The Polish Experience By Nicholas Westerby This ... - GetSab.Com

“No. I won the feature writer for Eastern European Development Publications.”
I actually fell off my stool laughing.
“What the fuck? Then I won the most improved managerial achievement award
within my own office and employee of the month the last six weeks.”
I hailed the barmaid for another drink while the award winning journalist
stomped off to another round of back slapping and jolly-ho’s.
I got my drink and felt revitalised enough to start mingling. I met a lot of boring
people but I had never been in a room with so many aspiring writers who
weren’t actually writing. I heard tons of bad plots, woes of writers block which I
always countered with, ‘Wayne Rooney never seems to get footballers block’.
They’d invariable say that he had off games but miss the point that he still
actually played. Writers write bad books, some writers never write a good book
but if you can’t write it isn’t writers block it’s just that you’re not a writer.
My favourite example was one of the teachers who babbled on about his story
set in Roman times following various leaders and warriors lives. It sounded
suspiciously like the BBC and HBO TV show ‘Rome’ but when I mentioned it
to the guy he snapped back furiously that he ‘had thought of it first’. That show
had already finished two seasons so if he had thought of it first, how the fuck
hadn’t he finished his book?
I was also quiet sure that you can’t claim to have thought of a story about Rome
first. I know there is a Hollywood trend where they like to copy successful