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S5 Ep48: Geoff Dyer, non-fiction writer and novelist
In Writing with Hattie Crisell
The Importance of Decompression
I think generally you can find your way through whichever way feels best you know in the moment but yeah which I think that's quite an encouraging thought really. One of the sort of weird bits of self discipline that I've needed to acquire is the capacity to not fall into despair complete despair during these long interludes when I'm not doing anything. For me there has to be this each book is is in a well it's often about something completely different to the previous one and crucially it has a form which is uniquely appropriate to that subject so I would almost go so far as to say this period of not doing anything is a necessary part of decompression as it were.
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