You CAN write a book! · Apr 9, 2026

Why Do You Write?

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The publishing industry is chaos right now. Sometimes the most useful thing you can do is go back to the simplest question: why do you write?

I’ve been watching Rooster, the new HBO Max show where Steve Carell plays a bestselling beach-read author who is, to put it gently, a complete walking disaster. The show gets funnier as it goes along. Stick with it past the first couple of episodes.

But there’s a scene early on where his writing class gets into the question. You know the one. It’s the bi…

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