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Cassandra Ellis's avatar

Cams recommended I read this after sharing about some adjacent things and so glad I did.

this line rings true for me from your 2013 past self: "It takes work to get to the work is what I'm saying."

all these past selves of ours are surely supporting our present selves and future selves in doing the work to get to the work

thank you for sharing both present and past

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Andrei Atanasov's avatar

Great, thoughtful issue. I’m in the same boat as you, if on a smaller scale. When lockdown started (March 2020), I was just starting to take writing seriously. I’d been writing for six months. I took workshops, and during the first year or Covid I wrote a lot, published a bunch of stories, went to workshops, read a few of books on craft, and I submitted a ton of stories. Every rejection hit me HARD. Then, work hit, and for almost a year I wrote zilch. It was so hard coming back to it and establishing a new habit that worked in my new circumstances, but I found that after that long break, something changed. I’m not as anxious as I used to be, and I think I don’t care as much. Everything feels more down-to-earth. But I sometimes long to return to that place of extreme productivity and excitement, if only for a little while.

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