It’s no mistake that several of my posts in the last week have been about waiting and playing. Can you tell ideas are percolating? It’s true. They have to simmer a while before I can put an outline down…then put pen to paper (or fingers to the keyboard). I’m still stuck on bits of that […]
On the Difficulty of Writing
Finally. The truth, as I know it, about writing. Junot Díaz, who wrote the 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, splays it all out, in O Magazine’s November 2009 issue. You can read it here. Some writers might disagree. Some writers may sit down every morning, to be met with […]