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The Inner Writer

Film crews took Rowling back to the flat a few miles from Edinburgh where she overcame depression by writing first novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Depression hit Rowling when her first marriage to a television journalist broke down after just two years. She had moved to Portugal to teach English and gave birth to her first daughter Jessica.

From J.K. Rowling on Writing and Depression

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The Inner Writer – the psychology of writing and being a writer

Bunny – a Japanese cellphone novelist

For Japan’s cellphone novelists, proof of success is in the print
One teenager who wrote a three-volume novel on her phone has gone on to sell more than 110,000 paperback copies, grossing mo…

Writers and achievement: endurability and tenacity, not just talent

Author Dani Shapiro quotes from the essay “Writing in the Cold: The First Ten Years” by Ted Solotaroff, in which he comments about so many talented writers disappearing.
“It does…

Learning Writing – The Writers TeleSummit

NOTE – The last TeleSummit is over but you can still purchase recordings of the sessions.
Eric Maisel – Author, Creativity Coach and Co-Founder of TeleSummits.com
John Dillon & Viv…

The psychology of creativity: Norm Holland on the brain and literature

In his book Literature and the Brain, Professor Norman N. Holland details how we may respond so deeply in both creating and experiencing literature – novels, plays, poems, tv and movies –…

Natalie Goldberg on letting your inner creator have a say

Her first book, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, has sold more than a million copies in ten languages.
In an interview, Natalie Goldberg talked about writing to access your energ…

J.K. Rowling on Writing and Depression

A catastrophic marriage
Depression hit Rowling when her first marriage to a television journalist broke down after just two years.
She had moved to Portugal to teach English and gave birth to he…

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