You can't help but feel she wrote this on a dare but without putting any real thinking or writing effort into it.
It was not a success, nor was her solo writing effort two years later, a comedy called "Jenny Kissed Me," about a priest who finds his household disrupted by the arrival of his housekeeper's niece.
During the same period, and knowing that she did not necessarily have much time left, she fell out of love with herself as an essayist and put all her writing effort into her novels, The Volcano Lover and In America.
Neither is anything but ludicrous; neither shows writing effort.
The writing effort changed direction when director Sidney Franklin fell ill and was removed from the production.
After a couple of years blogging about stem cells here, I decided to direct some of my writing effort toward a book on stem cells.
If there's a fast way to publish anecdotal data in scientific journals, and which doesn't require a lot of writing effort, I think many would welcome this way of publishing.
Other points should be learned without written effort.
And the fifth was to "utilize Republican National Committee for major letter writing efforts".
Capote was more naturally a recipient ("Write me — long letters full of low gossip"), who saved his best written efforts for his books.
In a memo that traced Justice Blackmun's evolution on the issue, the clerk, Andrew Schapiro, wrote: "Efforts to fine-tune the machinery of death cannot succeed".
