You will feel discouraged; you will lose confidence in your abilities; you will be bored with the charactersโand the only way to overcome these obstacles is to write your way through them. And writing always works.
John DufresneI sat around the kitchen every Sunday afternoon listening to my mother and aunts talk about the people in the neighborhood. Gossip - I loved it. And that turns out to be the writer's job: to attend to the gossip and spread it as far as you can.
John DufresneWriting a story, you understand, is not done by consensus. But we do learn from each other, and we remind ourselves how important this work we're doing is.
John Dufresne