I learned to be a writer while my life was in total chaos. Decades later, I have a beautiful office to work in, but I still do my best #writing typing hurriedly on subway trains, in taxi-cabs, and airport lounges.
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My CBC column on where I write is really a primer on HOW I write: what it takes to be able to write when you're sad, or anxious, or wracked with self-doubt.
Unquestionably the most important skill I've acquired as a writer.
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Unquestionably the most important skill I've acquired as a writer.
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"Even though there were days when the writing felt unbearably awful, and some when it felt like I was mainlining some kind of powdered genius and sweating it out through my fingertips..."
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"There was no relation between the way I felt about the words I was writing and their objective quality, assessed in the cold light of day at a safe distance from the day I wrote them. The biggest predictor of how I felt about my writing was how I felt about me."
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"If I was stressed, underslept, insecure, sad, hungry or hungover, my writing felt terrible. If I was brimming over with joy, the writing felt brilliant."
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