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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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