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#TomGauld on #Bluebeard – #cartoon | #Books | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/books/picture/2024/apr/20/tom-gauld-on-bluebeard-cartoon

Bluebeard is going to visit his agent and tells his beloved manuscript that it can do what it pleases except open the locked drawer. The manuscript cannot resist and opens the drawer to find a pile of unfinished and abandoned manuscripts who wail and warn the current one.

1y

Story structure can be good, it can also make it painfully obvious. Personally I prefer not being able to guess the ending after the first chapter... 🤔😁

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One panel comic by Tom Gauld showing a tall man and a short elf walking over a mountain.
The elf reading a book says, "We've had our "inciting incident" and we're on the "journey" so it seems like we'll be having a "crisis" any minute now..."
The man looking annoyed replies, "This quest was a lot more fun before you got that book on story structure."

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It may seem like it, but buying things just for the sake of buying them is not happiness. Instead enjoy the things you already have 😊

And I say that as someone who has a book for sale 😁

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A six panel comic by Tom Gauld with a little man sitting infront of his laptop.

1: YOUR ORDER HAS BEEN RECEIVED!
2: YOUR ITEM HAS BEEN DISPATCHED!
3: YOUR PACKAGE HAS BEEN DELIVERED!
4: YOUR BOOK HAS BEEN NEGLECTED: LEFT ON THE SHELF, UNREAD AND FORGOTTEN, GATHERING DUST FOR SEVERAL MONTHS.
5: The little man looks concerned.
6: YOUR ORDER HAS BEEN RECEIVED!

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If procrastinating was an olympic sport, I'd have ALL the medals 😂

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Three panel comic by Tom Gauld

MATHEMATICAL PROBLEMS FOR NOVELISTS
1: Susie has written 12 chapters of a novel. Her editor asks her to cut 3 chapters and rewrite 8 chapters.
How many glasses of wine does Susie drink that night?

2: Every day Paul spends 3 hours procrastinating, 2 hours worrying, and 1 hour napping.
How long until the publisher asks Paul to repay his advance?

3: Anne writes a new novel every 6 months. 75% of Anne’s novels are bestsellers and 66% win literary prizes.
How much do you hate Anne?

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Do what you can and jump straight to acceptance 😁

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Comic with a couple reading in bed.

Caption: THE FIVE STAGES OF GRIEVING FOR AN OVERAMBITIOUS READING RESOLUTION

DENIAL: No, finishin a book every 2,7 days is not absurd!
ANGER: Why are all these books so long!!
BARGAINING: If you read a book and tell me about it, that counts, right?
DEPRESSION: All joy has fled, yet my failure persists!
ACCEPTANCE: Being at one with the art is all that matters. And next year I'm going to be at one with so much more art!

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