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lobelia321To cleanse myself of Horror Institution horror, I went to a café after work and started writing a second novel. (11)
I feel bereft without my novel-in-a-month. It gave a purpose to my life! To my every waking moment! A pocket of unused time? No problem! Write novel! Now I just sit around. I am also so grateful for having had that enforced long-hand time. It really showed me how portable novel-writing is and how it can be whipped out anytime, anywhere, as needed.
That's how to rid myself of end-of-novel blues: write another one. (I still haven't read the first one. I've run out of ink cartridges to print it out.)
Our friend Phil Hensher who is a novelist visited on the weekend and I fangirled. He writes all his novels in long-hand. I asked him for nuggets of wisdom re writing a novel. First nugget: Never denigrate your writing to anybody. (I cried: But what if it is drivel? He said: Just tell yourself that, and nobody else, and go about fixing it and making it better. Oh, I thought, is that all?) Second nugget: Don't use the writing to punish yourself or anyone else.
It's a bit like asking the meaning of life and getting the answer 42, isn't it?
(-: The bastards will not grind me down. They will not. I cannot allow them. (T'h is anxious now and worries lest I too top myself. Really, I work in a ludicrous house of madness.)
As they would say in German: Jetzt erst recht. (How would you translate that??)
I feel bereft without my novel-in-a-month. It gave a purpose to my life! To my every waking moment! A pocket of unused time? No problem! Write novel! Now I just sit around. I am also so grateful for having had that enforced long-hand time. It really showed me how portable novel-writing is and how it can be whipped out anytime, anywhere, as needed.
That's how to rid myself of end-of-novel blues: write another one. (I still haven't read the first one. I've run out of ink cartridges to print it out.)
Our friend Phil Hensher who is a novelist visited on the weekend and I fangirled. He writes all his novels in long-hand. I asked him for nuggets of wisdom re writing a novel. First nugget: Never denigrate your writing to anybody. (I cried: But what if it is drivel? He said: Just tell yourself that, and nobody else, and go about fixing it and making it better. Oh, I thought, is that all?) Second nugget: Don't use the writing to punish yourself or anyone else.
It's a bit like asking the meaning of life and getting the answer 42, isn't it?
(-: The bastards will not grind me down. They will not. I cannot allow them. (T'h is anxious now and worries lest I too top myself. Really, I work in a ludicrous house of madness.)
As they would say in German: Jetzt erst recht. (How would you translate that??)
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Date: 2007-04-25 07:42 am (UTC)guesstransliteration? - "the present is merely relative" ....?????(no subject)
Date: 2007-04-25 01:03 pm (UTC)But on the other hand, must keep chipper. Your pal is right, I'm sure.
A second second-novel! you win the day!