Humor
A Taunting of Blank Pages and Other Collective Nouns for Your Writing Life
Your dictionary’s missing these essential terms
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- An optimism of fancy notebooks
- A moonbeam of poets
- A taunting of blank pages
- An upchuck of rough drafts
- A snark of comedy writers
- An IOU of beta readers
- A second mortgage of submission fees
- An envy of bylines
- An insufficiency of affirmations (See also: an exhaustion of friends)
- A navel-gaze of memoirists
- A nitpicking of copy-edits
- A personal attack of rejections (See also: a wallowing of tacos)
- A whiteness of canonical texts
- An angst of novelists
- A fiction of author bios
- An overstimulation of literary festivals (See also: a statement of questions, a hangover of receptions, a conspicuousness of name drops, an imposter syndrome of networking events)
- A heightening of comedy writers
- A pandering of markets
- A prestige of residencies
- A vampire of what’s-at-stakes
- A purgatory of freelance jobs
- A $1.17 of Medium earnings
- An enigma of 1099s
- A GENIUS of editors (See also: an obviousness of flattery)
- A procrastination of revisions
- A resurrection of darlings
- A rule-of-three of comedy writers
