to redeem the first book by writing a second
14th June 2017 | for Creatives | your 1st book, create for YOURSELF, artist integrity, creative fear, novel writing, writing, creative block, Joel Fishbane |
"The urge to produce another—to redeem the first book by writing a second—led to my own spurt of inefficient frenzy, which didn't result in anything of worth. I was stalled, not be writer's block, but by the conviction that whatever I wrote had to be of superior worth."
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