{"id":7457,"date":"2010-11-05T15:55:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-05T19:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=7457"},"modified":"2010-11-06T12:42:35","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T16:42:35","slug":"award-winning-novels-fighting-procrastination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/05\/award-winning-novels-fighting-procrastination\/","title":{"rendered":"Award-Winning Novels; Fighting Procrastination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/boyreadingnedanshutzsmall2-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/boyreadingnedanshutzsmall2-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/boyreadingnedanshutzsmall2.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><em>I was having this argument with my friend recently about award-winning novels.  I find them stodgy and inaccessible. She thinks I\u2019m not applying myself to the pages long enough to get it. In defense, I invoked a literary heavyweight\u2014Martin Amis. He was quoted a few weeks ago as saying, \u201cThere was a great fashion in the last century, and it\u2019s still with us, of the unenjoyable novel. And these are the novels which win prizes, because the committee thinks, \u2018Well it\u2019s not at all enjoyable, and it isn\u2019t funny, therefore it must be very serious.\u2019\u201d<br \/>\nShe tried to tell me that Amis has sour grapes from his Booker Prize <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themanbookerprize.com\/prize\/authors\/95\">near-miss<\/a> in the early nineties. We need someone to settle this.<\/em> \u2014Paul Hawkins<\/p>\n<p>It may have been sour grapes, but don\u2019t you think Amis is right? The worst is when the judges of literary prizes try to legislate from the bench\u2014flexing their \u201cmuscle\u201d by giving a prize to some book that nobody\u2019s ever heard of, or passing over a popular favorite because it\u2019s \u201ctoo obvious\u201d or \u201cdoesn\u2019t need it.\u201d As I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/22\/halloween-reads-seducing-a-writer\/\">wrote the other week<\/a>, when it comes to literary merit (or sex appeal) there is no such thing as too obvious. And most unfun novels are not much good. My heart sinks when I see a list of unknowns as finalists for a prize I care about. It is usually a case of committee work or telling people what they ought to like (and already know they don\u2019t).Then there are wonderful exceptions, like <em><a href=\"http:\/\/papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/04\/12\/the-one-that-got-away\/\">Tinkers<\/a><\/em>, a fine novel rescued from obscurity by the Pulitzer Prize. Or\u2014a very different case\u2014the most recent recipient of the Nobel, Mario Vargas Llosa, a writer who has been accused of many things, but never of being hard to read. <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><em>I am a terrible procrastinator. In order to avoid writing assignments, I clean, respond to e-mails sent months ago (which I neglected to reply to promptly because, well, <\/em>you know<em>), and watch hours of dubious television. Once I\u2019ve actually started, I find the writing process pretty painless\u2014even enjoyable. But I just can\u2019t bring myself to open that word document and start working until the very last minute. Any advice?<\/em> \u2014Laurie<\/p>\n<p>Are these assignments paying the rent? If so, then get cracking. The trick is to let yourself write badly\u2014as badly as you need to, in order to make your word count and your deadline. At least, that\u2019s what works for me. If these assignments come without a paycheck or a deadline, however, and if you find that you <em>keep<\/em> avoiding them, I think it\u2019s worth asking yourself why. Maybe you don\u2019t want to do them. Nothing feels better than walking away from a job you don\u2019t want to do. <\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it\u2019s just your style to do things at the last minute. If you can swing it, well, congratulations. In that case, my only advice is to forget about your work until you do it. In the meantime, enjoy those reruns!<\/p>\n<p><em>Have a question for <\/em>The Paris Review? <em><a href=\"mailto:advice@theparisreview.org\">E-mail<\/a> us.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was having this argument with my friend recently about award-winning novels. I find them stodgy and inaccessible. She thinks I\u2019m not applying myself to the pages long enough to get it. In defense, I invoked a literary heavyweight\u2014Martin Amis. 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