Comments on: Today

By: sdn

sdn — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:09:57 +0000

listen, when it comes to school most of us are lazy and disorganized. i could not have cared less about, say, the fertile crescent or making a diorama out of gum or whatever.

underachievers unite!

By: Terry Weyna

Terry Weyna — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 20:04:09 +0000

I don’t see how one can be lazy or disorganized and still manage to put together multiple books in a single year — or a single lifetime. So you’ve at least overcome those childhood issues, right?

By: Susan Loyal

Susan Loyal — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 18:21:04 +0000

I can’t square the amount you accomplish in a single year with the descriptors “lazy” and “doesn’t apply himself.” If you can edit six anthologies on top of a day job and being a dad and husband by being “lazy”, you’d be truly frightening in “energetic” mode. I’m forced to assume that (tip of the hat to T. E. Lawrence) it was just your manner.

By: Faren

Faren — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:32:56 +0000

Gee, are my own self-deprecating winter mopes making their way to summery Oz? (Well yeah, I did send you that email….)

You’re a fine, dedicated multi-tasker and I hope the gloom will vanish ASAP!

By: Garth Nix

Garth Nix — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 11:46:15 +0000

Your school reports just mean you were bored with school — which is normal. If they’d offered anything interesting I’m sure you would have applied yourself and been anything but lazy, as is the case with your literary work.

I also bet many of your teachers would envy your family life, be greatly impressed by your body of work, and be really jealous that you are a friend and colleague of so many famous writers around the world.

So quit this self-loathing crap and get back to your desk, Mr Strahan. Show some application, for heaven’s sake! Anything under a dozen anthologies in 2007 will be considered lazy!

P.S. There’s still got to be something better and more original than “Universe”