Maggie O'Farrell
The best advice I was given was ‘keep going’. Even it it’s a bad day or week or month and putting words on a page feels like pulling teeth, keep going. You might end up throwing up two thousand words but there could be a sentence or a paragraph or even a metaphor in there that nails something further down the line. That said, it’s also a good idea to walk away from your desk for a while. Sometimes going for a walk solves everything.
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