Novelist As a Vocation
by Cun Shang Chun Shu, Philip Gabriel, Ted Goossen · first published 2022
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on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024” ↗Haruki Murakami's "Novelist as a Vocation" has been inspiring for me. It's a memoir about his path as an author. I find that his discussions of topics such as writers block relevant to my technology work.
on “Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?” ↗…questions in good faith, I can point you to a very deep and well written counter argument to your stance. Among his 20 or so other books, The prolific Japanese Author Haruki Murakami has written a book: Novelist as a Vocation. I encourage you to read it in whole, as my attempts to summarize will only take it out of context and butcher it. However, I will say that Haruki lays out the personal opinion that for him consistency…
on “This Year I Will Write More” ↗…helped me finally take the plunge. This is obviously an old idea, and indeed I'm just copying a similar process to Haruki Murakami's. I definitely recommend his series of essays on being a novelist: Novelist as a Vocation (this really helped me). On to second draft now and moving from daily word count to number of chapters or paragraphs editited has helped as just a metric for pace. Doesn't mean it's quality writing,…
on “More people should write (2012)” ↗Currently reading "Novelist as a Vocation" (2022; https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/547926/novelist-as-...) by Haruki Murakami. He addresses this topic in his inimitable way.
on “1k True Fans (2008)” ↗…of his advice is to choose pursuits where you have a natural aptitude. Otherwise, there's too much friction. People enjoy being competent. Haruki Murakami describes a similar discovery in his memoir "Novelist as a Vocation." He didn't set out knowing he had talent for writing, he discovered it through consistent practice. Only by writing his first novel did he realize he might have aptitude for it. Talent wasn't something…
on “Talent” ↗