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Writer Interview with Marilinne Cooper

A lifelong lover of travel, mysteries and creative expression, Marilinne Cooper has always enjoyed the escapist pleasure of combining her passions in a good story.

A college degree in theater directing eventually transpired into a career as a copywriter, which in turn led, improbably, to nearly a decade as the Executive Director of the Women’s Rural Entrepreneurial Network (WREN). Throughout it all, her identity has been defined by a pursuit of travel to warmer climates and exotic places (see The Sun Never Sets blog). She lives in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and is also a freelance copywriting professional.

Her six mystery novels have been independently published on amazon.com. Her latest book, Snake Island, will be out in Fall 2016; a large portion of which was written at La Muse. For more info visit her website, or her author page at amazon.

How Do You Know You Are a Writer?

You probably have heard this answer a million times, but I have always known I was writer, from the time I could first put words together on paper and recreate the stories in my head. You know you are a writer when you go on vacation to the beach and what makes you feel as complete as sitting in the sun is working on your novel. You know you are a writer when you feel guilty that you have not written anything in a given day. You know you are a writer when your satisfaction comes vicariously through the lives of the characters you create. You know you are a writer when putting the right two words together gives you a better buzz than the best dark chocolate.

What is Creativity to You? What is your Creative Process?

Long before I ever heard of La Muse, I felt that creativity was my muse. I believe everyone is essentially creative – some people just need the right tools to tap into it. Finding new ways to look at old things. Brainstorming with different techniques. Coloring outside of the lines or on the wrong side of the page. Word association that wanders meanders hikes trails river rushing water spring to life … everything and anything that brings you to a new place is cricket in creativity.

What is Inspiration or Inspirational to you? How do you live an Inspired Life?

Since I retired in the beginning of the year, I have been living the life I’ve always imagined, putting myself into places of the world where I think I can be my best self.

How did you know you needed to come on a retreat? OR: What made you come to a Writers retreat?

Real life and responsibility gets in the way of writing no matter where or how you live your life. Coming to a place where my focus was working on the next novel made it my daily priority. La Muse is such a peaceful place in such a beautiful and awesomely remote location, it makes moving forward with your writing a probability rather than a possibility. It helps you realize that allowing yourself to be distracted is your choice, not your destiny.

Can you give us one word to describe your retreat?

Inspirational!

What’s been your eureka/transformative Muse moment?

April may be the most transformative month at La Muse, seasonally at least, when the cold brown and gray of the slopes become greener and leafier each day and every kind of flower known to northern-born humans blooms. It is a lot like watching your story leaf out and take shape.

My personal moment here was probably when I finally gave myself permission to go out and embrace the culture and countryside without feeling guilty that I hadn’t finished the chapter I was working on and to not feel like I had to meet anybody else’s standards of productivity but my own.

What is the difference between La Muse and a writing course to you?

If you are looking for instruction and critique, don’t come here. La Muse is like independent study – you have to make your own plan and stick to it and if you are not good at that, it won’t be beneficial to you. Bring your skills and hone them; there is learning by association and through unplanned discussion with other writers but nothing official. Although you will learn a lot from John during the drives back and forth to town!

How does one write while holding a full-time job?

Write when you can and don’t beat yourself up about it (easy to say, not so easy to do). Give yourself just one morning or evening a week that you dedicate to writing and chip away at it. Think about your story or plan your project when you wake up in the middle of the night worrying about work or when you are stuck in a car waiting to pick up your kids or in a really boring meeting. Write in your head over and over again until you can get it down “on paper.” And when it all gets to be too much, promise yourself you will do it when you retire and then get on with your life and stop guilt-tripping yourself!

What advice would you give to a young writer?

Just do it. Write as often as you can and in as many different ways as possible. Find your voice and don’t think it will always be the same voice all your life. Because it won’t.

What advice would you give a creative person thinking of coming to La Muse?

Be ready to give your full attention to your project. Have a good idea of what you want to do before you come so that you don’t feel like you are wasting your precious time here. And don’t be afraid to let it go for a while if you feel the need to go out and embrace the French culture and countryside. That is a super important part of being here and learning to love this place.

What was the one thing you didn’t pack that you wish you had?

