It's talking about how fragile the egos of young writers are. When they first get into it, and they show friends and family, they think they're doing great until they expose it to the rest of the world and run into "haters".
I don't think it's just about young writers -- the impression I got from the liner notes* and the repetition of "it's a working day" at the end was that this is meant to be a cycle that most/all writers go through on a regular basis, that they flip-flop daily between "this is gonna be awesome!" and "oh god, I suck, why do I do this?" Even if writing is your job and you're used to the haters, you still have those moments of self-doubt. (I don't know how true this is, of course, not being a professional writer myself,...
I don't think it's just about young writers -- the impression I got from the liner notes* and the repetition of "it's a working day" at the end was that this is meant to be a cycle that most/all writers go through on a regular basis, that they flip-flop daily between "this is gonna be awesome!" and "oh god, I suck, why do I do this?" Even if writing is your job and you're used to the haters, you still have those moments of self-doubt. (I don't know how true this is, of course, not being a professional writer myself, but it seems to be what the song's saying.)
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I remember them too vaguely to quote them and don't have the CD to hand right now, but they said something about this coming out of a conversation Hornby had with another parent at his kid's school, who was also an artist of some sort.
It's talking about how fragile the egos of young writers are. When they first get into it, and they show friends and family, they think they're doing great until they expose it to the rest of the world and run into "haters".
I don't think it's just about young writers -- the impression I got from the liner notes* and the repetition of "it's a working day" at the end was that this is meant to be a cycle that most/all writers go through on a regular basis, that they flip-flop daily between "this is gonna be awesome!" and "oh god, I suck, why do I do this?" Even if writing is your job and you're used to the haters, you still have those moments of self-doubt. (I don't know how true this is, of course, not being a professional writer myself,...
I don't think it's just about young writers -- the impression I got from the liner notes* and the repetition of "it's a working day" at the end was that this is meant to be a cycle that most/all writers go through on a regular basis, that they flip-flop daily between "this is gonna be awesome!" and "oh god, I suck, why do I do this?" Even if writing is your job and you're used to the haters, you still have those moments of self-doubt. (I don't know how true this is, of course, not being a professional writer myself, but it seems to be what the song's saying.)
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