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Bec Lloyd I have been writing for a living for my whole adult life so this doesn't happen to me often, but when it does I've learned what to do: walk away.
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I have been writing for a living for my whole adult life so this doesn't happen to me often, but when it does I've learned what to do: walk away.
I walk away from the keyboard and do things with my hands - cook, draw, sort laundry, pack the dishwasher, make someone else a cup of tea, feed the ducks (seriously: they're permanently starving), it doesn't matter what it is as long as it's not something using the writing part of your brain.
If you let your mind slip into autopilot while you do physical things, it's amazing how often the next idea or solution pops out all by itself in a little hallelujah moment.
On the other hand, the worst thing I can do if I'm blocked is kid myself that I should write to a word count or a time period. It will just be rubbish and I'll end up deleting it anyway. (less)
Bec Lloyd Write for yourself, always, even if you think your book's purpose is to entertain or educate other people.

There's a vast difference in the way you wri…more
Write for yourself, always, even if you think your book's purpose is to entertain or educate other people.

There's a vast difference in the way you write for yourself and the way you write for other people. Your tone changes, your words change - just like when your dad answers the phone in a voice he never uses anywhere else.

If you write for yourself, you will have a book you love at the end.
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"Prep for an In Convo with Kathy Lette in Feb. A woman tries to pull her life back together when her husband leaves her after their son gets an Autism diagnosis. Absolutely roasts a certain well known TV Chef. "
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Lots of joy in this one - listened to Joanna Lumley on audio book.
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Oscar Wilde
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”
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Alan Paton
“The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.”
Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

Alan Paton
“We do not know, we do not know. We shall live from day to day, and put more locks on the doors, and get a fine fierce dog when the fine fierce bitch next door has pups, and hold on to our handbags more tenaciously; and the beauty of the trees by night, and the raptures of lovers under the stars, these things we shall forego. We shall forego the coming home drunken through the midnight streets, and the evening walk over the star-lit veld. We shall be careful, and knock this off our lives, and knock that off our lives, and hedge ourselves about with safety and precaution. And our lives will shrink, but they shall be the lives of superior beings; and we shall live with fear, but at least it will not be a fear of the unknown. And the conscience shall be thrust down; the light of life shall not be extinguished, but be put under a bushel, to be preserved for a generation that will live by it again, in some day not yet come; and how it will come, and when it will come, we shall not think about at all.”
Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

Alan Paton
“There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.”
Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

Alan Paton
“And were your back as broad as heaven, and your purse full of gold, and did your compassion reach from here to hell itself, there is nothing you can do.”
Alan Paton, Cry, the Beloved Country

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