Ask the Author: Tony Page
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Tony Page
I find this a very interesting question as I never suffered from writer's block while writing previous books and articles, until recently while I was writing Secret Box.
Chapter 10 of the book is called Taboo, and this word gives a clue to what I was up against. This chapter describes my experience of writer's block and how I overcame it. I went through many drafts, figuring which feedback I would and wouldn't listen to, self-authorising myself while also experimenting wildly with changing the structure, the tense and the voice.
What's your experience?
Chapter 10 of the book is called Taboo, and this word gives a clue to what I was up against. This chapter describes my experience of writer's block and how I overcame it. I went through many drafts, figuring which feedback I would and wouldn't listen to, self-authorising myself while also experimenting wildly with changing the structure, the tense and the voice.
What's your experience?
Tony Page
There's an inner voice that's easy to ignore. I wake up dreamily many mornings with half-formed ideas that I feel compelled to write down and in some cases to take further. Secret Box is about a quest that arose first in this way as a vague feeling that I needed to break a silence and to answer some nagging questions which until then had been rather convenient to ignore.
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