Nominees for the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary awards share their tips on tackling the monster that plagues all writers
Write absolute garbage for 10 or so minutes until you’re rid of the fear of being a bad writer, or dull, or too vulnerable. There’s nothing you will put on the page that will ever have to stay there. There’s nothing you will write that you have to expose to the terror of being read.Try a different medium or location. Escape the computer and use a pencil or a typewriter or a dictaphone: anything to free you from the frightening finality of a Word template.
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