sometimes it’s profoundly unavailable
william gibson on how the creative part of writing is sometimes profoundly available
I have to force myself to turn up every day, in case the writing also decides to. Often, it doesn’t choose to. There is more of that at the start of a book than later, mercifully. The book builds its own momentum, though each one has a different momentum. That momentum is what calls the shots, imposes the regimen.
The part of me that’s writing this, now, is utterly incapable of writing a novel. The part of me that just wrote a novel is profoundly unavailable, right now, and will remain so until the next time I have to go out and walk for miles, whistling for it, convinced its finally run away for good and all.
People don’t ordinarily meet the part of me that writes novels, and when they do, they must assume I’m not not doing very well. Which as a human being, right then, I’m not. In direct proportion to how well I might be doing, right then, as a novelist.
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