What time of day do you write (and why)?
Any time of day. All the time. Because I have to. Because I like it.
How do you tackle writers block?
‘Tackle’ and ‘block’ are very mechanical words: they conjure up hoist, a pulley, a crowbar you might use to shift some big, hard lump of psychic darkness that squats between you and your next sentence. What exactly is a block? Is it a wall you can’t see over? Or is it some kind of internal difficulty, like an intestinal event?
Here’s the thing: there is no wall. You made the wall up. I usually think it is good to name a problem because a name makes it easier to fix, but to call a difficulty a block is to imagine an obstacle into existence—and why do that to yourself, when you could imagine your story instead?
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