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reading the page, a gnat flew aggressively into my neck crease.

#shameless #nature #literacy #JoyWilliams

Re: Writer’s Block. Perhaps more should have it. Perhaps the disease, the dilemma, the affliction is trying to tell the writer something. Much that is being produced is unnecessary, indulgent. When the sincerity, the weird naïveté and enchanted stupor of writing leaves the host—the writer—one can only pray for their return, their reintegration.

~ Joy Williams

slip:4a1300.

https://constantine.name/2023/10/14/writers-block/

#Quotes #OnWriting #7ForSunday #JoyWilliams

@WorriedWart61 thanks, and again I'm happy that at least the first call #JoyWilliams worked out for you.

Reading #JoyWilliams #ShortStories: a lesson in how to write the strange and capture human irrationality.
Technique 1: write an incoherent conversation that makes sense from moment to moment.