A bottle of really good 100% agave reposado tequila! French tequila is rot gut! In the end, je suis americain and me gusta mi tequila!

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Writer Interview with Hadeesa Ramjee

Hadeesa Ramjee was born and works in Birmingham, England. She is a writer who was working on her first novel at La Muse.

Having recently decided to leave her Islamic faith, she has also just begun working on building a more constructive and tolerant discourse on the issues surrounding religion, identity, and mental health, particularly within eastern cultures. This is something she is doing through research, essays and creative writing pieces. She says it is an area that is very much lacking and she hopes that this work will raise awareness, in particular to help those people on similar personal journeys to her.

1) How Do You Know You Are a Writer?

I grew up with my nose constantly in a book. It was the thing I was known for by everyone who knew me, along with the embarrassing accidents that are caused when you have your head down when it really should be up. Like when you’re walking down the street, or trying to eat hot soup. I think it was natural then that I would pick up a pen and write myself. It became a way that I would work through my emotions, regardless of whether they were good or bad. Each time I put pen to paper it became my own private therapy session. There is just something so addictive about spinning words together and creating new worlds and new people, opening a blank page and drawing out the mysteries. Because it was such an integral, personal and natural part of my life, I didn’t really see myself as a Writer. I think there is a difference between knowing that you write, and knowing you are a Writer. I didn’t really share my work with many people, but there was one friend in particular who was allowed a key into my collection. The day she phoned me up and told me she felt like reading something of mine and enquired if I had written anything new, that was the day I knew I was a Writer.

2) What is Creativity to You? What is your Creative Process?

‘And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.’

This quote from Nietzsche is one of my absolute favourites, and is what comes to mind when I think of this question and when I think of Creativity. My Creative Process is through writing, but growing up, doing something creative like writing or drawing was always seen as a waste of time. It was just the culture I grew up in, and I had subconsciously internalised the belief that creative pursuits could never be something that could become a career or what I could spend most of my time on. It was that very Creativity that allowed me to break through the barriers, which introduced me to whole new ways of life and living. Suddenly Creativity was my little secret in my world that tried to stifle it. It was the quiet and calming companion that guided me through until I found the other people who shared this secret. Now, Creativity has become an old friend for me, and when I’m faced with situations that call for conformity or question my decisions, it peeps through and gives me the quiet, confident nod I need. And that’s all I need to carry on dancing.

3) What is Inspiration or Inspirational to you? How do you live an Inspired Life?

People. Always people. I have been lucky enough to experience some amazing experiences within Nature, alone and surrounded by the raw power it possesses. And truth be told I am more comfortable standing in a thunderstorm or looking out at the mountains than surrounded by a group of people. But the most Inspirational moments I can think of have come through the stories of people, be it reading or hearing about their lives, or picking up a book that they have written and being captivated by their words. I’ve always noticed that I am more inclined to write when I’ve read or heard something particularly beautiful. When I do, the words are easier to flow. There is a particular video on YouTube that I watch; it’s a compilation of videos taken from CCTV cameras around the world. In it there are numerous instances of unplanned and impulsive acts where human beings have come together to help each other, help perfect strangers, often putting themselves at risk. Where they have pushed vans stuck on the train tracks, where they have scaled walls to save those people who felt they could do nothing but jump, where they have lifted burning cars with their bare hands to save those trapped underneath. Whenever I feel disillusioned at people and the beauty they are capable of, I watch this one video and it moves me to tears each time, reminding me of how much Inspiration can come from the people around us.

4. How did you know you needed to come on a retreat? OR: What made you come to a Writers retreat?

When I booked onto the retreat I was at a very big turning point in my life. I genuinely thought I was closing a chapter and moving onto something completely new. I had quit my job not even a week before I arrived and wanted to commit to a life where I could spend most of it creating. I knew I had a writing piece that I was close to first draft and my gut told me that a retreat was what I needed to not only finish it, but also to have the space to create new ideas and explore possibilities. If there’s one thing I’ve learned it’s to always trust your gut. So I did, and I could not have been more thankful!

5. Can you give us one word to describe your retreat?

Wild!

