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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.

I find a lot of writing happens when you're not actually at the computer. So I carry a notebook.

When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other times, though, it's like fishing.

I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.

I carry a notebook and write down things to do, and I write out thoughts and stuff like that.

I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.

Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.

I go through periods of not writing. Until there's something I can't find in the world that I need, so I write.

Sometimes when I'm stuck, I really do need that cup of tea, or that chocolate, or a break, or a walk, but in most cases what I actually need to do is make myself keep writing until it flows again.

You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.