Nice piece summarising the dilemma writers face where you may feel damned when you write and damned when you don't. I can see ignoring the need to write happening for months, but years? Ugh! Still, I can't see how you can truly ignore it when it calls to you all the time.
I was just sending a tearful thank you voice note to my Aunt Treva because it is at her kitchen table last year when I was at my lowest and broken moment that I narrowed my eyes and said "I'm going to be a writer".
The room she gave to me and my daughter is where I was able to work my demons out on paper.
That I am now crafting a writer's career . . . I have my Demons and Shadows partly to thank.
I love what this prompt inspired. You have such clarity. My version was pure chaos.
Love the perspective. The agony of art. I love it. By the seat of my pants.
Sometimes writing is more torment than relief. I found your riff off the word, edifying. It allowed my brain to riff right along beside you, Kiki.
I felt this in my bones, Kiki. So relatable!
Nice piece summarising the dilemma writers face where you may feel damned when you write and damned when you don't. I can see ignoring the need to write happening for months, but years? Ugh! Still, I can't see how you can truly ignore it when it calls to you all the time.
I was just sending a tearful thank you voice note to my Aunt Treva because it is at her kitchen table last year when I was at my lowest and broken moment that I narrowed my eyes and said "I'm going to be a writer".
The room she gave to me and my daughter is where I was able to work my demons out on paper.
That I am now crafting a writer's career . . . I have my Demons and Shadows partly to thank.