In the sequence of reading books by writers about writing1 I recently reread the book, “Novelist as a Vocation” by Haruki Murakami. He is one of my favorite writers, and I was fascinated to understand his writing process. This is not the first book where he explains his thoughts about his writing process, his other book “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running” had some brief moments on the topic....
I am stickler for reading writing books written by the writers themselves. I have read three of them, On writing by Stephen King, Writing Badly is Easy By Amitava Kumar and Novalist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami, along with the description of a writer’s day and other related stuff in the books and blogs by Tim Ferris.It’s fascinating to hear writers talk about the gruesome writing rituals they follow, the ways in which they developed their writing skills, and how they overcame numerous hardships to become masters of their craft....