Bethany
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Jo Baker:
I'm forever making the excuse that I don't have time to write. It's not that I haven't got a free hour here-or-there but that I feel the need to have a few concentrated hours in which I can be truly absorbed in my writing, and not just flitting in-and-out of it. How do you cope with having to write when you just don't feel motivated or in the 'right mood'?
Jo Baker
i'm lucky that nowadays I don't have to work, as well as work, if you see what i mean, and I know how difficult it is to fit creativity around everything else that there is going on in life. But if you can make it a treat for yourself, an indulgence, then you will get something written, at the very least. I do find habit is important though, so dropping in for an hour once a week wouldn't get much done for me. but set aside two hours - or even just an hour - most days - and you will see the work add up. Good luck with it!
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Barbara Schlichting
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Jo Baker:
I have had an English penpal for over fifty years, and she lives on the Isle of Wight. Last summer I spent two weeks with her and we traveled about to Baths and Stratford-Upon-Avon. She wouldn't drive. My question has nothing to do with writing. I'm curious, but does the younger generation drive? Chris will drive on the island but not off of it. What are your thoughts?
textual silence
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Jo Baker:
Does the appropriation of a person's life, Beckett (and I suppose his wife, Suzanne, for that matter), in order to produce a fictionalised biographical account of that life feel different to your previous engagement of adding narrative to existing fictional characters for your novel, Longbourn? More pressure/expectation? And just for fun: can you imagine your own life being tinkered with by a writer in the future?
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