If you’ve done any prowling around internet
circles, you’ve likely heard the bit of writing advice which boils down to (however
it is actually phrased) “Just sit down and write”, as if, through sheer willpower,
any and all obstacles keeping one’s WIP from being completed can be surmounted
by placing fingers to keys and writing. To this advice, I reply in the words of
Truman Capote: “That’s not writing, it’s typing”. To be fair, he said this to
mock writers like Jack Kerouac and others who, for whatever reason, were not up
to his snuff, but I think if we ignore this intention (death of the author, and
all that), it’s actually pretty accurate.
