Karl Ove’s Struggle

Iā€™m reading ā€˜Some Rain Must Fallā€™ by my fellow countryman and memoiristĀ  Karl Ove Knugsgaard at the moment.

It starts with his student year at the Writing Academy in Bergen. The same year I studied Graphic Design in Stavanger. This is the 5th book and his writing, which dazzled me from the start, hugely improves with each book. I feel like Iā€™m growing as a writer with him. I started with the first book in his ā€˜My Struggleā€™ series, which I donā€™t necessarily think have to be read in chronological order. I couldnā€™t get book 3 but didnā€™t feel I had missed anything when I read book 4, which was the book I read on The Captainā€™s Island.

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The Shitty First Draft

Donnaā€™s Book on Fire module on the Shitty First Draft really pissed me off.

I know that every time I have a strong emotion around something, especially the kind of resistance I felt against the Shitty First Draft lesson – thereā€™s something juicy in it for me to learn.

I had to give this lesson a lot of time to percolate in my mind before I arrived at my own truth.

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