Matt Bell @mdbell79.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Had a great, easy writing day yesterday, a brutally hard one today. As I force myself to keep typing, Annie Dillard whispers: “Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.” 2749
Lawrence Coates📚🐦📚💙📚🖋️📚 @lwcoates.bsky.social · 18/06/2026There's always a gap between the bright ideal of the book you aspire to write and the one you finally produce. Do you know Milosz's poem "And Yet, the Books"? Books derive from human beings, flawed and compromised, but also from radiance, heights. 110
Selene Arkadia @selenearkadia.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Which is why I walk in with nearly nothing and let my characters tell me their stories, unfolding their mysteries to me as I write. The one novel I spent a good month heavily plotting and worldbuilding, I got so bored 2/3 through, I never finished and gave up on fiction. For years on end. 011
