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Lately, I've decided that in order to get more writing done, I should take my laptop and write during my lunch period. Now, usually I go somewhere else during my lunch period, because staying in the breakroom while one of my co-workers blasts NPR drives me nutso (I can't listen to speech type stuff as I write). But over the past couple of weeks, we've been busy, and I've cut my lunch short in order to finish things faster.
But that means I have to write in the breakroom.
The amount of heckling I've received is annoying. Granted, it's only a few people teasing me endlessly, but it's still...not cool. At first, I found it amusing that people were actually intrigued by what I was doing, if maybe a little embarassed at their enthusiastic interest. But now, not so much. How can I write when some people are quoting "Family Guy" at me? You know the scene where Stewie teases Brian about the novel he's been working on for three years?(Again, funny at first, but it got old after about the fourth time. And the fifth or sixth times. And the seventh through tenth times. I'm not kidding. And on Monday, probably the eleventh through upteenth times).
Not to mention, that after one co-worker dug more info out of me on what it was about, he basically said it was a blatant rip off of a show. I don't know what it is about non-readers/writers, but they always seem to think story ideas are exactly like [insert lame movie or show here], and thus you must've stolen your ideas. You're obviously a hack! You STOLE IT! How dare you try when you're ripping it all off of [lame show]! Their laughter screams FAILURE!
You can find common threads among anything if you look hard enough. Plus, everyone uses an idea that's been done to death and sets a spin on it. The basic idea always sounds lame and cliche.
But I have to remind myself I'm not writing this for those naysayers, all of which are professed non-readers. If there was one thing my Rhetoric teacher pounded into my head from Aristotle, whose book made me drool on myself after falling into a near coma of boredom, it is to KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE.
And these people ain't it.
Shut up and let me write.
But that means I have to write in the breakroom.
The amount of heckling I've received is annoying. Granted, it's only a few people teasing me endlessly, but it's still...not cool. At first, I found it amusing that people were actually intrigued by what I was doing, if maybe a little embarassed at their enthusiastic interest. But now, not so much. How can I write when some people are quoting "Family Guy" at me? You know the scene where Stewie teases Brian about the novel he's been working on for three years?(Again, funny at first, but it got old after about the fourth time. And the fifth or sixth times. And the seventh through tenth times. I'm not kidding. And on Monday, probably the eleventh through upteenth times).
Not to mention, that after one co-worker dug more info out of me on what it was about, he basically said it was a blatant rip off of a show. I don't know what it is about non-readers/writers, but they always seem to think story ideas are exactly like [insert lame movie or show here], and thus you must've stolen your ideas. You're obviously a hack! You STOLE IT! How dare you try when you're ripping it all off of [lame show]! Their laughter screams FAILURE!
You can find common threads among anything if you look hard enough. Plus, everyone uses an idea that's been done to death and sets a spin on it. The basic idea always sounds lame and cliche.
But I have to remind myself I'm not writing this for those naysayers, all of which are professed non-readers. If there was one thing my Rhetoric teacher pounded into my head from Aristotle, whose book made me drool on myself after falling into a near coma of boredom, it is to KNOW YOUR AUDIENCE.
And these people ain't it.
Shut up and let me write.