Hello and happy Sunday!
Another week of travelling to beautiful Jordan, so another Grapevine short.
I read an interesting take on unpublished novels by unknown writers. It left me thinking a lot about the writing process when you’re not known or popular. When you haven’t even published one word. And yet some writers spend a lifetime perfecting a novel that never sees the light of day.
Sometimes, as is the case for our protagonist, their family would seek someone out to help them finalise the work.
Here we have an author who spent forty years writing a novel that he never finished, and then passed away. His wife handed the novel over to a writer in the form of a briefcase full of notes and loose pages, and asked the writer to finish it.
This article is written by him.
Other times, it could happen that the unfinished novel stays in the briefcase forever and no one ever reads or finishes writing it.
Is a Life Lived through Art Really Lived at All?
The same Walrus (photo source above) is asking the question of living a meaningful life through art: is it lived at all?
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