Another Thing

I just found this article by Mark Haddon (author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime). It's always nice, I think, to know that even the famous writers struggle like us fanficcers do.

'Some days I can’t write. Some weeks I can’t write. It wouldn’t be such a problem if I could identify those days and weeks in advance. I’d cut my losses and go on a long run up the Thames. I’d get in a box set of Scandi crime or take the train to London for a gallery crawl. I’d paint or draw. But the realisation dawns only around lunchtime after I’ve been staring at a blank screen for hours, or filling it with laboured, unconvincing prose that will need to be deleted later.'

You can read the whole article here.