What Nourishes Your Writing Ecosystem?
On the value of understanding the kind of ecosystem that will support and sustain the flourishing of our lives, on and off the page.
On the value of understanding the kind of ecosystem that will support and sustain the flourishing of our lives, on and off the page.
It turns out all I want to find in literature, whether I write or read it, is a little piece of myself.
When my students finished a draft, all I wanted them to do was sit inside of it for longer than was comfortable. To acknowledge and celebrate what they’d accomplished.
Despite how fruitless both nursing and writing can feel, I choose to engage with both.
I thought I had to make myself smaller, quieter, in order to survive.
It wasn’t a matter of finding my voice, but listening to it. It had been there all along.
“Was I replacing one language with another, one way of communicating with another?”
“To risk something real as a writer is to risk making a fool of oneself.”
“It meant not constantly trying to get readers to feel pity for my characters, which was what I’d been doing for way too long.”
“In his attempt to make something balanced, measured, conventionally well-made, the writer is defeated from the start.”