Really good writing advice from Slavoj Žižek

How to make writing disappear!

Welcome to the latest issue of Subtle Maneuvers. Previously: Joanna Hogg’s art of perseverance.

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Slavoj Žižek (b. 1949)

Have I mentioned that I’m really stuck on my new book project? Yes, still! But, last week, I ran across a writing strategy on Twitter that may, I think, I hope, be spurring a breakthrough.

It appears in a several-year-old, 52-second-long video of the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek shared by a now-suspended account of writer memes. (Sometimes Twitter is wonderful.) Here’s the clip:

If you don’t want to open the video, here’s what Žižek says: