Last year I wrote about the challenges of writing when you’ve experienced a dislocation—of needing to have a sense of who you are and where you’re coming from, as Emily Flake put it, before, as E.M. Forester put it, you see what it is you have to say. I did that, then the weeks went by, and once again I wasn’t writing, and on top of settling in to a new mindset I was also making mental lists of my excuses—getting a house set up, getting the kids to sleep, clicking through
I never doubted you for a second. <4