Novelist Jodi Picoult has some no-nonsense advice for writers who just can’t seem to get started. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Picoult Writing Advice”
If you’re having trouble getting going on a writing project, here’s some great writing advice.
From author Jody Picot, she says you can always edit a bad page; you can’t edit a blank page. Oh.
thats That’s true about everything, but yeah, I think you and I have talked about this, that we both feel like we can go with great confidence with knives and axes towards our own writing.
More than we can go toward a blank page. Like you and I are very comfortable hacking away at stuff that we’ve previously written, whereas writing on a blank page is much more difficult. Exactly. I think that’s just the kick in the tuchus that you need sometimes. You can’t edit a blank page.
You can fold it.
You can crumple it.
You can ignore it.
