Cinema cannot portray the real unglamorous creative process of writers

Evidence

Presumably to show the real-life process of careful filing, recycling and self-congratulatory smirking would alert the paying public to the fact that the creative process is no more glamorous than a job with the Gas Board. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 320

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle: why film always shows writers as demented typists, and how a truthful portrait of the writing room would actually look on screen.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how Mantel sketches people—here she sketches the cinema’s convention of the writer as shorthand. — connects to: Writers struggle with the physical act of writing unlike other professionals. — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 43
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 320