‘Liberation isn’t all that’s needed to achieve the long-haul goal of a novel, it takes discipline too which I’ve found most easily applied in the early morning before the demands and distractions of the day.’
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‘Great writers… write how they want. If they want to tell without showing, they do. Read Henry James if you don’t believe me. ‘
‘I found it so much easier to pick up the next day where I left off, to finish what I left unfinished.’
‘When I’m in editing mode I almost can’t read other writers’ work, because everything feels overwritten. I can’t stop my internal editor adding imaginary comments.’