“Simply putting my thoughts on paper means I have to know what my thoughts are.” That is the recurring paradox of writing for me. I try to remind myself regularly of this testimony from Flanneryx O’Connor: “I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don’t know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it all over again.” But somehow I forget, multiple times a week, and go back to waiting to figure out what I think and what I want to write *before* I start writing. 🫠
Good job Ruth...persisting through the horrors. Can you believe I used to *like* to write? For real.
“Simply putting my thoughts on paper means I have to know what my thoughts are.” That is the recurring paradox of writing for me. I try to remind myself regularly of this testimony from Flanneryx O’Connor: “I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don’t know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it all over again.” But somehow I forget, multiple times a week, and go back to waiting to figure out what I think and what I want to write *before* I start writing. 🫠
This whole thing is the whole problem.
Also, thank you for that meme I am stealing it and also going to say it all the time now.
So many shirts in our futures…