Sunday, October 25, 2015

The Writer's Privileged Addiction: Retaining the Craft

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The Writer's Privileged Addiction: Retaining the Craft
Ceridwen Dovey
On Writing
What makes a person want to write fiction? There's no one answer, of course, and anybody who feels moved to do it has their own private menagerie of reasons, some of them more sanitary than others. In my experience, it often feels closest to a form of addiction. There's a beat between having a thought and writing it down, and that small pause is as pleasurable and alluring as any drug, for it's where the magic happens: somewhere between my brain and my fingers, I discover what it is I want to say.

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