writing

For me, the speaking part was easy, something like the experience of particularly quick and effortless typing: you think the words, and then the words appear on the screen, without any real awareness of the intermediary process. You think the concepts, and then the concepts express themselves. You hear yourself constructing syntactically elaborate... See more

She considered exploring her family history through biography but realised that would have involved making people relive their pain. Fantasy, however, gives the mind more space to roam, creating a familiar yet distant universe with its own logic, hierarchies and possibilities. “I’ve met a lot of readers who thought reading the trilogy was kind of a... See more

Something a lot of people struggle with is, what is the ethical standard for one to write about something? When are you allowed to mind your own family’s history? Does it ever feel icky? Does it feel like you’re profiting off of your parents and your grandparents’ trauma? And I don’t think anybody really knows the answer. I think everyone should do... See more

My heart is full and my pages are full but do they make sense to anyone but me? I cannot communicate it, I cannot write it, because I feel like I am not living.

Ele conecta bem mais com o personagem, estabelecendo que um conflito só existe porque é com aquele personagem.

First, some bad news: You will (likely) never be able to build a sustainable writing habit by motivating yourself — using fear, or excitement, or discipline — to handle high-friction writing. Motivation fades, and once it fades the friction will take over again and you will stop.

Without interesting things to study and interesting things to think about, I think that my stories would go stale really fast. Also I think the best novels that I’ve ever read changed the way that I thought about the world or taught me something that I didn’t know before, and I don’t know how you get that without constantly exploring and studying... See more

“As long as I’m passionately curious about a topic, at least one other person is going to follow me down that rabbit hole,” she rationalises. If it is difficult to tell what she’s going to do next, then that is the point, she says. “It’s only going to get weirder from here.”