Austin Kleon - The Abyss and The Gulp
The Abyss and The GulpA zine about the chasms between researching and writing and writing and publishing.Note: My son Jules contributed the drawings to today’s zine. If you scroll to the end, there’s a PDF you can print out and fold into a booklet. Casey Cep brings this up in Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee:
Here’s the full quote from The Journalist and the Murderer:
Malcolm is speaking specifically of reporting, but this abyss is also present for all kinds of creative work. On any book I’ve worked on, for example, it’s always been easier to just keep researching the book instead of actually writing the book. Research becomes a method of procrastinating. And on the other side of actually getting the writing done, there is another abyss: Lethem describes this time in The Ecstasy of Influence: ... Subscribe to Austin Kleon to read the rest.Become a paying subscriber of Austin Kleon to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content. A subscription gets you:
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