What I enjoyed about this piece is the reality we don’t live in ideal and perfect circumstances but fortunately neither does our writing have to as well. Thank you for this piece ❤
By Julie D. Lillis
Bed made and dishes washed, I stare at an unblinking white screen. I frittered away the morning, answering emails and writing far-away friends. I needed to do that, I told myself, just like I needed to bake the apple pie that now simmers in the oven. Sometimes I think I am a genius at procrastination. But, eventually, I am left with nothing to do but write.
My dad spent nearly 50 years as a journalist. His longtime editor at The Christian Science Monitor used to say, “The story doesn’t care.” As in, the story doesn’t care that you have writer’s block or are famished, that your sources haven’t called you back. The story just wants to be told.
I used to think that a real writer needed her own room to write in, that without a dedicated space, a writer could not write. I made my…
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