Not Writers Block After All---Was Re: Are we having fun?

[alice_loves_cats]

No: HPFGUIDX 80619

msbeadsley wrote:

> This is SO *#$%@!!! frustrating.  (Oh, no, sorry, not you, Wanda.)  I 
> *know* I read, less than a week ago, a line in a post-OoP interview 
> with JKR where she responded to a comment about its length with a 
> statement about having written it through writer's block; now, of 
> course, that I want to cite it, all I can find is denials that she's 
> ever *had* writer's block.  It's occurred to me that (please let me 
> not have gone 'round the bend) what I know I read *was* really there 
> and has since been excised; no, I'm not being paranoid (not very, 
> really), I just thought, after I stopped being able to find the 
> quote, that she must have been being *ironic* and that the quote was 
> removed since it really didn't come off at all that way in print.  
> (If you know where that came from, I beg you, let me know!)

Alice:

In the Royal Albert Hall interview, when the interviewer commented on
the size (or length) of the book, JKR said something like: And all
with writer's block, too! She then proceeded to say later in the same
interview that she HADN'T actually had writer's block at all. This
leads me to think she was joking at the beginning, or sarcastically
referring to some of the claims the press had made about her supposed
block. 

You can find the interview transcript at several locations, none of
which I can cite at the moment - just do a search, you'll get there.

Love, Alice