listening to an episode of the podcast So You Want to Be a Writer. It’s one of hundreds of interviews with successful writers about how they got their big breaks. From what I can tell the secret seems to be to put actual words on pages. Any words at first, regardless of quality. If only the writing process was as easy as it feels when I’m emailing Grace chaotic stories about Mum or Charlie or work. Or when I’m writing about Cam in my journal and the story tells itself, like it’s downloaded from some deep, subconscious source.
