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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
I established my first writing routine when I was 13. The school year had just ended, and I'd won a stack of books for being the best student in a number of subjects. The pile included several 60-leaved notebooks that I decided to fill with short stories.
- Evening
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wander around online, but until I hit my daily word count, I only leave my desk to make some tea, eat, or to answer the door. At 7 P.M., I give up and spend the rest of the evening catching up with the news.
- Commute
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I had a full-time job, I would write dialogue and sketch characters on my commute and during meetings. Now, I forsake showers and regular meals and stay at my desk for hours, taking breaks to drink tea and eat something sweet, usually cake.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Usually, by the time I hit 'save' before taking a nap, my word count has gone down, but the world I'm creating feels more tangible than it did before.
- Childless
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this idea that at the lowest rungs of the social ladder in an African family is a childless woman - and the lowest rung of all is a motherless child.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Having children does become tied to a sense of identity and our value as humans.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to think that most published writers, the ones I admired, had a muse, or a special connection to the universe, to nature, or to aliens - something inaccessible to me that caused their prose to flow onto the page, already perfect.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I started working on 'Stay With Me,' I thought it would take two years to complete the novel.
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- Nov 07, 2020