I loved this. Such a great breakdown and framing of the challenging journey of any creative pursuit.
But then, after a few minutes of dumbfounded staring — you don’t have a breakthrough, exactly, but you glimpse a possibility.
Eureka moments are fun but they're few and far between. Summoning the energy to pursue those slight (sometimes ever so) glimpses of possibility is the best hope for a productive or at least non-zero day.
One year later, finally read this! Awesome!! Ben Dolnick is a true writer’s writer. I loved this too.
In fiction writing you are of course both the maker and the solver, but the sense of discovery — the feeling that whole sublayers of structure and theme have been created by a stranger with your pleasure in mind — is no less acute.
I loved this. Such a great breakdown and framing of the challenging journey of any creative pursuit.
Eureka moments are fun but they're few and far between. Summoning the energy to pursue those slight (sometimes ever so) glimpses of possibility is the best hope for a productive or at least non-zero day.
One year later, finally read this! Awesome!! Ben Dolnick is a true writer’s writer. I loved this too.