Hi friends. People seemed to like the prescription part of last week’s email, so I’m going to try and do them more regularly. I will answer the questions I can. Please do not be frustrated if I cannot respond. It does not mean your writing and/or life is hopeless. It just means I do not have the answers or the experience to come up with any suggestions for you. Take a walk, have a glass of water, write in your journal. The answers might already be there anyway.
"That is perhaps one of the hardest parts of being a writer: allowing that time might be the answer to the problem." So true. Also one of the hardest parts of being human (for me at least).
I don't know if this is the right spot to post this comment but I wondered if you have any advice for ocd people like me who relentlessly rewrite the same story because it isn't perfect
and/or edit everything looking for such perfection in the language or flow or whatever that theres no life left in the story --stilted oblique strange and emotionless instead
It's sort of becomes an object that some thing alive
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"That is perhaps one of the hardest parts of being a writer: allowing that time might be the answer to the problem." So true. Also one of the hardest parts of being human (for me at least).
I don't know if this is the right spot to post this comment but I wondered if you have any advice for ocd people like me who relentlessly rewrite the same story because it isn't perfect
and/or edit everything looking for such perfection in the language or flow or whatever that theres no life left in the story --stilted oblique strange and emotionless instead
It's sort of becomes an object that some thing alive