T13:38:02.889+01:002010-04-01T13:38:02.889+01:00MY forthcoming novel WILL have a few swipes at peo...MY forthcoming novel WILL have a few swipes at people who were mean to me. Very much disguised, of course, but attacking the things they said. There's nothing wrong with a little payback ... tee hee.Vanilla Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07946634138308342764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-67768714689324059542010-04-01T12:20:09.339+01:002010-04-01T12:20:09.339+01:00Hey Laurie, gimcrackgirl (twitter) / Kate L here. ...Hey Laurie, gimcrackgirl (twitter) / Kate L here. If you want a proof-reader, let me know. I copy edit and proof-read for a journal. Drop me an email if it might help. Skills sharing is important for feminists! Good luck with it, sounds like a great ideagimcrackgirlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-49282259711457428652010-04-01T12:14:17.672+01:002010-04-01T12:14:17.672+01:00Fantastic! Keep us updated. Zero seem cool, I real...Fantastic! Keep us updated. Zero seem cool, I really enjoyed Nina Power's book. You're an awesome writer and I'm looking forward to hearing what you have to say.Roaringhttp://www.rampingroaring.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-44142163339355229542010-04-01T00:39:28.665+01:002010-04-01T00:39:28.665+01:00So you're voting for a party that will ban str...So you're voting for a party that will ban strikes and attack public sector pensions and against a solid trade unionist. You should now start calling yourself Penny Yellow (in more ways than one).Dannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-12606339524666411442010-03-31T23:00:15.007+01:002010-03-31T23:00:15.007+01:00This sounds interesting. I don't suppose you&...This sounds interesting. I don't suppose you've ever read Frank Furedi's <i>Where have all the intellectuals gone</i>? It's a few years since I read it, but it outlines what sounds like a similar theme, although with a different focus.<br /><br />The only suggestion I have is to try your best to form habits. It's only by automatically going into the library after work every day, before I've even realised where I'm going, that I ever get anything significant written.<br /><br />Also, have fun!sinister agentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-13828258459283395202010-03-31T22:44:55.058+01:002010-03-31T22:44:55.058+01:00Don't panic. Your intelligence and ideas will ...Don't panic. Your intelligence and ideas will suffice to make it excellent. I look forward to buying a copy.Reubenhttp://www.thethirdestate.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4343658614010405479.post-72094920187017990792010-03-31T22:42:57.787+01:002010-03-31T22:42:57.787+01:00Try outlining it into roughly what parts you want ...Try outlining it into roughly what parts you want it to be about, then think of them as a string of posts here that have a common theme. Then tie them together a bit more and you should have a book.<br />Don't over-analyze the proses of writing a book too much. You already know how to write after all, so it should be a bit like that, except a bit longer.Illogichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08988660947978523357noreply@blogger.com