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How do you deal with writer’s block?

Tahir Shah The answer for me is to pretend I am writing a letter to a friend. That seems to take the pressure off... because the block is due to pressure you put on yourself.
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Can you tell us on Goodreads anything about that series of books for young people you were working on a year ago?

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In one story Mulla Nasrudin says that one should not go to sleep till all the halwa that has been made during the day has been eaten. Can you comment on how to perceive the 'halwa' and to know when it has all been eaten -- or otherwise comment on this tale?

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Kevan Bowkett asked Tahir Shah:

I've just being reading Wilfred Thesiger's account of his journey among the Danakil/Afar, and it reminded me of your travels with them in "In Search of King Solomon's Mines."...... What was the most important thing you learnt in your Ethiopian journeys, and what helped you to learn it?

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