Inspired by Geoff Dyer I came to boring Ubud to write. The universe had other plans | Brigid Delaney's diary

When I checked into the hotel, the ‘writing desk’ – the epicentre of my endeavour – was sawn in half. But that was not all

In Out of Sheer Rage, English writer Geoff Dyer set out to pen a biography of DH Lawrence and instead his process was derailed by procrastination and dissatisfaction. The book is a near perfect depiction of trying and failing to write a biography (although the book that Dyer did end up writing is brilliant, better than any straight-up Lawrence study that he should have been writing).

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