Hey Veeky Forums, I'm half-Japanese but was raised in America...

Hey Veeky Forums, I'm half-Japanese but was raised in America. My paternal grandfather recently died and left our family a cabin in his will which is located just outside of Oshu in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. My parents have no use for it so I've decided to live there in 2018 to focus on my writing.

Has anybody here done something similar?

What tips do you have?

Pic related: it looks similar to this.

Also: do you know any other well-known writers who spent a period of their lives living alone without a job in order to focus on their art?

>Wittgenstein
>Pamuk
>Salinger
>Knausgaard
>Carver
>McCarthy
>Dick
>Dickinson
>DeLillo

Which half? Do you have one squinty eye and one normal one? Or maybe you're white with a small penis?

>paternal

My father is Japanese, he came here to study geography in the 80's and ended up staying and getting himself an American wife.

do you go to uni in vermont, by change? I know someone in the exact same situation.

are you gonna write walden pond?

so deep. i am impressed please use my sister

Dostoevsky?

He spent a long time in siberia, I bet if he wasn't writing manuscripts he was atleast thinking of ideas/themes he wanted to explore

Nah.

I like Thoreau, yeah. Your sister can tag along for free if she's willing to be my concubine.

You'll certainly be getting away from it all in Iwate. You're going to have to really try to ingratiate yourself with the local villagers.

I'm mad jelly. I'm planning on buying a cabin up in Iwate or Aomori myself actually, but that's a longterm goal. I want to go on writing retreats during the holidays. Until then I'm stuck with the hustle and bustle of Chiba.

I've written a few novels and seclusion is the way to do it. Work on the aspects of writing that you can do now while distracted, like plotting, taking notes, researching(!), gathering vocabulary and reference, thumbnail sketches of chapters, logline, treatment, act structure, maybe some roughing, etc. You don't want to go into it with just a blank page. Maybe even try to finish a rough draft first and use the seclusion to edit, but you can do it with notes and sketches, and the seclusion would help a rough draft along immensely.

>any other well-known writers
>other

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I forgot to mention Mishima.