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When they do a bunch of sequels, same character over and over...that's when you know they have writer's block
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more like writer's cock
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>4 novels with the same character written over 3 decades
>also wrote a dozen novels, few poetry collections, lots of short stories and essays during those 3 decades
Clear case of writer's block.
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>>25235768
Yeah. Problem with Updike is that he couldn't STOP writing unless you shoved a fat asshole in his face.
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>>25235773
What will it take to stop you from posting?
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>>25235781
A Snickers bar.
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>>25235766
>what's updyke?
what ever happened to butterfly and cumgenius?
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>>25235768
Maybe it applies to other authors more. Not just him.
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>>25235766
What's Updyke?
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Is it...wrong to be nostalgic for that time when being a writer and writing a big novel series over entire decades was a thing that people cared about and which the public read and appreciated if they turned out well? Where it was still feasible to become a celebrity on account of nothing else but being a novelist or a poet or whatever? I wasn't even born when that was still a thing, but still...
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>>25236059
He was a writer
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>>25235843
>butterfly
Turned off the trip.
>cumgenius
Posts on /mu/.
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Rabbit Redux follows Rabbit Run not Rabbit At Rest...
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>>25235768
Projection
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>>25235766
It seems to be a marketing strategy on Amazon. I see books that are part of like 60+ series installments, all vaguely about the same topic, following the same character (usually a woman doing some typically male investigation job). I can't imagine how terrible they must be.



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