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Tuesday, November 28th, 2006 11:49 pm
By way of Elizabeth Bear who links to Will Shetterly, who interviews Stephen K Brust who said: Figure out what lies you need to tell yourself in order to produce your best work, then put lots of effort into believing them.


That's a problem, isn't it. Because belief is not my forte. I'm going to bed now, I'll think about it in the morning.
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 09:19 am (UTC)
I think it's actually "[...] Will Shetterly who excerpts from Spherical Time who interviews Brust".

But yeah.

OTOH, if the belief thing is really a problem, maybe there's ways to work around it. And/or maybe you don't need lies to produce your best work; there's nothing to say everyone does. I bet some people need to work out what truths they need to tell themselves; and I bet other people need to simply sit down and write and not worry about what they do or don't believe, true or otherwise.

And I feel rather certain Brust put in piece-of-advice #17 for a reason.