It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.
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You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.
I see my writing as the process of looking at the usual, but from two steps to the side.
There are so many different things out there trying to hook our attention, we writers have to be very selective and make certain that it is coming from inside out, not outside in.
I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.
You can't look forward and backward at the same time.
We cannot look backwards. What we have to do is raise our heads, look forward, roll up our sleeves and work.
It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.
I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.
As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.
You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad thing.