There is an image that I have been unable to get out of my head, my lovely and talented writing coach, Marnie Freedman, says that most writers just really want to write in a cave, and when they're done they want to place their work just outside the cave, where someone can come along and take it to the world and then they can just withdraw back inside. I feel exactly like this. All this social media is scary and requires so much work.
Any day of the week I either love or loathe my work intensely, and even when it is more loathe than love, I am blessed enough to be surrounded by people who always love it, no matter how terrible it is or how much it just isn't working, they think it's brilliant and want to hear more.
I need to remember that I am a very lucky girl. I need to remember that even if no one outside of my inner circle reads my work, just the practice of writing and sharing makes me a writer. I also need to remember to say Thank you. Thank you for being in my life and supporting me no matter what I do. Thank you for wanting to read the musings of my crazy mind. Thank you.
“A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
