I tried to come up with some amusing verbiage to go along with this photo but failed miserably. Pithy eludes me today. Maybe I left it in the pocket of my other sweatpants. So, sans pithy, I am (pick one):
Posting this photo because it will have a life-changing impact on your writing.
Strike that.
The photo will move mountains, part seas, and publishing deals will flood my in-box because of the powerful (read strong) words the photo conveys.
Strike that one too.
Truer words were never spoken and Hemingway will back me up on that.
Damn. Strike three. I’m out.
The gosh-darn-honest-truth (ever heard of a dishonest truth?) why I’m posting the photo is because it made me laugh and snort coffee out my nose. Ew.
I hope it makes you laugh too and even though I am flippant today, I believe publishing deals will come my way because of this thought-provoking post, er, flask.
If you put words to the photo, what would you say?
Cheers! Bottoms Up!
Too busy catching up to comment dear – don’t know why your posts haven’t been coming up in my Reader … but good to see you’ve been in great form nevertheless 🙂
I saw that you did a good deal of catch up here. Hope you had a good time! WordPress is funny about dropping people off follow lists. I wonder what happens with that.
To quote Faulkner: “I write books to make money to buy liquor.”
Could you imagine him saying “I write books to make money to buy salad?”
That just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
That is absolutely right! I’ve actually heard the offer to me, “Hey, you want some stuff to really help you write your story.” I love this Robin!
And did the stiff drink help in the writing of the story? Or lead to more stories about dancing on the tables?
Haha, a good writer never tells! 🙂
I snorted even before I got to the photo – eeeyeyw Robin, glad I wasn’t drinking coffee at the time.
Coffee up the nose is not pleasant.
So true! I may need a glass of wine now to think of another one! 😉
Wine this early in the morning? Shouldn’t you wait til 10:00 or so?
I think I will wait until this evening, but a mimosa would work! 😉
Now you are talking!
The pic won’t show up on my computer right now, but I trust your judgement, Robin. Good work!
It says: Alcohol. Because no great story ever started with someone eating a salad.
I knew I was going wrong somewhere… Thanks for the inspiration! 🙂
You are welcome. Let me pour you another drink.
Sometimes the muse needs a cocktail, know what I mean? ;).
And the muse loves a dry martini, shaken, not stirred. Extra olives please.
I love it!! 😎
I thought you might!
“Watership Down” might have started after eating a salad…with high alcohol dressing.
Scott
You know . . . I tried to get into “Watership Down” and just couldn’t. Maybe it was because of the salad dressing consumed while writing it.
That is quite fun! Glad I didn’t have coffee.
Ha! Coffee up the nose hurts.
The flask is misinformed. The great Wallace and Gromit movie “Curse of the Were-Rabbit” is all about vicious salad eaters.
Vicious vegetarians?
Well, not vicious, but focused and determined.
Salad eaters are that way.
Alcohol: “You can’t win friends with salad.” – Homer Simpson
Your’s is the second comment with a quote from Homer Simpson. That is too funny.
Well, he is a fountain of memories.
I don’t like to drink while I’m writing because I find if I’m concentrating on something I absentmindedly guzzle it down too quickly and then fall asleep!
I can see you with the letters dfghjkl embossed on your forehead after your head drops on the keyboard.
I love it! Granted, my murderous muse continued with that last part: “…unless it was poisoned.” (all right, bed time).
We have the making of a novel! Poisoned salad, murder, intrigue, suspense!
Yes, truer words have ne’er been spoke. Amen and amen!
I wonder where you can buy that flask. It would make great gifts for all my writerly friends here!
Okay, I got nothing. Luckily, others are more creative today! Usually I just drink water during the day, but sometimes a glass of wine doesn’t hurt the writing. Any more than that, though, and I’d better step away from the keyboard.
If I drink when I write, the words come fast and the typing gets worse. Can’t make head nor tails of it the next day and I think, “who wrote that garbage?!?”
“To alcohol! The cause of – and solution – to all of life’s problems.” –Homer Simpson
This is a first for me. Two Homer Simpson quotes on one post. I don’t think I’ve had even one Homer Simpson quote before. However, yours is a good one!
Well done—I laughed! And truer words were never spoken indeed.
I love it when I make you laugh.
LOL! Perhaps pithy eluded you because the photo speaks for itself. Thanks for sharing it with us. Gave me a giggle. (But, not to thrilled about the coffee through your nose visual) 😉
Sorry about the “coffee up the nose” visual. Note to self: don’t laugh and drink coffee at the same time.
True, alcohol is to settle your nerves AFTERwards. Ha ha ha.
Ha! What shall I pour you, my sweet?
