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When i was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.
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When I Was Growing Up, The Exam

Roddy Doyle
When i was growing up, the exam system didn't allow you to write fiction, so you never did.
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Growing Up Writing Fiction

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I write my first draft by hand, at least for fiction. for non-fiction, i write happily on a computer, but for fiction i write by hand, because i'm trying to achieve a kind of thoughtless state, or an unconscious instinctive state. i'm not reading what i write when i wrote. it's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. creating that way seems to generate the most interesting material for me to work with, though.
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I guess...on one hand, i spent way too much time watching science fiction and reading science fiction when i was growing up. but a part of it is i also never felt much of a connection to the world in which i lived while i was growing up, and so, oddly enough, i think i felt a lot more connected to the worlds that i read about in science fiction.
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Writing fiction is not a profession that leaves one well-disposed toward reading fiction. one starts out loving books and stories, and then one becomes jaded and increasingly hard to please. i read less and less fiction these days, finding the buzz and the joy i used to get from fiction in ever stranger works of non-fiction, or poetry.
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I haven't written a word of fiction since 2009. i have no desire to write fiction. i did what i did and it's done. there's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. there is another way entirely, amazed as i am to discover it at this late date.
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I write fiction longhand. that's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some reason. i don't think i would write it on a typewriter either. i write in a very blind gut instinctive way. it just doesn't feel right. there's a physical connection. and then in nonfiction that's not the case at all. i can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand.
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The secret to writing is just to write. write every day. never stop writing. write on every surface you see; write on people on the street. when the cops come to arrest you, write on the cops. write on the police car. write on the judge. i'm in jail forever now, and the prison cell walls are completely covered with my writing, and i keep writing on the writing i wrote. that's my method.
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