Dec 23, 2010
How writing a book is like doing a jigsaw puzzle
Writing a book is like doing a huge jigsaw puzzle, unendurably slow at first, almost self-propelled at the end.
Actually, it’s more like doing a puzzle from a box in which several puzzles have been mixed. Starting out, you can’t tell whether a piece belongs to the puzzle at hand, or one you’ve already done, or will do in ten years, or will never do.
(via Alan Jacobs)
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So true!
I’ve been “working” on a fiction book for a couple of years now. Finally, I’m getting to the end. It seems to be writing itself at some points…
In fact, I think that was the plot of a Goosebumps book or two.
This is a truism.