Andrea Chapin
I deal with writer's block by reading. It’s often poetry—because the language starts working on me, and I become compelled by how words are used, the images, the rhythm and even the rhyme. That’s why it was so fun to use Shakespeare’s narrative poem “Venus and Adonis” in my novel The Tutor; when I got stuck, I went back to the Bard’s text and let it carry me to the next scene or the next thought.
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