Caroline RothsteinVerified account

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.

And then eventually some other thing inside of me grabs a rope or a handle or something and tugs the rest of me forward towards the page and makes me look at it and start to get inside and deal with whatever it is that's making me afraid.

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,