To mitigate the paralysis that continually plagues her, Didion retypes her own sentences every day from the previous days’ work, to create continuity and incorporate edits. “Towards the beginning of a book, I will go back to page one every day and rewrite. I’ll start out the day with some marked-up pages that I have marked up the night before, and by the time you get to page, maybe, 270, you are not going back to page 1 necessarily anymore, but you’re going back to page 158 and starting over from there.”
