Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath.
From Michael Chabon
I have a deadline. I'm glad. I think that will help me get it done.
Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.
I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there.
So it was scary, but that's how it goes. To my great delight, I discovered that it did all belong.
As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place.
I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.
He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really hard trying to come up with something.
That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.
It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections.
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