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writing so hard – adrienne maree brown

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writing comes easily to me in that i write daily, and have since i learned the alphabet. i don’t really feel things fully, or understand things, until i have written them down. writing is still the hardest work i do – physically, emotionally, spiritually, politically. figuring out what needs to be written, what needs to be uplifted, how to write it, who to write to, how much i am willing to share and to change…and, always, when to write – it’s hard work. words are spells and invitations. they all exist, and we rearrange them over and over to say the truth. the ancestors i love left me a river of words, and i am conscious of being a small stream flowing into it, sometimes guiding others, bringing myself to an ocean. so. i just wrote for three weeks straight. on the surface of it, i finished two books. one nonfiction, on pleasure activism. one visionary fiction, a novel on grief and transformation in detroit. just under the surface, i edited an anthology that i’d been gathering for a yea

writing comes easily to me in that i write daily, and have since i learned the alphabet. i don’t really feel things fully, or understand things, until i have written them down. writing is still the hardest work i do – physically, emotionally, spiritually, politically. figuring out what needs to be written, what needs to be uplifted, how to write it, who to write to, how much i am willing to share and to change…and, always, when to write – it’s hard work. words are spells and invitations. they all exist, and we rearrange them over and over to say the truth. the anc

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