Are must-read books also must-write books for the authors?
Did Tom Friedman feel an inexorable cosmic force compelling him to write A World is Flat? 🤔
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This message comes to us from the alternate reality where Friedman was aware of the existence of multiple Earths—only one of which was flat.
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Having lived with authors: entirely trite and silly ideas are still must-write, sometimes. I can only imagine how bad it is with something you feel is truly important.
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I think this is more true for some genres and types of writers than others. I’ve definitely met writers for whom a book was an optional extra or afterthought to action with a center of gravity elsewhere.
Politicians’ books are often like that for example.
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If you've locked onto a schema, writing is the about the only way to exorcise it.
Collins wrote 1000+ pages Sociology of Pholisophies just to use the schema he built in the first 100.
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