On What Makes a Good Writer with Kevin Wilson
Au bout du compte, je n’ai jamais travaillé de cette façon et cependant ça n’a jamais signifié que je n’écrivais pas. Tout simplement, j’écrivais de la manière qui fonctionnait le mieux pour moi. Je ne pensais à personne quand j’écrivais – je n’étais pas conscient d’un public à l’affût à l’extérieur de mon appartement et je ne me suis jamais vraime
... See moreBret Easton Ellis • White - édition française (French Edition)
Full-time authors, for example, don’t actually type for 40 hours per week because they’d have little to say if they did. Instead, they spend most of their time collecting experiences. By the time they sit down to write, they’ve already experienced what they plan to write about, even if they aren’t entirely sure about what they’re going to say. By s
... See moreDavid Perell • Daily Writing #39: Expression Is Compression
On finding your second wind:
“Sooner or later, however, a writer (or at least a writer of my type) finds himself at a crossroads: he has exhausted his initial experience of the world and the ways of expressing it and he must decide how to proceed from there.
He can, of course, seek ever more brilliant ways of saying the things he has already sa
... See moreEventually, my brain goes on strike. My brain says: You need to feel better about yourself. You need to put yourself in a situation where you can succeed more days than not, and the times you feel most successful are when you are sitting quietly at your desk, doing your work, writing your books, contemplating your characters, thinking about the why
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