The importance of choosing the right subject | Dreaming Beneath the Spires

‘Sad things can happen when a writer chooses the wrong subject,’ Wilfrid Sheed once observed. ‘First the writer suffers, then the reader, and finally the publisher, all together in a tiny whirlpool of pain.’

Struggling mightily with your work is a possible sign that you have chosen something that you should not have chosen, that what you are writing is not right, should not be there at all, or not at such length

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