Tag: frustration
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Wait. Write for who?
When I’m tempted to say, “Don’t worry about other people, just write for yourself” to someone I always stop and bite my tongue. Here’s why: the encouragement aspect doesn’t cross the pronoun barrier intact. It doesn’t mean what I want it to mean. Writing for self is the ideal attitude when self-administered. “I write for myself,” I say, and […]
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What I don’t talk about.
I don’t talk much about hurting myself by “walking too fast” or “picking up a pencil the wrong way” because that’s my baseline, just as it’s my normal for unstructured social interaction to be a risky gamble. I might pay for attending a party with hours to days of shaky mental exhaustion or emotional swan dives, I might sprain my wrists stirring a […]
