/lit/ - Literature

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Not the whole picture. Kafka went for long agonising stretches without writing. Woolf spent seven years on her first novel. Mann spent three hours every day writing and usually only produced about a page. Gass spent thirty years on The Tunnel. Flaubert was deliberately and pain-stakingly slow in his writing. Even a prodigiously fast writer like D.H. Lawrence spent two years on Sons and Lovers.

can we have a thread dedicated to the despair of writing? I want to be comforted that the greats suffered just like I do.

It really is /r9k/ the book