On Worry - Story Club with George Saunders
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I’m really loving the comments you all are posting. The honesty and positivity and generosity in there is, I feel, making this Story Club experience something unusual and special. THANK YOU. One common theme I’ve noticed in the comments (and in my own mind) is that…writers worry. We worry about everything. We feel we’re imposters, that we’re not doing it right, that we’re doing it for the wrong reasons, with a tainted mindset. Noting that our worry is paralyzing us, we worry about that. We have trouble starting and, once we do get started, our faith falters and we are convinced that we have…
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