I love Christmas, but I don’t love all the distractions from writing. Here’s what Stephen King wrote about interruptions, in On Writing:
“In truth, I’ve found that any day’s routine interruptions and distractions don’t much hurt a work in progress and may actually help it in some ways. It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster’s shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.”
I’m not sure if thinking about Christmas interruptions as grit is a good plan. Perhaps I could just call it a holiday. But I like to write… I get sad and lonely without it. Maybe it can be grit but I can remember the pearl. Perhaps I’ll wear pearls as a reminder.
Maureen
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