You will think: “I suck, I’m such a failure. You will make vows: “I’m going to write for an hour every day,” and then you won’t do it. Your laziness will always disappoint you. Because your writing will always disappoint you. The more important virtue for a writer, I believe, is self-forgiveness. Her second point is about how to survive as a writer:Īs for discipline – it’s important, but sort of over-rated. I didn’t know anyone who had ever become a writer. I was writing’s most devotional handmaiden. I became a writer the way other people become monks or nuns. ”I believe that – if you are serious about a life of writing, or indeed about any creative form of expression – that you should take on this work like a holy calling. But her advice can be distilled into two main points, the first about how to start as a writer: “Keeping in mind that this is all very ephemeral and personal,” begins Elizabeth Gilbert of Eat, Pray, Love fame on her website, “I will try to explain here everything that I believe about writing.” Writing advice, by it’s nature, is contradictory - methods that work for some do not work for others, and that’s what Gilbert can’t stress enough.
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