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Writing requires discipline, but disciplined writers are not necessarily prolific. Most good work gets produced over time, sometimes many years, allowing the writer to grow with the material, to allow her world, her command over craft, and her psychological maturity to coalesce at just the right moment to produce something of value. This process often involves dreadful periods of not writing, or, worse, periods of writing very badly, embarrassingly badly. As time passes in a writing life, the writer learns not to fear these arid periods. The words come back eventually. That’s the real discipline: to train the mind and heart into believing that words come back.
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Be willing to wait. In the meantime, write when you don’t feel like it. If you can’t write, read.
Monica Wood, The Pocket Muse (masculine pronouns changed to feminine)
I needed to hear this today.
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And again today.
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(See also: the Law of Undulations)
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pronunciation | koy nO yO-kan
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In Japanese, tsundoku means, “the act of buying books and not reading them, leaving them to pile up.”
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Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun
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You have no idea, do you?
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“He threw all those parties, hoping she’d wander in one night.”
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