Aimee Bender on Writing Without a Plan ‹ Literary Hub
Aimee Bender on Writing Without a Plan ‹ Literary Hub
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Section titled “Highlights”- Soon after that lunch, I felt myself struggling with a novel that I later drawered (and later than that, pillaged). I wrote a sign on a piece of printer paper with a Sharpie and stuck it above my computer that said: There is no book in your mind.
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- Note: There is no WEBSITE in your mind. There is no BLOG POST in your mind.
- For me, the page is all I get, and the page is what makes the soup of the mind into something tangible. If there is no book in my mind, then the only way I can find a book is by writing it. This act of writing is how I get access to the material I might not readily know about. We cannot read each other’s minds, and the truth is, we often cannot really read our own.