How Fast Can You Write?

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What Writers Do to Relax. Geraldine MacCaughrean on
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I write. The only time I get really miserable is when I can’t get any work done. I only put off working when a novel is proving really difficult and I know the day’s writing won’t go right.
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I also do lots of retellings… because what’s the point in keep inventing new stories when there are terrific ones already out there which people have been enjoying for centuries but which are getting forgotten? Myths, legends, folk and fairy stories, famous books (made easier) |
A writers’ party, or even an Oxford Uni party is as stimulating, refreshing and motivating for me as a complete break. Came back from today’s Society of Author’s party at Freud’s and started writing.
Asked Geraldine McCaughrean, who has written 151 children’s books what her schedule was. She said, settling down to writing was never a problem for her. Being a good wife and mother was. Remembering to pick up her children for instance.
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Philip Pullman said his daemon would be a magpie, because they steal bright shiny things. Writers pick up ideas anywhere and everywhere, and they don’t really believe in ownership.