PREFACE: The Secret of Writing
Eileen Gunn
October, 1987. Armadillocon, then the hippest science fiction convention on the face of the earth. I ran into Bill Gibson.
“We have to talk,” he said. “I’ve discovered the secret of writing.”
Gibson is a master of the conversational hook.
We sat down. We got caught up. Someone came and dragged Bill off to opening ceremonies, of which he was an essential part. Then things moved faster and faster, and pretty soon the weekend was over.
Two weeks later, at home in Seattle, I answered the phone. It was Gibson. “I forgot to tell you the secret of writing,” he said.
“Okay,” I said. “What’s the secret of writing?”
A beat, for emphasis. Then: “You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.”
It was the most useful writing advice anyone has ever given me.
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