There was a point while he was writing Fight Club where Chuck Palahniuk came to realise that the two characters – the narrator and Tyler – were the same. It wasn’t a twist he’d thought of before writing. It wasn’t a gimmick to string the reader along. He was writing a damning commentary on masculinity as he saw it in the mid-1990s.
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Read MoreIn 1994, Brian Eno was given a brief for a commissioned piece of music. You’ve probably heard it – the Window’s Start Up Sound.
Read MoreIn Jack Kerouac’s Belief & Technique for Modern Prose, he wrote many aphorisms for writing.
The key point for writer’s block is number twenty-two.
22. Don’t think of words when you stop but to see picture better
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