Why are they reading me for filth? THIS: If you’ve spent most of your life cruising ahead on natural ability, doing what came easily and quickly, every word you write becomes a test of just how much ability you have, every article a referendum on how good a writer you are. As long as you have not written that article, that speech, that novel, it could still be good. Before you take to the keys, you are Proust and Oscar Wilde and George Orwell all rolled up into one delicious package. By the time you’re finished, you’re more like one of those 1940’s pulp hacks who strung hundred-page paragraphs together with semicolons because it was too much effort to figure out where the sentence should end...Work finally begins, says Alain de Botton, when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly. -- The Atlantic
Posted on: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 21:42:32 +0000
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