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KJBoldon's avatar

One thing I like about writing is that moment where it goes from work to pleasure, where I've had to drag myself to my desk or the page, and then I just...fall into the work. Like wading into water it's cold, cold, then I dunk myself under and I'm good, I'm in it. Another is a pleasure of perspective--when I've written something before, and go back to it, and find, hey, that is pretty good. Or when I discover something I forgot I'd written, it's like a secret message from my past self.

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Emerson's avatar

When I write a joke about something awful that happened to me, and it connects, that's as close as I expect to get to alchemy.

Happy birthday!

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