‘The Writers Afterlife’ Gets Straight to the Heart of Why We Write
It’s a novel every writer should read
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4 min readMar 9, 2022
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Why do we write? It’s a question every writer asks themselves, sometimes on a daily basis. Why, rather than subjecting ourselves to the torture of the blank page, don’t we instead take up scrapbooking or the bassoon or rabbit breeding? Surely becoming a rodeo clown or a blacksmith or an…