On Writing
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.
— Octavia Butler
First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won’t. Habit is persistence in practice.
— Octavia Butler
Yes! So true. Inspiration is cheap and fleeting. Anyone can be inspired, it’s what you do with it that counts.
What an amazing writer she was. I reread the Earthseed novels a couple of years ago and found new insights my younger self had overlooked: https://www.umakrishnaswami.com/blog/rereading-earthseed-in-a-time-of-planetary-change
I’ve only read KINDRED but want to read more…
Yes!!!