Celebrating Our One Thousandth Post With Novelists Joshua Ferris and Sherman Alexie

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Jason Boog

November 20, 2007

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Welcome to the one thousandth post over here at The Publishing Spot.

One thousand effing posts! It's been a long strange ride, and I'm glad to see you are still here. To celebrate, I have a video interviews with National Book Award winner Sherman Alexie and NBA finalist Joshua Ferris.

Both novelists have hair-raising tales of terrible first jobs, the experiences that sent them running towards the writing lifestyle. It helps to remember that even our most celebrated writers started out where you are right now.

If you are a regular at my site, you only have one real kind of work, no matter what it is you do for your dayjob. You are a writer, and writers write. Don't stop. Thanks for all your support, and keep coming back for more posts.

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1,000! Mil! That's awesome Jason. Congratulations man!

Posted by: Easton Ellsworth | November 20, 2007 11:42 AM | Permalink to Comment

Congratulations, Jason! I enjoyed the video -- especially Sherman Alexie's common-sense answer to how he keeps writing when he doesn't feel like it: "I don't."

That's what keeps writing from being the worst job ever. You can just stop and nobody gets mad!

Posted by: Richard Grayson | November 21, 2007 5:12 AM | Permalink to Comment

Congratulations on 1000 posts, Jason. That's quite an achievement.

All the best for many more great posts to come.

Posted by: Yvonne Russell | November 21, 2007 6:48 AM | Permalink to Comment

Congratulations, Jason!
I haven't forgotten about the writing contest. I just haven't had time yet.
Looking forward to the next 1000.
BTW, have you seen http://prolificbloggers.wetpaint.com/?t=anon

Posted by: Bill Belew | November 21, 2007 6:20 PM | Permalink to Comment

» Thanksgiving from ThePublishingSpot
What am I thankful for?I'm thankful for you reading this blog. I'm thankful for my thousandth post, my friends in my blogroll, and the amazing time that a holiday weekend gives you--letting me chill out for a couple days. I'll... [Read More]

Well done Boog, congrats.

Posted by: Robert Bruce | November 26, 2007 12:29 AM | Permalink to Comment

Hey Jason, congratulations! I hope you know how TPS has inspired me to be more diligent about writing on a regular basis. Keep up the great work!

Posted by: Kimberlee Morrison | November 28, 2007 4:46 PM | Permalink to Comment

» Publishing Spotted: Matt Taibbi Doesn't Like Journalism School and Joshua Ferris Hated His Dayjob from ThePublishingSpot
Did your dayjob hurt your writing?I've asked lots of writers that question, most recently in this video interview with National Book Award winner Sherman Alexie and NBA finalist Joshua Ferris. Sometimes, you just need to leave that dayjob. Jeffrey ... [Read More]

» The Best Writing Music of 2007, Part Three: Dance with Vikram Chandra and Joshua Ferris from ThePublishingSpot
Wowsa. Long day at the dayjob. Here's the highlight of the interwebs this evening: Salon.com's Best Books of 2007 List. They included two supercool writers who visited this site in 2007, including Vikram Chandra and Joshua Ferris. Also dig Cait... [Read More]

» This Is Your Brain on Cubicle from ThePublishingSpot
What happens to a writer's brain in a cubicle? That's the question Joshua Ferris answers in his National Book Award nominated novel, Then We Came to the End. Over the course of that wonderful book, he plays with narration, dayjob... [Read More]

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