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How Much Invisible Work Goes into a Book?

How Much Invisible Work Goes into a Book?

Published Mar 5, 2023 Updated Mar 5, 2023 Culture
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How Much Invisible Work Goes into a Book?

Workshop Diary 10

 Translator: Austin Wagner

  

This is my final workshop diary entry for this series; soon I’ll ride off into the sunset. When I set out on this project, I told everyone about it: “it’ll be great, ten pieces I get to write about not writing.” I was obviously exaggerating, but still, I really didn’t work on anything longer during the process. I did a lot of thinking, and eventually decided not to launch into the series with a pre-prepared conception. I’m not good at planning months in advance, there’s no guarantee that what interests me in October will still interest me in February, and I didn’t want to get bored of the whole thing. Instead I left myself plenty of wiggle room so I could always work with whatever I was obsessing over at the time. And besides, thinking

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Andras verif

Andras Varga 2 years ago

Important article. In the usual discussions it seems that majority of the public is not aware (or always forgetting) the collaborative nature of books or even movies.

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