The Writing Life
Some of my writing projects are intense—i.e., upwards of fifteen, if not more, hours spent researching, writing, and revising. When I face those kinds of projects, I have to focus. It’s almost like developing tunnel vision. I focus on one task, and one task alone.
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To be a writer is to choose the work of limiting. You focus on one thing and not another. You know the other thing is there; it’s peeking its head around the corner or out of a hole, sticking its tongue out, cocking its head, jabbering in a foreign tongue—some nonsense about a tea party?—and you feel the temptation to follow. You want to know where the other creature goes, what its story is, why it acts the way it does.