6. What’s been your eureka/transformative Muse moment?

I think it was the last or second last time I climbed to the top of Le Roc and sat out looking at the sunset. I remember thinking about leaving in a few days and wondering why I wasn’t feeling more scared about this whole chasm of the unknown ahead of me, of what I was going to do when I got back. Normally such uncertainty would leave me petrified. But I remember a sense of calm wash over me. In that moment I knew, with a confidence I didn’t know I had, that a path would appear. There was a strong reaffirming of the fact there is nothing, literally nothing that you cannot do if you put your heart to it, even though it may scare you more than anything. Your mind really can be your own worst enemy, and is a bigger obstacle than any other person could ever be. Spending six weeks in the French mountains with nothing but your mind is a great way to learn that lesson! I was also introduced to Florence Shinn at La Muse and since then I’ve recited certain affirmations numerous times a day. I can’t help but say it really has done wonders, and this is coming from someone who was honestly quite sceptical! It gave new meaning to Bukowski’s words: ‘Life’s as kind as you let it be.’

7. What was the one thing you didn’t pack that you wish you had?

My parrot!

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Interview with Musician Richard Farrell

Richard Farrell is an Irish musician/producer and composer based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He released his debut album ‘Lights at Sea‘ in 2012 with his band Richard Farrell and The Last Tribe.

Born and bred on classical and blues music, he also draws from soul, funk and latin music, influenced by his many trips to New Orleans, Cuba and the South American continent. Richard is a singer foremost, but also an accomplished pianist and guitarist.

While at La Muse Richard put the final touches to writing and demoing his second album. He joined us back in mid-January for four and half weeks. You can read about his journey at La Muse on Clear Haze here and listen to some of the a cappella covers he recorded in the echoing hallways below and on the La Muse Youtube channel.

When did you realize you were a musician?

Music has always been a strong current in my life, stitched into my mind from the age of 6, when I started playing piano, but before then I remember humming and hitting anything to create some kind musical sound. I spent four years in St Patrick’s Cathedral Choir School in Dublin from the age of eight until twelve which laid the foundation for my core understanding of music which I have built on ever since.

What is Creativity to you? And: What is your Creative Process?

Creativity for me can be described as an emotional or spiritual purging. After and during the process of understanding matters deeply in one’s mind, we release energy that allows us to heal ourselves and others. For me I harness this in the form of melodies, lyrics and rhythms. This healing process is very powerful in some music as it rings true to our own lives, and allows us to connect and share the complexities of life’s magic and suffering.

What is Inspiration or Inspirational to you? How Do You Live an Inspired Life?

Truth and the passing of the message of love are inspiration to me. This can be a smile, a meal someone has prepared or a song… at the end of the day it is the intention of the message that really counts. By being able to notice these ‘ordinary’ or everyday qualities means I can live an inspired life, knowing other people feel the same way I do and their wish to attain the same qualities in life.

How Did You Know You Needed to Come on a Retreat? OR: What Made You Come To a Artists Retreat?

For many years I have traveled alone ( which I believe is very important) to find a place where music and words would flow out of me, almost without effort and I have found certain occasions where this would be true. But coming to La Muse instilled a strength in honing and mining my creative talents, giving me the space and environment for all of that to flourish. With Kerry and John at the helm, a beautiful house/room to work in, inspirational company to share the whole experience with and walks/landscapes that defy my expectations of beauty, I needed no more to know that this truly would bring the best out of me.

What’s Been Your Eureka/Transformative Muse Moment?

The space between working on my material has allowed for certain phrases and melodies to arise. There were particular moments when this happened, mostly on one of my walks through the valley, getting lost and uncovering some naturally beautiful spots. This allowed a stillness and clear water like quality to arise in me, giving my mind the threads to weave it’s creative yarn.

What was the one thing you didn’t pack that you wish you had?

A bass guitar.

Can You Give Us One Word to Describe Your Retreat?

Cleansing.

What do you believe La Muse can offer other musicians?

For all art forms, finding the space to exercise your creativity is a very difficult thing. At La Muse this comes very soon after entering the house. Never in my life have I mixed and lived with people who are as engaged as I am in their own different art forms. This ignites everybody to bounce each others very different creative processes off each other while allowing them to personally develop new ideas in a beautiful room or studio. La Muse offers many hidden gems for any musician, composer or producer looking to take his craft to the next level, especially in the area of acoustics.

