Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
-Mary Oliver
A couple nights ago a friend texted me a picture of her notebook—the date of the last time she wrote (January 26th) and then the current date underneath. She said, “sometimes it takes a month to come back to writing.” I sent raised hand and salsa dancing emojis (of course) and then “it’s the coming back that counts.” As soon as I wrote those words, I knew they were for me just as much as they were for her.
Tell me if this sounds familiar.
You say you're going to write/go for a walk/declutter your closet/grade papers/start that project/make dinner/do that scary-exciting thing, but when the time comes you talk yourself out of it because you’re tired/pissed off/stressed/overwhelmed/the moon is in retrograde/etc.
In my last post, I wrote about writing and not writing (or feeling like I’m not writing) and how a lot of what I write lives in my phone or notebook and how that feels kinda crappy.
When I was a teacher, I subscribed to the belief that kids should write far more than teachers could grade. As a writer, a similar belief holds true: I should be writing far more than what I put out in the world.
That being said, getting stuff out in the world is also important.
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