Want to read about writing?

by David Foster
13th April 2013

You might like to look here...

http://www.dailywritingtips.com/10-anthologies-about-writing/

But as the writer says - "It is quite possible to spend the rest of your life reading about how to write and never get around to actually writing..."

Is reading "how to do it" and constant planning another form of procrastination?

David

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It's like hovering on the edge of the swimming pool. loving the clear blue water, yearning to swim like the ones with the master stroke but never plucking up the courage to just dive in. So what if you get water up your nose and gurgling in your ears! You will find that swimming (and writing) come naturally - if you let them.

I once knew an illiterate man (by his own admission) who wrote a book about the very subject I had laboured on so carefully for so long, which was highly commended by a publisher.

I was annoyed to say the least but it did promp me to speedily finish my novel.

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