the stereotypical wriiter

[cacian]

is there one?

[Lokasenna]

The image of a bearded, self-important, beret-wearing, chain-smoking hipster type does swim to mind. Sadly, I know several writers who actually are like that.

[PeterL]

There are many stereotypes of authors; different ones for different sorts of literature. The hipsters that Lokasena mentioned are just one minor subgroup. There are authrs who try to emulate their ideal authors, and this is a variable crowd.

Are you looking for a particular model to throw darts at?

[cacian]

There are many stereotypes of authors; different ones for different sorts of literature. The hipsters that Lokasena mentioned are just one minor subgroup. There are authrs who try to emulate their ideal authors, and this is a variable crowd.

Are you looking for a particular model to throw darts at?

haha darts? never thought of that ;)
those who emulate their ideal authors? do you have one in mind to mention?

[cacian]

The image of a bearded, self-important, beret-wearing, chain-smoking hipster type does swim to mind. Sadly, I know several writers who actually are like that.

wow...it sounds rather shaby with a let down.
why do you think that is?

[Lemonade]

The depressed Byron, who drinks cheap wine, flirts with women he can't have and lives on another's money. I think you know the kind I'm talking about.

[PeterL]

I wasn't thinking of any in particular, but that hipster is trying to be Jack Kerouac or an other Beat writer, and that are writers who try to emulate Oscar Wilde, Ernest Hemingway, E. A. Poe, Baudelaire, William S. Burroughs, Hunter S. Thompson, and any author. You probably try to emulate Emily Dickinson.