Want To Finish Your Novel? Quit Blogging!

By Glynnis 

Granta asked some “highly effective people,” including book blogger Maud Newton, about their “web habits.” The best advice, maybe, came from author and occasional standup comedian A. L. Kennedy, whose newish novel Day is maybe the most depressing (but, you know, in a good way!) book I’ve ever read:”I don’t blog or Facebook. If I want to write, I’d rather do it to some kind of definable end.”