ClancyBoy

Quantify the amount of suffering and use the attached Wong-Baker Pain Scale when formulating your answer.

I wish I knew how to post polls.


For me it's an 8; my writing causes me to lose both my appetite and sleep.

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biggles

I'd say worst possible pain when you kid yourself you are on to a good thing.
Your sense of humour prevails ClancyBoy

The Backward OX

Would grunting out a turd (don't look at me - Erica Jong said it first) be classed as art? If so, I am a 4.

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ClancyBoy

That's the worst possible condition. If you suffer so much you need to be confined to bed, you can't write! That only compounds the suffering!

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"Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons wait for you down there. Little pets they are, little little little pets. Cute little things, they say. Don't you believe it. No man ever saw them and walked away alive. You won't either. That's the final dash, flash. That's the utter clobber, cobber." --Cordwainer Smith, Norstrillia.

biggles

I'm not confined to a bed WTF? Umm ok you asked the question and then you negate it. That's not plausible.

biggles

OK , you are putting forward a poll in order to weed out the fracas you cannot entertain.
What do you expect to learn from that?

The Backward OX

CB posed the question “how much do you suffer etc” and you replied “worst possible pain” which on his scale equates to Bed Rest Required. So I reckon it’s perfectly understandable for him to say “If you suffer so much you need to be confined to bed, you can't write!”
What isn’t understandable is for you to come back with a half-arsed remark like this.

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Hawke

I'm not at all sure my work could come close to the word "art," but anyway... Since I don't actually feel "pain" when writing (even though other tasks and things like basic needs, etc., tend to be shelved during the odd all night marathon stint), I'd have to say 0. I notice there aren't any "doing things detrimental to one's own health" choices in the list, such as caffeine overload or chainsmoking... *grin*

I don't "suffer" to write. I enjoy every second of it, mainly because it's just who and what I am. Unless the work doesn't work out that is, or my muse decides to take off to Tibet for almost a year. Again.

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lin

GOD I hate that stupid fucking pain scale. They always ask that in military hospitals. Like if you can't distinquish between mild and moderate, but can quickly reduce it to meaningful numbers. Stupid bastards.
And that's without even getting into the fact that pain is subjective, unreliable as a symptom...especially sublte gradations.
Everybody has seen one person reduced to tears by torn nail while another is walking around laughing about the knife in his ribs.
The FOOLS!!!! Genius IS pain!!!!!!!!!!

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Der_Parvenu_Meister

Do they really use that facial pain system in American hospitals? Imagine being shot in the leg and a medical student says " Oh, geez, I bet you're a ten!"

ClancyBoy

I'm laughing so hard the pain in my side is at least a 4.

Mostly in places where there are a lot of minorities who don't speak English.
I trimmed off the part of the image that had the pain scale translated into 10 different languages INCLUDING Farsi.

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