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Then I sit there and muse about what to write that day . Such moments are pure bliss . To tell the truth , I have never found writing painful . Neither ( thankfully ) have I ever found myself unable to write . What’s the point of writing , anyway , if you’re not enjoying it ? I can’t get my head around the idea of “the suffering writer . ” Basicall... See more
Haruki Murakami • Novelist as a Vocation
the creative process is not a perfectly efficient process. It requires you to play with ideas, create new connections among ideas, disregard earlier thoughts, and synthesize disparate themes. It can be slow and frustrating and can feel like a waste of time. If this resonates with your experience, you are in good company.
Peg Boyle Single • Demystifying Dissertation Writing: A Streamlined Process from Choice of Topic to Final Text
believe plotting and the spontaneity of real creation aren’t compatible. It’s best that I be as clear about this as I can – I want you to understand that my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves. The job of the writer is to give them a place to grow (and to transcribe them, of course).
Stephen King • On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Arranging things end to end like this is the first step when you edit a film. In cinema jargon this first version is called the assembly cut, and nobody in their right mind can believe it’ll result in something watchable – or readable if it’s a book. And then, once you’ve overcome the urge to toss the whole thing out, you get down to work, you asse
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