Claim: No stage of the writing process, as fraught for writers as those first few months of uncertainty.
Reason 1: Writers do not like to be asked to describe their book before finishing it.
Reason 2: Writers often find it difficult to avoid temptations to share.
Backing:
"Because we’re unsure — about very nearly everything." (use of a commonly known belief)
"Because we’re running on faith and fumes."
Reason 3: Writers crave for validation to keep them going.
Reason 4: The inner critic says that you're not on the right track.
Backing:
"the I. C. will be rubbing our nose in the truth before the week is out: the work is as bad as we suspected it was." (use of a common human characteristic - doubt)
Reason 5: Writers are optimistic of the day, but people around do not know how to help.
Backing:
"If the well-meaning colleague doesn’t ask, she risks seeming unsupportive; ask, and she suffers the consequences: every syllable of her response will be studied and sifted with forensic care, every attempt at encouragement grimly accepted or politely dismissed, every stab at honesty received like a lance through the heart." (assertion of shared beliefs)
"leaves the unsuspecting participant only two possible pre-emptive moves" The first is to play for time, "Chances are it won’t work, but at least this way the blame is on the writer". Another is to "adamantly refuse to hear a word until the writer stops asking, at which point the coast is clear"
Reason 5: Writing isn't done with people, your vision is your own.
Reason 1: Writers do not like to be asked to describe their book before finishing it.
Reason 2: Writers often find it difficult to avoid temptations to share.
Backing:
"Because we’re unsure — about very nearly everything." (use of a commonly known belief)
"Because we’re running on faith and fumes."
Reason 3: Writers crave for validation to keep them going.
Reason 4: The inner critic says that you're not on the right track.
Backing:
"the I. C. will be rubbing our nose in the truth before the week is out: the work is as bad as we suspected it was." (use of a common human characteristic - doubt)
Reason 5: Writers are optimistic of the day, but people around do not know how to help.
Backing:
"If the well-meaning colleague doesn’t ask, she risks seeming unsupportive; ask, and she suffers the consequences: every syllable of her response will be studied and sifted with forensic care, every attempt at encouragement grimly accepted or politely dismissed, every stab at honesty received like a lance through the heart." (assertion of shared beliefs)
"leaves the unsuspecting participant only two possible pre-emptive moves" The first is to play for time, "Chances are it won’t work, but at least this way the blame is on the writer". Another is to "adamantly refuse to hear a word until the writer stops asking, at which point the coast is clear"
Reason 5: Writing isn't done with people, your vision is your own.
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