{"id":927,"date":"2009-03-13T20:07:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2009\/03\/13\/scenes-from-a-writers-marriage\/"},"modified":"2009-03-13T20:07:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T20:07:00","slug":"scenes-from-a-writers-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2009\/03\/13\/scenes-from-a-writers-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Scenes from a Writer’s Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n[I tried to put this in proper script format, but Blogger wouldn’t let me. Blogger and I have some Issues We Need to Work Out. We’ll be seeing a counselor soon.]\n<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

INT. WRITER’S HOME OFFICE.<\/p>\n

The room shows a mess born of obsession — papers, books, notebooks, pens and six computers; and neglect — clean laundary still unfolded in baskets, toddler toys abandoned in parade formations on the floor. Every available wall is lined with books: writing books (Characters and Viewpoint), historical books, (A History of the Plantagenets) and fiction (The Simirillian). It’s possible there’s a baby crawling on the floor somewhere, but hard to tell because of the mess.<\/p>\n

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WRITER’S HUSBAND: \u00a0We can’t pay the bills this month.<\/p>\n

WRITER:\u00a0 Um. [Beat] Do you have a plan?<\/p>\n

WRITER’S HUSBAND: My plan was for you to sell a book.<\/p>\n

WRITER: Oh. [Beat] You do realize that even if I sold a book this exact second, it wouldn’t make money for like, another two years.<\/p>\n

WRITER’S HUSBAND: Yeah. I know. My plan was for you to sell a book two years ago.<\/p>\n

[Beat.]\n

WRITER: I’m working on it.<\/p>\n

WRITER’S HUSBAND: Yeah, but you’re working on it in your<\/i> way.<\/p>\n

WRITER: What’s “my” way?<\/p>\n

WRTIER’S HUSBAND: You keep re-writing it.<\/p>\n

WRITER: Only because it still sucks.<\/p>\n

WRITER’S HUSBAND: You’ve been re-writing it for twenty years.<\/p>\n

WRITER: Not twenty! Only… [Writer visibly struggles to count on fingers] like, ten.<\/p>\n

WRITER’S HUSBAND: Even if you sold your book for a million dollars, divide that by ten years, and you’re still making less than you could at a real job.<\/p>\n

WRITER: What if I sold a book for 4.8 million? Audrey Niffenegger<\/b><\/a> just spent six years writing a book she sold for 4.8 million dollars. Of course, before that, she wrote a bestseller, The Time Traveller’s Wife.<\/p>\n

WRITER’S HUSBAND: I’d be happy if you just sold a book for one million.<\/p>\n

WRITER: I’d be happy if I just sold a book for one thousand! [laughs]\n

WRITER’S HUSBAND: I’d be happy if you just sold a book for one million.<\/p>\n

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