(In lieu of a more substantive post, because I’ve got a Viable Paradise chat conference tonight.)
The New York Times has a series of blog posts on the process of writing, by various authors. The current one, “Writing and Fear”, by Sarah Jio, is one that ties in with my own stated maxim that writers shouldn’t flinch away from the strong stuff, even if it scares them.
There are a lot more posts in the archive. I’ve only had the chance to read a few of them, but they all look interesting.
I have a theory: writers like to read other writers talking about writing, because this can be a lonely job, and it’s always heartening to know that somebody else out there has hit that Slough of Despond in the middle of the book, or had their hard drive die without warning at the eleventh hour, taking a novel’s worth of hard work with it in its death throes, or struggled to retain their dignity in the face of an utterly wrongheaded review.
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The hard drive remark sent shivers through me. I’ve been meaning to back up my work forever – OMG – better do it right now. Thanks for the tip on the NY Times archive – sounds interesting.
YES. Back your work up right now.
(I sometimes think the best thing that happened to me, as far as computers are concerned, was having a power failure eat up most of an evening’s unbacked-up work, about a week after I got my first machine. It hammered home the lesson early on.)