Below is one of the acoustic recordings Richard made at La Muse. You can check out other ones on our Youtube channel.

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Writer Interview with Sherry Christie

American writer Sherry Christie

American writer Sherry Christie

Sherry Christie is a writer from Jonesport, Maine. She has been writing professionally all her life, first at a New York magazine, then at an Ohio advertising agency. Currently, as the owner of a financial copywriting firm, her objective is to help people make smarter financial decisions. In partnership with “money therapist” Olivia Mellan, she has written over 200 magazine articles for financial advisors, as well as Money Harmony, Overcoming Overspending, and three other books on money psychology.

However, writing fiction about first-century Rome is her first love. Over the course of seven retreats at La Muse she completed, revised, and polished her debut novel about Caligula’s Rome, Roma Amor, to be published in January 2016. She recently spent her eighth La Muse retreat working on a sequel.

1. How did you know you needed to come on a retreat?

‘Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul’ – then it’s time to get away from it all and go on retreat to work on something that’s purely joyful.

2. What is the difference between La Muse and a writing course to you?

A writing course can be a great way to learn mastery of craft from a practitioner. At La Muse, you have an opportunity to learn from yourself. The extended period of time—a week or more—allows you to play with ideas, structures, and formats without interference from your internal critic. You can use everything you know to create and inhabit a different world. I think a course can educate the left brain. But La Muse invigorates the right brain.

3. Can you give us one word to describe your retreat?

‘Away.’ Away from the restraints of everyday; away to a place of freedom.

4. What’s been your eureka/transformative Muse moment?

Toward the end of my very first retreat I looked up through the open French windows to the hills and sky, knowing I had done good work and would soon be returning to the guy I love, and I thought, ‘I am so happy.’

5. What was the one thing you didn’t pack that you wish you had?

Scratch paper to make notes.

6. How do you know you are a writer?

If you’re a writer, you can’t NOT write. Someone who says, ‘If I had time, I’d write a book,’ isn’t a writer. If they were, they’d have written one, no matter how long it took.

7. How does one write while holding a full-time job?

That’s tough. I tried earmarking every Friday for my own writing. Then I tried earmarking every forenoon. But being a freelancer, I’m somewhat at my clients’ mercy when it comes to deadlines. The only thing that works for me consistently is setting aside three weeks, telling my clients I’ll be out of the country, and coming to La Muse.

8. What is creativity to you? What is your creative process?

Creativity is loving to do what you do so much that you blow it up now and then, to make sure you never get tired of it.

9. What is inspiration or inspirational to you? How do you live an inspired life?

Harry Fish, the man with whom I’ve shared a life for 35 years, is my inspiration. He’s wise, sensible, fair, honest, kind, trustworthy, and loving. I want to be like him when I grow up.

10. What advice would you give to a young writer?

Join a critique group. You can learn a lot from having your work reviewed by other writers you admire. It can be even more valuable, though, to review and critique others who are on your own level. Flaws in their writing that jump out at you may be similar to what you yourself are doing without realizing it. By the same token, you’ll see what works well.

11. What advice would you give a creative person thinking of coming to La Muse?

Whatever kind of everyday work obligations you want to get away from, don’t bring any of them with you. Trust me, they’ll spoil the sense of freedom you need in order to focus on your own creative project.

12. As a returnee, what do you like best about La Muse?

My answer has to be John and Kerry, because they make everything else possible. Specifically, I love how they’ve revived the old manor house with its valley view; I love the bedrooms with their tall windows, and the communal kitchen where someone’s always making something; I love Labastide’s winding roads and forest trails; I love being able to speak French when I go to town and not having a telephone and feeling very much away from it all; I love getting to know the invariably terrific fellow Musers. Oh, and I love John’s knowhow about social media, and I love Kerry’s knits, and . . .

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Interview with Writer and Director Laurie Strickland

Laurie Strickland is an award-winning actress, singer, poet and producer/director, based in New York City and London. Her latest production, A New York Carol, Everyone’s Carol, presents the “original classic text as well as the humanitarian message of Charles Dickens’ beloved A Christmas Carol through a re-imagined presentation free of the conventional bonds of period and place to truly become Everyone’s Carol.”

