<p>'Working on a book can be gruelling. The feeling that you’re writing into a void can spawn an imagined readership of crippling inner critics '</p>Working on a book can be gruelling. The feeling that you’re writing into a void can spawn an imagined readership of crippling inner critics — and make it harder to nurture the two qualities that a writer needs above all: self-discipline and self-belief.

'Working on a book can be gruelling. The feeling that you’re writing into a void can spawn an imagined readership of crippling inner critics 'Working on a book can be gruelling. The feeling that you’re writing into a void can spawn an imagined readership of crippling inner critics — and make it harder to nurture the two qualities that a writer needs above all: self-discipline and self-belief.

Lucasta Miller: Loneliness And The Writer

Short audio series where RLF writers explore topics around writing.

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Lucasta Miller: Loneliness And The Writer

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