Answer the following questions on your blog site; based on the information you gathered from the video clips and the biographies. 4. What are some of the fears these highly successful writers have about writing? John Grisham thinks that the hardest part of writing is laying out the whole book and when he has to face the final dateline.
- Ian McEwan says that for him is to catch the reader´s interest otherwise his writing would be a failure.
- Margaret Atwood says that the most difficult issue is beginning to write and convincing herself it is going forward. (her book)
- Salman Rushdie says that the hardest part is having complete control on a given situation, though a lot of events affected him when he was writing so he needs to keep calm to produce a new book otherwise he can´t do what he is suppossed to be doing.
- Paul Auster fears life itself saying that life is unexpected.
5. What are some of the difficulties they have when they are writing?
Some say to be calm in order to write properly, others to work against tha final dateline, others facing boredom when writing a novel.
6. What are some of the positive aspects to writing?
Some of the positive aspects of writing is that it helps you to overcome your own personal fears or problems in real life. Experiencing enormous emotion and intellect. Another aspect is that a writer is always taking big risks.
7. Do you feel these authors enjoy being writers? Why?
They all enjoy being writers, they can´t imagine life without writing.
8. Is reading an important facet of writing? Why?
Yes, definetely it is an important facet of writing because you develop different skills.
9. In your opinion, what are the 3 most important things which will make your writing successful?
First of all to have something to say, to put pen to paper, to focus on what you want to say no matter what is going on outside your book, to be disciplined in order to spend most of the time laying out your book, to catch the interest of the public so as they keep on reading without leaving the book aside.
