In this episode I'm talking with Antonia about the squishier side of creativity–the thoughts, ideas, and attitudes that affect your work, even if you're not fully conscious of it, including:
- The part of the writing process that Antonia relishes
- The specific point in the book-writing process where Antonia focuses on making her sentences pretty
- How she only kept “a few paragraphs” from the first draft of her second novel (!!)
- Adapting to the public speaking portion of being a writer
- The thing her graduate school professor told her when she was halfway through writing her first novel and having a crisis of confidence
- The two things that can happen after her inner critic has told her the stuff she’s writing is no good
- How she views her first novel, looking back
- The “toxic narrative” about how you have to suffer for your art
- Continually working to be OK with resting (especially as an about-to-be mother)
- Antonia’s plug for therapy
For full show notes with links to everything we discuss, plus bonus photos!, visit katehanley.substack.com.
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