"'Yours to Bear' was the purest collaboration that we've ever had in the sense that we came with nothing to writing and came out with pure improvisation between both of us," Jaffe said.
It's in special measures and is undersubscribed, with results that are nothing to write home about.
With nothing to do but write, he embarks on a rambling letter to an estranged lover, narrating both the story of their relationship and that of his ancestors, time-obsessed clockmakers from Central Europe.
When it is cold at home, or he has a couple of weeks with nothing to do but write his Times column, or when something unexpectedly stressful happens, like winning the Nobel Prize, the Princeton economist Paul Krugman and his wife, Robin Wells, go to St. Croix.
To bow or not to bow, what to say, how to dress: these are anachronisms promoted solely by the curiosity and mischief of journalists with nothing better to write about.
With nothing to lose, I wrote an email in German to the head teacher asking if they would be interested in employing an English language assistant.
At one point, with nothing to do, Alan starts writing to his daughter to persuade her to forgive her mother, the ex-wife who has all but destroyed him.
These ground troopers will be writing with nothing to lose, and everything to gain from making a splash.
