Saturday, February 2, 2019

Opening that vein.


Write. Write free-write. Ideas come. Eventually. Even stories that halt and get stuck. Like elevators. And stories about elevators. You get stuck. Get unstuck, or you’ll be stuck writing in the back of a steno-pad about how stuck you feel about your writing. Write to breathe. Write about anything. Breathe. Write. Itch your brain, even if it doesn’t make sense in the moment. There’s no joy unless you feel the pen in your hand and watch the ink flow onto paper as you breathe writing. Writing is life. You want to live. 
Coffee! I smell coffee. What a glorious scent. Even when you don’t want to consume it, at that moment. Because you’ll need to sleep, eventually. Don't get distracted. Work, write, coffee, sleep, type, write, think. Breathe! Write. This makes no sense, and yet you don’t care. You must write the way you must breathe.



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