When I read David Rakoff's latest book, Half Empty, perhaps no passage stood out quite like the author's description of a typical day's writing. Suffice to say, it's not a vocational endorsement that MFA programs will be citing in promotional brochures anytime soon.
A month or so later, during Wordstock, Rakoff sat down to talk. My first question arose naturally enough: Why do you write?
@paradiddle1 It also makes the crappiness and extensive amount of revisions I have to make to each blog post before publishing somewhat less depressing!
WpgRagReview 2 months ago
Totally awesome! As if we needed to hear that! Damn, but at least we can see the process is the same for a great writer like Rakoff. This makes my current draft of shit a bit more tolerable. Thanks for this!
paradiddle1 6 months ago