Great reminder. There's a great quote from writer Steve Almond on this topic--"A writer's job is to outlast doubt." I think of this all the time.
I've read Steinbeck's Journal of a Novel, which are the letters he wrote to his editor (but really to himself) while he was writing East of Eden. I didn't know about Working Days but now I'll have to check it out. Reading Journal of a Novel (which I first discovered at a writer's workshop on the Oregon coast, staying in a writer-themed hotel, in the Steinbeck room) was one of the most comforting things I could have done as a writer. Steinbeck is neurotic and so insecure and just so incredibly relatable. Ah, yes, we all feel that. He spends a lot of time in Journal of a Novel worrying about his weight. And his family. It's lovely.
Adaptation is probably one of the more interesting options for ideas of writers and doubt.
Great reminder. There's a great quote from writer Steve Almond on this topic--"A writer's job is to outlast doubt." I think of this all the time.
I've read Steinbeck's Journal of a Novel, which are the letters he wrote to his editor (but really to himself) while he was writing East of Eden. I didn't know about Working Days but now I'll have to check it out. Reading Journal of a Novel (which I first discovered at a writer's workshop on the Oregon coast, staying in a writer-themed hotel, in the Steinbeck room) was one of the most comforting things I could have done as a writer. Steinbeck is neurotic and so insecure and just so incredibly relatable. Ah, yes, we all feel that. He spends a lot of time in Journal of a Novel worrying about his weight. And his family. It's lovely.
Hahaha that’s perfect! We think there are perfect people out there, but everyone is just lost as we are. So comforting. :)
Exactly.