![]() ![]() Don’t talk about it, blabbing on about your research and what you’ve read and what you plan to do. ‘When I entered the business, I believed that writers were exalted beings.’Īmbivalent writers ‘have a new idea almost every day for a writing project’. ![]() In other words, I’m ‘The Ambivalent Writer’. Writing being a verb rather than a noun, I’m a writer, now, when typing. What kind of writer are you? I don’t consider myself a writer. A loss is twice as painful as a gain, but the latter is not twice as sweet, perhaps even soured by other’s success. To ad lib William Blackstone, it is far better if ten gifted writers go unpublished that I suffer the same indignity. How writers can’t really see what they (we or I) write, but engage in magical thinking. Rather, Lerner’s book is about pattern recognition. Anne Lamott (1994) Bird by Bird, one of my favourites, is listed in her bibliography. She tells us this book is not a book about how to write. Since the publication of her book over twenty years ago, there’s more wood, more forest, more trees. ![]()
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