'Write 3 pages a day'
“Onecurious thing about growing up is that you don't only move forward in time; youmove backwards as well, as pieces of your parents' and grandparents' lives cometo you.” – Philip Pullman
Born on this date in 1946, Pullmanis the author of the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials. His newest work The Imagination Chamber, published in 2022, is a companion piece tothat trilogy.
A native of Norwich, England,Pullman was a teacher when his first published work, The Haunted Storm,came out in 1972. It was an instant hit,winning the New English Library's Young Writer's Award. For the next 20 years, Pullman split his timebetween writing and teaching but has been writing full timesince 1996, producing some three dozen books and several plays.
Pullman is the recipient of theAstrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council, recognizing hiscareer contribution to "children's and young adult literature in thebroadest sense.” He also is a two-timefinalist for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, given biennially to the bestwriter of fiction for children and young adults. And the LondonTimes lists him among the 50 greatest British writers of the past 80 years.
His writing advice is simple: Write 3 pages a day. “If you can't think of what to write, toughluck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished threepages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day.”
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