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Carving out a sustainable writing
lifestyle is very much equivalent to starting a
new career and job. The first introduction year deals
with self-doubts, not good enough ways of resonating,
thinking, getting to know the environment, meeting new
* people, figuring out who you are in this new role at this *
particular new workplace. The second year means that you
have done all the first-imes at work and you are more com-
fortable in your own work skin and work mode. You relax a
little bit more. And then another year goes by and another
and another until ten years pass without you realising it *
* and you couldn’t see what on Earth you were consumed
by and worried about all those years ago. This very much *
* the same process of trying to write, find your voice, find
who you are in the world of literate people. So, give it at *
* least ten years before you ever get to question your own
ability and capacity to create something absolutely and
* ridiculously marvellous. Not in your first beautiful *
* draft. The best advice you’ll ever get is to enjoy *
* the roller coaster because you can never go *
* back and undo it or redo it. All you can *
* do is to relish, savour and flavour *
* the turns, ups and downs. *
GONG Jae Ok 