Status Updates From How I Write: The Secret Liv...

It's so interesting to read about the various things that inspire/make writers write. Personally, it's a cup of tea/coffee; no tea/coffee, no writing.

I feel like this is the ultimate book for procrastinating as a writer; you're not only reading about writing but writers and their lives. It's, so far, very well put together. I'm looking forward to reading more of it.

I write ideas, tropes, images, observations, snippets of dialogue, themes, descriptions on these Post-it notes and put them in relevant zones on the wall. Then I organize them into scrapbooks, then I turn them into books. Then I write more ideas, etc., on Post-it notes. And so it goes on: the auto-cannibalization of the fictive world. All creative artists fetishize their working methods -- ... (p. 20)