Fact & Fiction Bookshop: Writer

Fact & Fiction Bookshop: Writer

Confession of an obsessive reader.

Advertising Agency: Saatchi & Saatchi, New Delhi, India
Copywriter: Abhishek Deshwal
Art Director: Abhishek Singh
Creative Director: Vijay Simha

Your rating: None Average: 7.1 (21 votes)

Comments

Submitted by Baloonatic on Fri, 2008-03-14 08:29.

eh?

Submitted by Alistair Craven on Fri, 2008-03-14 08:31.

hahaha, nice copy & insight. But it's not true that most good works come out of pain and misery.

Submitted by Jet Propulsion Lab on Fri, 2008-03-14 16:19.

You're probably right. You don't have to have grown up in a dysfunctional family environment to be a great writer.
But this is still a good joke (or truth) people tell others about creativity.

Submitted by krautland on Fri, 2008-03-14 16:56.

yes, it's a cliche. but it's one that resonates.
thumbs up for that.

the art direction on the other hand is boring.

Submitted by T-bone on Fri, 2008-03-14 08:57.

No. This campaign should have been shot by the creatives (or perhaps, and I'm starting to think, it was the suits who did these) before it even made it into internal review. Sorry.

Submitted by Wordnerd on Fri, 2008-03-14 09:05.

Smart line! very good!

Submitted by Dick Van Dyke on Fri, 2008-03-14 09:33.

this campaign captures the pathos of being a writer very well. whoever's bitching about it doesn't know shit about being a writer.

Submitted by sburns4 on Fri, 2008-03-14 15:56.

and you do?

you're in advertising. get over yourself.

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Submitted by Charlie Pratt on Fri, 2008-03-14 10:19.

High controversy on this one - must have hit a nerve. As a writer, I laugh, because I've actually said that to my father. But I can imagine that few others have. Not sure what to think about this ad. It's very easy to absorb, though.

http://www.charlieprattdesign.com

Submitted by vote4pedro on Fri, 2008-03-14 10:27.

doesn't do it for me

Submitted by tom tong baboon on Fri, 2008-03-14 11:52.

Baboon, go Daniel!

Submitted by but_why on Fri, 2008-03-14 17:45.

These are rubbish - ddddddddddduuuuuuuuuuuuuulllllllllllllll

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Submitted by picktokyo on Fri, 2008-03-14 19:40.

It will offense a few good writer who has a happy childhood such as Burton.

Submitted by Jet Propulsion Lab on Fri, 2008-03-14 19:59.

You say you're a writer. But just look at your sentence... What's up with that?

Submitted by Baloonatic on Mon, 2008-03-17 05:21.

Perhaps he/she is a writer in a different language to English? try converting text in a different language (spanish for example) text English, it often looks stilted.

Submitted by tom tong baboon on Fri, 2008-03-14 21:21.

All negative comments, excreta-faced.

Submitted by surebud on Mon, 2008-03-17 15:05.

This copy does not suggest that only those who went thru a struggle or some from of dysfunction are bound to be great writers...It is about the human insight that people...na na na wait READERS want to read about peoples struggle/pain/misery and hardship...The copy is DOPE - very insightful

Submitted by Jury on Tue, 2008-03-18 03:09.

is this advertising?

Submitted by Shel-Man on Fri, 2008-05-16 07:03.

Fkin excellent! HAHAHA! It's pretty funny!