(2003-04-24) Gibson Stops Blogging

Karlin Lillington reports that William Gibson is cancelling his blog. His comments: "I do know from doing it that it's not something I can do when I'm actually working. Somehow the ecology of writing novels wouldn't be able to exist if I'm in daily contact. The watched pot never boils." He adds: "I have to go do whatever it is I do, to find the next novel. Writing novels is pretty solitary, and blogging is very social." We discussed the ways in which blogging is helpful to the writing process, and he noted: "If I were really a novelist of ideas in the way some novelists are, it might well work (to keep blogging) - if I needed to work through political and philosophical ideas. But that's not how I think I work.

Full interview.