The Best & Worst Writing Year
In 2019, I had the worst writer’s block of my career, and in 2019, I went on the most joyous and productive writing bender of my career. Looking back, it makes me a little lightheaded to think about how both those things can be true. I had to take a moment on this, the first day of finally-not-2019 to consider HOW I went from one to the other. It took me longer than it should have to realize I had writer’s block, because I was still writing. Every day, I was writing and revising, working on three different projects. It’s just that everything I wrote, I threw out. I threw out seven openings to one book and six to another. I wrote four entirely different plots to a single book. Instead of feeling better after I’d written for the day,... Read More
