Mark Scarbrough
Dancers dance. Singers sing. Writers write. It's hackneyed advice, but it's nonetheless true. I worked for four years on my memoir--and I ran to my desk every time I had the chance to work on parts of it. (My husband and I also published six cookbooks over those four years--and those books kept me plenty busy.) Now that my memoir is out, I've stopped writing my own stuff--which is a terrifying prospect. (We do have another cookbook due to Little Brown in December.) In other words, I know this truth from experience: that lull when you're not writing. The only way out is to go back to it. Me, too. It's painful and scary. I've printed off a bunch of fragments at least half a dozen times. Thrown them away that many times. Because I'm letting my own fears stand in the way of what happens next. But writers write. Me, too.
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