Ask the Author: Nicholas Lamar Soutter
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Nicholas Lamar Soutter
Well, learning to overcome it is a skill like any other. You need to practice.
Write 10 minutes a day, every day--doesn't matter on what (ramble on about how there are too many Starbucks' in the world). You'll train your brain to be able to get into writing mode easier and on command. Writer's block will become less of a problem.
Write 10 minutes a day, every day--doesn't matter on what (ramble on about how there are too many Starbucks' in the world). You'll train your brain to be able to get into writing mode easier and on command. Writer's block will become less of a problem.
Nicholas Lamar Soutter
Oh god... I have to choose? Being able to create worlds is up there. Being able to commit my imagination to something real.
Being able to say what I want to say. Nah, the best thing is easy... It's when people truly understand what you're saying--truly get it. Closest you can come to connecting with God on this green earth is when someone understands you.
Being able to say what I want to say. Nah, the best thing is easy... It's when people truly understand what you're saying--truly get it. Closest you can come to connecting with God on this green earth is when someone understands you.
Nicholas Lamar Soutter
Write every day, 10 minutes, no less. 4 hours the previous day doesn't count. Write 10 minutes on anything ("my, the curtains look beautiful" or "I hate authors who tell me to write every day"), but every day.
Nicholas Lamar Soutter
Yikes... A few essays, two or three books in various stages of completion. I'm always working on a number of projects so I can swap them out, keep myself fresh.
I don't discuss the particulars of what I'm working on. I've found that it's a lot of fun to tell people about it--you get like 80% of the thrill you'd get if you had written it... Only with 0% of the work. So pretty soon all you're doing is talking about it, because that's so much easier. So you've got to discipline yourself. Don't talk about it.
I don't discuss the particulars of what I'm working on. I've found that it's a lot of fun to tell people about it--you get like 80% of the thrill you'd get if you had written it... Only with 0% of the work. So pretty soon all you're doing is talking about it, because that's so much easier. So you've got to discipline yourself. Don't talk about it.
Nicholas Lamar Soutter
Meet new people, talk to them. I'm most interested in writing when I'm not doing it. Do something else, I'll want to write.
Nicholas Lamar Soutter
A met a former prison psychologist. He had a story to tell, and I wanted to help tell it. I had no interest in prison reform before I met Jack.
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