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To Write or Not to Write
Aug. 19th, 2010 12:31 pmFrom Slate.com - What Took You So Long? The quiet hell of 10 years of novel writing.
There is surely a word—in German, most likely—that means the state of active non-accomplishment. Not just the failure to reach a specific goal, but ongoing, daily failure with no end in sight. Stunted ambition. Disappointed potential. Frustrated and sad and lonely and hopeless and sick to death of one's self.
The part that most resonated with me:
"Writing is hard—writers say this all the time, and I think probably only other writers believe it. But it's not nearly as hard, in my experience, as not writing."
Yeah. This.