Inside The Writing Life: Writing Novels, Posting Blogs

A question I occasionally get asked is whether blogging interferes with my writing.

The answer, in the best Tolkien’s elf style, is both “no” and “potentially yes.”

It’s “no” because for me they’re very different styles of writing and so I can be exhausted after working on the novel, but “switch brains” to doing a blog post, which seems to tap a different creative well.

As I believe I may have indicated previously, novels and the writing thereof are not unlike marathons, or “Ironman” events (b...