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Gay Talese on Writer’s Block

February 5, 2018

This is exactly how I feel.

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Theories of procrastination

October 31, 2016

toure_1

toure_2

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If it’s hard, why do it?

July 29, 2016

Hard Things

This graphic, from a story in the Times the other day, pretty well captures the appeal of novel-writing for me. You do it precisely because it’s difficult.

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The procrastination muse

February 3, 2015

A visit from the procrastination muse

Via

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The Writer’s Anxiety

January 15, 2015

No matter how many awards you’ve won or how many sales you’ve got, come the next book it’s still a blank sheet of paper and you’re still panicking like hell that you’ve got nothing new to say. I still panic that the ideas aren’t going to come, it’s not going to be as good as my previous book, I’ve got nothing new to say, people are fed up with me, younger writers are doing better work. There are all kinds of fears that keep pushing at you. Thank God, otherwise you’d just sit back and write any old crap.

Ian Rankin

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How you comin’ on that novel?

March 17, 2014

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Tweet of the Day

March 15, 2013

Alain de Botton tweet

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Harlan Ellison: Pay the Writer!

May 27, 2011

Wonder what Harlan Ellison thinks of writers’ blogs. If only there were someone willing to pay me for every word I write. (And yes, I get the irony: I didn’t pay Harlan Ellison for reposting this clip. But then, you didn’t pay to watch it, either.)

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