
S5 Ep43: Ayobami Adebayo, novelist
In Writing with Hattie Crisell
How to Write a Book
I'm really impressed with how painstaking that is. Do you at any point think god I'm so bored of looking at this book that I can't even see it straight anymore and do you ever reach that stage? Absolutely. It usually happens like at least two or three times before the book is published. And I mean what I do is I just take a break and then sometimes it's a month sometimes a line is a week. Try to work on something else or get immersed in like a really big novel. But yeah and this point closer to publication usually where I'm like I cannot read this again. Of course.
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