In which I get a great hotel on tour. The song is "A Song about Anglerfish" by Hank Green: http://dftba.com/product/vj/This-Machine-Pwns-n00bs-CD--Poster The hotel is the Hotel ZaZa in Houston. It is very, very, very nice.
The BEST HOTEL ROOM Ever
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You’re wearing my glasses!
BTW, just so you know, not all Picasso prints are highly valuable, and most come with a certificate of authenticity. I own six Rembrandt etchings, and I ain’t Buffett.
Dear John Green,
I am a new nerdfighter and frankly I don’t know why I decided to call myself one. I’m not a reader. I don’t like to read. I’m trying to find an audio book to Looking for Alaska just to get past page eleven. No reflection on you I am just a terrible nerdfighter. Well anyway Mr. Green I want to ask you a question. I don’t know why I am going to ask because I don’t know if you read the comments people send you at all or if you just pick random ones. There is a chance you will pass up my comment, in which case, begging my friend to let me use her computer to leave this comment was completely unnecessary. I’m not even sure if you will understand my question. If you see this at all you probably won’t understand what I really mean. No one does. And if you do get it you might think it’s a stupid question though the phrase “There are no stupid questions just stupid people” might apply here. I don’t even know how you would get me the answer. If you read this at all I’m guessing over Vlogbrothers, maybe? But I’m going to ask anyway.
John I am an author as well. Those I am still in high school and haven’t finished a book since I started writing three years ago and the fact that none of them are very good. That’s why I wanted to ask you this because if anyone could give me some kind of feedback on this I would think you would. John Green, how do I become an author?
Attempting to follow,
Looking for hope
Hey ‘…’,
first: there isn’t such a thing as ‘bad nerdfighters’, as long as you try to decrease the worldsuck (or increase the awesome) as good as you can; its all good and you can do it your way, you don’t have to be a book person.
second: I don’t know if he’s gonna read this, but I am affraid he won’t have time to read your writing. Its nothing personal, he just can’t read all of the stuff people send him. If you wanna hear some advice anyway, just search trough the vlogbrothers videos, the “hankgames” videos and through old tumbl and vlog posts. He did answer some questions and tryed to give advice.
I like to write myself and I have only one question to you: how did you start writing if you don’t like reading? Because the best advice you can get is from other authors! Just have a read through some books of the genere you like to write and look how they solved their plot problems, get to know the way they write and so on. Someone said to me once: You have to ask yourself if you’d like to read the things you have written.
So, don’t give up and start reading so you can improve your writing!
Good luck and DFTBA!
P.S: There are no stupid questions, only stupid answers.
Dear Pauline,
The day after I sent my first message I realized that with his new release of The Fault in Our Stars I picked the worst time for me to send him something I actually want him to answer. No luck on finding the audio book to Looking for Alaska and I am still only on page 29. Fail. I should thank you for replying to my comment, especially since I had no faith anyone would hear me when I sent it. Why am I sending you this now . . . I don’t know. Once again I’m back to the possibility that either you really didn’t want an answer and/or don’t care what I say. I guess this is what my friend calls, “Branching out and taking risks” since they were so proud I asked John Green a question. How did I start writing? I guess it’s mainly because I’m kind of surrounded by authors. My sister is an English major and she used to read to be before we grew up and she went to college. I have a friend that writes novels and they tell me all about their books so I guess it made me wanna try it. Your theory that “there are no stupid questions, only stupid answers” is . . . Interesting. It makes me wonder, would you think a question is stupid if the person asking it already knows the answer? Maybe there is something in the process of reading a book that I don’t understand. I’ve always hated reading, even when I was young and that hasn’t changed even though I am writing novels now. Maybe the fact that I can’t finish reading a book is connected to the reason I’ve never finished writing one. I must have fifty books I have written with only five or less chapters in them, left to decay in their incompletion. Whatever.
Blaring iPod now,
Looking for hope
http://caorthine.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/book-babbling/
someone blogged about The Fault in Our Stars. Thought you would like the post :)