Become Your Work’s Reader

Here’s some excellent writing advice from the author Zadie Smith.

She says, put your manuscript in a drawer until you become its reader rather than its writer.

And Grant, that makes such a difference, doesn’t it?

I mean, the corollary to that, the other advice is start that project early enough that you have time to put that thing in the drawer, right?

Right.

And so often that is not the case.

How many of us, raise your hands, wait until the last minute so you have no time to let the manuscript age like a good wine or cheese?

Huh.

If you’ve come across writing advice from somebody who really knows what they’re doing, we’d love to hear about it.

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