An eclectic bunch of Brits today, and this time I don’t mean me. The great, the surreal and the genius! Will Self is an elaborate and intricate writer so you would think that his prose would need complete silence at almost monasterial levels. However, his approach is even more complex than his writing. Apart from working on a manual typewriter (quaint yet what a pain in the ass) as early in the morning as possible he works on multiple drafts at the same time. He waits until the first draft is 80% finished and then draft two and subsequently draft [Read more…]
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Writers are Weird: Writer’s Routines (Part Two)
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Writers are Weird: Writer's Routines (Part One)
Sorry, but it’s the truth. Most are weird good, the type of weird that brings a smile to your face and an expedience to your typing. The kind of weird that your loved ones smirk at but sometimes don’t get, but they’re cool with it. But your pets are sometimes confused as hell when you’re wearing a wig and a baseball cap and dressed in a t-shirt and shorts with slippers in the shape of Scooby Doo. However some are weird WEIRD. I have tried to make a full and frank account of some of them here. Feel free to [Read more…]
Categories: Fun Stuff Tags: authors, Routines, simon j james, Stephen King, W H Auden, Winston Churchill
