The Blindboy Podcast Speaking to Patrick McCabe about writing, failure and creativity
Oct 10, 2023
Patrick McCabe, Booker prize nominated novelist, discusses writing, failure, and creativity. Topics include writer's block, ghosting by publishers, James Joyce and cinema, impact of environment on music, origins of country music in Ireland, and a clever hash smuggling technique in Limerick.
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Writer's Block Breakthrough
- Blindboy describes overcoming writer's block by rereading McCabe's The Butcher Boy.
- The book's prose rekindled his love for writing's playful freedom.
From Rejection to The Butcher Boy
- Patrick McCabe discusses his early writing struggles, including a 5-novel manuscript rejection.
- He threw it away, but two months later, The Butcher Boy emerged from this "nuclear waste".
Writer's Block is Temporary
- Remember, writer's block is temporary.
- Inspiration will return; stay open to it.