The Important Things in Life

I am teaching a whole bunch of writing courses in the coming months. This will roughly coincide with a two-month period where I am much more likely to show up at this blog and goof off, rather than talking about writing and publishing, because there is only so much writing and publishing talk I can take in a given week.

And I largely hit that limit when I’m not talking about writing in general, and giving specific comments on work, which is a lot of what I’m doing at the moment.

Critiquing work stresses me out.

It also leads to a lot of goofing off, on twitter. Which has now developed into a weird daily twitter thing, with Conan references, that makes me extraordinarily happy.

I am still extraordinarily proud of the October 3 entry.

“Conan, what is best in life?”
“…hugs. It’s hugs, right? Come on, hugs are awesome.”

— Peter Ball (@Petermball) October 17, 2015

“Conan, what is best in life?”
“Not being chained to a wheel for your teenage years. Not being chained to a wheel is aces.”

— Peter Ball (@Petermball) October 28, 2015

“Conan, what is best in life?”
“Go away. Supergirl is on.”

— Peter Ball (@Petermball) April 3, 2016

“Conan, what is best in life?”
“…”
“…”
“Hold on, it’ll come to me.”

— Peter Ball (@Petermball) April 4, 2016

“Conan, what is best in life?”
“Raindrops on roses and whispers on kittens. God, it’s like you’ve never heard the damn song.”

— Peter Ball (@Petermball) April 5, 2016

Conan, what is best in life? Negotiate with your enemies. Deliver books to them. Use stories to affect change in their culture. Also: pie.

— Peter Ball (@Petermball) October 3, 2015

“Conan, what is best in life?”
“Staying home to read your favourite book when it’s grey, wet, and about to rain.”

— Peter Ball (@Petermball) April 7, 2016

“Conan, what is best in life?”
“The little piano section at the end of Faith No More’s Epic. Oh, and the guitar solo in November Rain.”

— Peter Ball (@Petermball) April 10, 2016

“Conan, what is best in life?”
“Bunnies. It must be bunnies.”

— Peter Ball (@Petermball) April 11, 2016

“Conan, what is best in life?”
“Today? Write club with @AngelaSlatter”

— Peter Ball (@Petermball) April 12, 2016

It’s obscene, how much I enjoy doing these. If I could just give up this pesky writing dream and tweet Conan jokes for the rest of my life…