Writer's block, an owner's guide: Still I write
Yes, it’s going slower, for perfectly good reasons that regular readers know about. But here’s the thing: there are now almost 32,000 words on this web site, and I have put very little effort into putting them here over the last 15 or 16 months. Blogging works as a way of building up a body of work. And it works as a way of thinking aloud and figuring out what I wish I had been intending to write about when I sat down.
None of this should be taken to mean that I think even a quarter of the stuff on this site is worth reorganising into, say, a book. But by god it’ll be so much easier to use this as the core of some eventual Writer’s Block Book and to edit it until it’s unrecognizable, than it would be to start with a pile of white paper staring at me. If you don’t know that in your heart and spirit already, you are not the kind of person I have been writing for.
Published on October 14, 2005 at 12:15 am. Linking to this article? Thank you! The permanent address is http://www.todayiwrite.com/journal/still-i-write.html
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