Hemingway would definitely say that. Stephen King had very good insight on drinking and using drugs while writing on his book On Writing. He said he thought he wrote the best stuff while high, only to realize it was pure junk when he was sober. Did you know I can’t stand Hemingway? 🙂
I can’t stand him either! I’m sure Hemingway-lovers are throwing tomatoes at us right now. He is too terse for my liking.
You have to be really drunk to write that stuff. I have no idea how he managed to be so successful. But then again, there are millions of fans for Twilight and Fifty Shades of Gray…
Add blood-sucking and sex and you have a best-seller these days! I’m off to add blood and sex to my novel.
Don’t bother with bloody sex, 50 Shades did it already. That was plain gross.
My daughter read it and she said, “I don’t think you would like it, Mom. It made ME uncomfortable. I can’t imagine how YOU would feel about it.” Like I’m some prude, or something.
It would be more a waste of your time. Those are a few hours of my life I’ll never get back. I should say I only read it because of my book club.
When my book group heard it is called “Mommy Porn” they wanted to read it! It never made it to the list tho.
I’ve been doing it all wrong! I tend to drink at the end – and all through the editing process.
Start drinking early, end late. Just kidding. I can’t drink when I write. Nor can I write when I drink! Diet coke for me!
And btw, is THAT what I’ve been doing wrong all this time? I should have been drinking? Excuse me, I’ll be right back…
As they say, “Don’t drink and write.” But who are “they” anyway. Fill it to the brim!
Oh, and thank you for the reblog. How kind of you.
I actually laughed out loud when I saw that…
I’d say, “Filler up!”
Reblogged this on AllThingsBoys Blog.
heh-heh … you and LouAnn, any excuse for a party … now leave that lampshade where it is, Robin, it’s really looking like its seen better days. 🙂
LouAnn and I are getting a party-animal reputation. Wait a minute . . . you took my lampshade. Maybe YOU are the party-animal!
Just looking after it ’til next time …
Oh yeah, that’s a coffee snorter! Great fun. Thanks
Coffee hurts when it goes up your nose.
Caffeine bound to shrink up swollen sinuses?
Ha, this is great! I’m certain that Hemingway would approve.
This doesn’t exactly pertain to the picture, but the title of your post reminded me of one of my favorite NYT articles, “Falser Words Were Never Spoken.”
Hope you enjoy! http://nyti.ms/ocOEjU
That is a great article. I guess if you put anything on a coffee mug or bumper sticker it becomes “The Word Of God.” Ha! I should have attributed the quote on the flask to Hemingway. Everyone would have believed me! Kinda sounds like him.
It sure does. You certainly would have had me fooled!
Yesterday I poured a glass of wine and started work on my first draft of my new play…. it works!
Brain lubrication in the form of libations! I love it!
I’m not drinking any more this year. I’m not drinking any less, either. 🙂
HA! Glad to hear your wine budget is set for 2013.
I would say, “Two more hours ’til quittin’ time?!?!? Augh.”
It is 5:00 somewhere.
Hmm, if that salad was tainted with Salmonella, I might be able to get a great story out of it…
Leave it to you to find a health epidemic story out of a salad! Ah ha! I just gave you the premise for your next novel. You are welcome.
That actually happened you know. A group purposely contaminated salad bars with Salmonella in Oregon for political gain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Rajneeshee_bioterror_attack). Truth is stranger than fiction…
That is terrible!
I stay away from salad bars. I heard the glass canopy over a salad bar is called the “Sneeze Shield.”
Haha. That it is!
Hence, no salad bar for me!
Carrie, didn’t I give you the idea of food poisoning for terrorist purposes a few weeks ago? Remember, it was the doctors poisoning all the fast food joint supplies to stop people from eating junk food? I swear, there’s a book in there. Better than poisoning the salad bar!
That is a fantastic idea. Not to do for real, but for a book idea!
It is, isn’t it? I swear Carrie should take the story and run with it! What better way to entice people to lose weight than scare them out of fast food chain restaurants?
The US of A’s obesity problem would be no more. Go for it Carrie!
I wish I could write novels as fast as I can write a comment. So many good ideas out there!
LOL! I need that flask – it’s oh so true 😀
I wonder where you can buy it.
Hi,
Love the photo, and oh so true. 🙂
It cracked me up. But then again, I’m easily amused.
excuse me – I need a glass of wine
Come on over! I can take care of the glass of wine for you. I have some nice appetizers in the oven too.
okay–be there in 15
I’ll be there in a couple of hours. Save me some horse doovers please. Have you got any Asti Spumanti or do I need to pick up a couple of bottles? 🙂
Sounds like we have another virtual cocktail party underway!
three – one for each of us
…and lo, upon the seventh day, The Flask Of Truth revealed itself unto Robin. She knew not words to speak of it, but beckoned to all and together they gazed upon it with wondrous longing, for they thirsted for truth, or something.
HAHAHAHA. Brilliant. I should have had you write the post.
ROFLMAO!!
He cracks me up too.