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Darcy Conroy's first career was spent turning some of Australia's best loved books (and some not so loved) into audio books for major publishers. Now, Darcy focuses on her own writing and uses her experience in publishing to wrangle her own team of editors, proofreaders and designers to publish them herself.

Darcy's debut novel, As Long As She Lives is out now in print and eBook.

Born in Philadelphia, USA, and raised in Melbourne, Australia, Darcy has been travelling since she was 10 months old and sometimes wonders if she's most at home as a stranger settling into a new city. She's lived in various cities in the USA, Australia, South Africa, Japan, Thailand, and New Zealand (if 2 blissful months escaping the Japanese Summer counts as having ...more

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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Darcy Conroy If I've been writing well and then find I'm struggling to continue, then inevitably I realise that I've taken a wrong turn somewhere (if I'm lucky 'in…moreIf I've been writing well and then find I'm struggling to continue, then inevitably I realise that I've taken a wrong turn somewhere (if I'm lucky 'inevitably' will be soon, though it's often not!) Once I make said realisation, I go back to the last choice I made for my characters (writing is all about choices) and consider a different path. I'll try writing through a change and usually one of them will inspire me and I'll take off again.
Mind you, I never delete or throw away anything, I always cut and paste it into a "bits'n'pieces" file in Scrivener or a note in Evernote where I'll be able to find it again - so often I've found that the scene I was writing was simply meant to be somewhere else. Writing can be spooky like that! (less)

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What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Darcy Conroy There is one piece of advice that I wish I'd heard when I was young, in fact I wish I'd had it played to me every single night under my pillow so that…moreThere is one piece of advice that I wish I'd heard when I was young, in fact I wish I'd had it played to me every single night under my pillow so that I'd really absorbed it as a basis for life, instead of perfectionism! It's from Ira Glass and is so well known now that it may seem cliche to some but it is truly one of the most important pieces of wisdom about learning any skill, not just writing. Whenever I spiral into perfectionist's paralysis I re-listen to it (via the wonderful video I've linked, too) and I'd share it with every person on the planet if I could.

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap.
For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you.
A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn’t have this special thing that we want it to have.
We all go through this.
And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I’ve ever met.
It’s gonna take awhile.
It’s normal to take awhile.
You’ve just gotta fight your way through.”
Ira Glass

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