I'm a bit stubborn and I don’t like to admit when I’m wrong. The negative side of that is that even when I’m working on a draft, I’ll be reluctant to give the draft up. I would try and salvage what I had written. And it was only many years into writing that I realised that I needed to throw everything away and start from the beginning, and that’s just the way I have to write. There’s nothing that can be salvaged. When I throw away a draft the whole thing has to go. And that took me a long time to come to terms with. But once I started doing that, it still took me a long time and I still had many terrible drafts that I threw away, but I could see that I was getting closer to what I wanted.
Writing tips from our bestselling authors [Penguin Books UK, 15 October 2020]
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