And then I start rewriting it, in successive waves."īorn in London in 1961, Self grew up in Hampstead Garden Suburb. "I'd aim to write, on a first draft, not a great amount any more, only about 1,200 words a day. "I'm not that good a typist," Self says incredulously. Which is a big stop on just slapping anything down and playing with it." Joan Didion once told an interviewer that she used to retype her whole draft every morning to get back in the rhythm. You don't revise as much, you just think more, because you know you're going to have to retype the entire fucking thing. ![]() Writing on a manual makes you slower in a good way, I think. Self, who prefers to write his fiction on a typewriter, adds that his daily word count is lower than it used to be, "partly because I shifted to the Imperial Good Companion, which is a slower machine, about four or five years ago.
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