Another #amwriting thread:
Sometimes, especially when I'm on a deadline, and especially when I'm working with prose, my writing scares the shit out of me. I'm so afraid to get to the text and I push and push and push and push and run and run and run and run and avoid it.
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And then I start to remember what it feels like to be inside this particular piece or page or paragraph or sentence or series of words, and it's a little less scary and a little less daunting and even though I go back and forth between the less scary places for a bit longer,
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eventually I allow myself to live on the page. With my whole, holed and holy self. And it's a little less scary. A little less raw. And I remember that this is my job. The job that found me. That I signed up for and agreed to when I was a very little kid. So I can't really run.
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