![]() Okay, it’s not quite as inspiring as Octavia Butler’s famous note-to-self, but then it serves a somewhat different purpose: it’s pretty good advice. You can certainly do very well for yourself with it. The Douglas Adams book The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. It’s better to have pages and pages of material to work with and off and maybe find an unexpected shape in that you can then craft and put to good use, rather than one manically reworked paragraph or sentence. But writing can be good. The guide recites a tale of how, during one of his readings of his poem four of the audience. Douglas Adams (11th March 1952 - 11th May 2001) was an English author, comic radio dramatist, and musician, best known as the author of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series. ![]() Give yourself time, you can come back and do it again in the light of what you discover about the story later on. Writing isn’t so bad really when you get through the worry. At least some of the time! (It’s hard.) That includes Douglas Adams, author of beloved cult classic and frequent late ’90s Bat Mitzvah theme The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, who once wrote this “General Note” to himself, apparently to be read and re-read when the going got tough: Let’s be honest: all writers sort of hate writing.
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