Laurie was our 2015 November Wildcard Fellow. She was working on a play and screenplay about Charles Dickens and Urania Cottage, a place he created for fallen women.

1. How Do You Know You Are a Writer?

Well, it’s the first thing I ever did as a little girl. I would write poems. My grandmom was an English teacher on one side of the family and the other were farmers who never got to finish high school but loved learning and reading. Everyone else was an artist of some kind and while I have done different mediums writing was the first one. When I did not know what else to do, I would and still do, pick up a pen and face the blank page.

2. How Does one Become a Director, Actress and Writer?

Gosh anything to do with art of any sort is so inspiring to me and make my heart so full, I could answer these questions for pages!

So the short version is, after all this journey and grad school training and “school of life”, I feel it is so simple really….

“Be” it by “doing” it. Be it.

Make/create something and learn. Be a contribution. It’s never too late or early to dive in.

Create the life you want to create and be what you want to be. Pick up the pen and write, and the same with acting/directing/producing… create a production or pick up a script and start working on scenes. Be of service with what you love to do.

You can take classes and such, which is great but really, I am the same actor I was before I got training and directing, I have learned the most by doing it.

Believing in yourself, as cliché as that can sound, and owning your vision is key.

3. What is Creativity to you? What is your Creative Process?

Creativity is my favorite thing… and I feel that all of life is creative and artistic… the way we make a cup of tea, the way we love someone or paint a shutter… and then there is making art of some kind…

For me, creativity is deeply spiritual.

Each project and medium have there particulars for me… like when I am acting in a project or if I am directing something… but really, I always have and still do love to weave together art forms… so let’s say I am creating a film: I will create a visual inspiration board and find the right music that fits to write to..it’s poetry to me and it’s also a great deal about silence and listening… I find these days I love to have a lot of quiet space to create from.

I love to dig into a project and really riff… really not force it to be a product but be in the process and let it breathe and evolve. There is always time for shaping it later and editing.

4. What is Inspiration or Inspirational to you? How Do You Live an Inspired Life?

Life is inspiring to me.

When I am really consciously connected, I can be inspired walking down the street or in a fancy art gallery.

People inspire me as well. Each person is a universe, a canvas of sorts and I can learn from and be inspired by anything.

Anything can inspire me… “simple” or “little” things although I think everything is a miracle when I am connected to life and really present. Nature is always amazing, music, someone’s story, being of service, architecture and I love to travel… really getting into a city or country and discovering new things.

Sometimes just having a cup of coffee and writing in a coffee shop window is like an art gallery…

I feel very passionately about creating a life, a day at a time that is inspired, connected and true for me.

Some days that comes easier than others but in general I do. I love my life and feel it is a gift and a creation as well. And even if the light feels low some days, it is still there and anything is possible.

And breath… breath is where inspiration comes in for me and taking space to get still.

5. What Advice Would You Give to a Young Actor, Director, Writer?

‘To thine own self be true”. As a young actor, I would sometimes wait for folks to approve of me or tell me who I am and what I am creating has value. And I am very grateful for the amazing mentors I have had.

But, at some point I learned, sometimes the hard way, to trust my heart, my gut instinct and vision for something be it a character or a project, etc.

Trust yourself and you don’t have to fit in a box or define it all of the time. Like, when I was little, I used to make shows in the back yard… I would act in them, write them, paint the sets, produce them, create the music and cast them.. the whole deal.

Then I went to school and felt I had to pick one only. So I did that but actually, what I love most, is to create shows… film, TV, theatre and collaborate to weave together a tapestry of something.

So, full circle, my greatest “success” has come from doing what I love most and weaving it all together.

Trust yourself and enjoy each part of the journey and learning the craft.

6. How Did You Know You Needed to Come on a Retreat?

I had been feeling it for a long while… I have been working on a big project that I created with a wonderful team for the past four years, non-stop.

It grew so fast… we went from Harlem with an idea, to two countries and so much development work alongside the creative, long long days and while all a blessing, really felt my cup needed filling.

