Not good enough, by Clifford Thurlow
leer en español Writers are haunted by the feeling that they’re not quite good enough. As soon as you compose a single sentence, doubt sets in. Does it need that adjective (probably not). Should it be two sentences, not one; more rhythmic, more alliterative? Less alliterative?Cyril Connolly, George Orwell’s biographer, wrote in his non-fiction ‘The Unquiet Grave’ a cautionary tale for writers unblessed with ‘the gift’ that they often fail to reach what potential they do have through a lack of commitment or motivation, from the hypnotic lure of distraction.Connolly on reading Orwell’s books set in Burma, Paris and Catalonia must have concluded that as a writer in troubled times – the rise of fascism in the 1930s – he was not quite good enough to add his voice to the struggle. It is f...