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@EmilyMoranBarwick@mastodon.social
2025-05-21 01:51:16

Nothing I’m trying to write is "flowing"...it's all laborious.
I'm encouraged by "Your labor isn’t a sign of defeat" from @… wherein she quotes Verlyn Klinkenborg:
"if you accept that writing is hard work, And that’s what it feels like when you’re writing, Then everything is as it should be. Your labor is…

A screenshot of my full post (available in the link of this post). It reads (in part): 

"In this reading note, Mandy quotes from Verlyn Klinkenborg’s:

"...why not give up on the idea of “flow” and accept the basic truth about writing?

It’s hard work, and it’s been hard work for everyone all along. There’s good reason to believe this, apart from the fact that it’s true. If you think that writing—the act of composition—should flow, and it doesn’t, what are you likely to feel? Obstructed, defea…