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Yiyun Li in conversation with Manjula Martin, in the excellent book ‘Scratch’:pic.twitter.com/1sUCZgXlgd
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I finished Dune this morning. In the post-script Frank Herbert's son talks about how Dune took his father four years to research, four years to write and rewrite; how it took twenty rejections before the book found a willing publisher.
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I wrote about my own struggles with the baby genius myth back in 2017. In some ways, I think the grip of that ideal won't ever leave, and will probably continue to worsen with social media:https://twitter.com/visyap/status/874840253588279296?s=20 …
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But as I keep writing and thinking about craft, and career, and how I'd like to develop a writer, I try to shift my focus onto what matters more. Writing something that lasts. Writing stuff that matters deeply to me. Writing with the intention to have a long career...
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Writing with the goal of making the road slightly easier for other Filipino writers in the future, if I can aspire to that. Writing to see the worlds and characters I never got to as a kid. Writing so that I'm always proud of what I managed, despite its flaws and inadequacies.
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Writing so that, like DWJ, I can continue doing this until I physically can't anymore. So that I'm allowed to write the next book, and the next, because I have a lot of stories lurking in me that I think deserve to be shared.
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It's so hard to tell myself "it doesn't matter when it happens," because to me, it does. But I *can* try shift my attention awake from that constant ache, that uncertainty, to doing the work instead. To being in it for the long haul, and accepting my process while pushing myself.
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The part of this idea that I was really trying to draw strength from isn't that she was 36 when she published, though this is a comfort in some ways, even as I know it might be hurtful in others; it's that she started there, but kept at it until 2011.https://twitter.com/visyap/status/1209183028800417793?s=20 …
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FWIW, I hate that I think this way and put this pressure on myself, but I also want to recognize how real these feelings are: the desperation, feeling that there’s no time, that it’s not enough. Writers who start publishing early feel all this, too, despite knowing they’re lucky.
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Adding this tweet as I think it’s a beautiful thing to strive for, to hold in one’s heart as you work:https://twitter.com/visyap/status/1207451949844459520 …
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It's inspiring: her patience, stamina, and drive to keep attempting good stories.