Barbara Kingsolver’s advice on writer’s block… QUOTES FOR WRITERS

It doesn’t matter how many books I’ve published, starting the next one always feels as daunting as the first. A day comes when I just have to make a deal with myself: write something anyway, even if it’s awful. Nobody has to know. Maybe it never leaves this room! Just go. Bang out a draft.
Barbara Kingsolver

3 comments on “Barbara Kingsolver’s advice on writer’s block… QUOTES FOR WRITERS”

ksbeth
January 6, 2019

great advice!

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- bridget whelan
  January 10, 2019
  
  Glad you like it as much as I do.
  
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Cynthia Reyes
January 31, 2019

That’s good advice. So many times, we wait for “inspiration”, but the act of writing itself can be a trigger.

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