Junot Diaz

My favorite article between Lamott, King, and Diaz would be Diaz's "Becoming a Writer." In his passage, Diaz explains a story of when he was writing a novel. His struggles represented for me a long-term, extreme version of writer's block. He started out good and had 75 pages of "pretty damn cool" material. This guy took ten years to write his novel; that's a long time! It just shows that good writers will often struggle a lot before producing good work. In a weird way this inspires me to never give up on my work because I have an example of someone who didn't and is famous for it.