How to Know When You’re Ready to Write

It’s half instinct, half necessity, and half strategy

Susan Orlean
Creators Hub
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4 min readFeb 2, 2022

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I think of myself as having two jobs. One is (to steal a term from the corporate toolbox) very outward-facing: It’s an exploratory…

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Susan Orlean
Creators Hub

Staff writer, The New Yorker. Author of The Library Book, The Orchid Thief, and more…Head of my very own Literati.com book club (join me!)