The scene is a writer's study, shabby, drafty but tax-deductible. The writer is reading the last hundred pages of his work in progress. For the past fifty or so, a kind of slow terror has been rising in his breast. All these pages had seemed necessary. They contain many good things. Ironies. Insights. And yet they seem to have a certain ineffable unsatisfactoriness. There is a word to describe this quality, the writer thinks, a horrible word. The B word. He begins to strike his forehead with a sweaty palm. Robert Stone
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The B word is a word that the writer uses to describe the feeling that he feels when he reads his work in progress. The B word is something that you will never want to hear if you are a writer because it means that your work sucks. However, this phrase can be used by almost anyone in any situation. For example, when you go on a date with someone and they don't seem really into it, you can use the B word to describe what's going on. You'll want to avoid doing this with your significant other because it will make them mad at you.

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