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MEMBER BLOG TAG: frustration

Monday, November 3, 2008 2:37PM
 
This, too, shall pass
Tags: writing process, despair, frustration, joyce, carol shields, lincoln, conrad
 

There comes a moment -- often many moments -- as one writes a novel, when it all seems quite hopeless. A moment when the writer desires nothing more than to emit a loud raspberry sort of noise, and fall into a swoon on the nearest soft surface.

And thus, you find me. Oh, I’m still writing – chugging out my allotted number of words a day, but dear, oh dear, it is a painful process just now.

Not as painful as a story I once heard...

 
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