I usually try to take space as I can but I had known for a while that I truly needed some space to recharge and work on some other projects as well.

It’s a great story, how I found La Muse… I was in New York researching a new film I am creating called “Urania” and was up late one night researching for it and typed in Urania and up popped your website and the link to the room you have by the same name!

I also loved the founding story of La Muse, the beauty of the house, France, loved what you have created, the heart/philosophy of why you did and the freedom here to create and get still.

7. What Is the Difference Between La Muse and a Writing Course to You?

Most of all I love that La Muse is not a writing course and you have space to work on whatever you want.

It truly asks you to get with yourself and your brush, pen, paper, paints, music and so forth and create… wait, walk, rest, and so forth.

The name belies the spirit… the Muse will come if you give her time and space to inspire you however and whenever she does.

Courses and classes are great and they are everywhere. La Muse is very special and unique and if you have all that training, cool, here is a place you can apply your craft.

I am a huge fan of freedom myself and find that structure comes in another way this way…

8. Can You Give Us One Word to Describe Your Retreat?

Miraculous.

9. What was the one thing you didn’t pack that you wish you had?

Funny enough, truth is I have been so happy and fulfilled here I really discovered I need so little to be deeply happy.

10. What’s Been Your Eureka/Transformative Muse Moment?

There have been many transformative moments in my La Muse tapestry… including coming here in the first place… conversations with artists, sunsets and such…

But , I think sitting in NYC, a little teary thinking how much I would love to write this film called “Urania” in your “Urania” room and then seeing that manifest so easily and quickly blew me away.

Daily, I sit in there writing thinking wow, here I am writing the film in this room after dreaming about it… anything is possible. What a Eureka moment about vision and what is possible.

The walks are a close second… going to the source to get water always feels so special and metaphorical.

We come to the source to fill the well!

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How to Sell Your Art Online

We were recently talking about how to sell your art online with our American artist friend Tom Darnell who lives and paints down here.

Tom told us we should tell all our artists about the art expert and consultant Alan Bamberger. Artists hire Bamberger to review and make recommendations on how to improve the structure and functionality of their sites.

So, we looked him up and found his great website, which has loads of wonderful articles. Here’s a snippet summation of a long article he wrote on how to sell your art online:

  1. Use good clear detailed images of your art that load fast.

  2. Make sure all art that’s for sale is priced. Most people don’t like to ask prices and rather than ask, they leave. You can either have a price next to each individual work or you can do like the galleries do and have a price list at a separate location on your site. That way, dollar signs won’t intrude or interfere with people’s experience of your art.

  3. Provide plenty of contact information and encourage anyone with questions to ask. Answer all questions or inquiries fast.

  4. Provide clear instructions on how people can buy your art and how you’re going to get it to them.

  5. Make your art easy to buy and easy to pay for. Accept credit cards, sign up with a payment service like Paypal or Square, and so on. The more ways people can pay for your art, the more art you sell.

  6. Offer an approval period for buyers, say a week to ten days, where they’re allowed return your art for any reason should it turn out to be other than what they thought they were buying. Don’t worry; I’ve heard very few stories of people returning art.

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10 Rules for Writers by Zadie Smith

 

Just came across these 10 rules for writers in The Guardian given by Zadie Smith.

10 rules for writers by Zadie Smith
Sure most of you have an idea who Zadie Smith is. If not then: She’s written four novels, the most famous probably being White Teeth which got her a lot of press when it was released back in 2000. From England, she teaches creative writing at NYU, and in addition to novels she writes short stories and essays.

Here are her “rules for writers:”

  1. When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.
  2. When an adult, try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.
  3. Don’t romanticise your “vocation”. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no “writer’s lifestyle”. All that matters is what you leave on the page.
  4. Avoid your weaknesses. But do this without telling yourself that the things you can’t do aren’t worth doing. Don’t mask self-doubt with contempt.
  5. Leave a decent space of time between writing something and editing it.
  6. Avoid cliques, gangs, groups. The presence of a crowd won’t make your writing any better than it is.
  7. Work on a computer that is disconnected from the ­internet.
  8. Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
  9. Don’t confuse honours with achievement.
  10. Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.

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