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Lou Belle's avatar

Sometimes I am amazed at how the universe seems to work, delivering things to me at exactly the right time. I'm currently reading Wintering, and have felt equal parts awe and shame; awe in that your writing to me is akin to sitting on the couch with a hot chocolate, and shame that I feel I will never be able to achieve that same depth abd warmth with my own writing. To hear you say that you struggle with feeling good enough as a writer reminds me that most writers who care, who love their craft, must feel that way. It is the reminder that I DO care and therefore that writing matters to me, something I had been questioning. So thank you for being so honest.

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Caroline Donahue's avatar

I nodded yes through this whole thing. All of it, especially the second third being like dragging a corpse uphill. As I’m working on a murder mystery, this is even more apt as there is an actual fictional corpse involved.

I, too, feared my first time through that there wouldn’t be enough words and that was what separated “real” writers from the rest of us. Oh well — if we’d known how much more there was to it, we might never have started, and what a sad thing that would be.

First drafts as inventing the clay that we shape in later drafts is always how I’ve seen them-

what a treat to see that you hold that Image, too.

Thank you for such a boost today!

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