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On Researching While You’re Writing
(I was going to call this section On Squiddle-biddle-and-a-half, but as Skibidi is now such a crossover thing I’ve decided to be more sober and direct.)
This is some advice I often need to take myself:
In a Zero Draft, rhythm is more im...
Choosing Automatic Writing over Morning Pages
Fewer and fewer artists of all sorts are trying to create in a trance. Visual artists and musicians, as well as writers.
This is something poet and musician Anthony Joseph observed almost exactly two years ago, during his fabulous FT Princ...
Phone Notes Sometimes Taken Whilst Driving
More likely, I realise — far more likely than Scraps of Paper in a Cardboard Box (and I think I meant a Shoebox, but ‘Cardboard Box’ has a better rhythm, and rubs up nicely alongside ‘Paper’).
Hey, Siri [other digital spooks are available]...
Do you write a First Draft or a Draft Zero?
At the beginning of a new workshop, I used to tell the writers that we were in The First Draft Room.
I would say that in this place, two things hold true —
YOU ARE FORGIVEN
YOU CAN
You are forgiven because everything you are attempting...
On Scraps of Paper in a Cardboard Box
If I wrote on scraps of paper (which I don’t), I would place my cardboard box with a slot in the top just inside my front door. And I would empty my pockets or purse whenever I came in — came in with the awareness I’d made a note.
This is...
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