Just Quit

Anatoli Skurikhin: Worker at Kuzbass, 1933
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Sometimes I just feel like quitting. I just feel like I need to put down the pen and stop writing. Right in the middle of the current project. Right in the middle of whatever I am writing. Right in the middle of the current sentence. The feeling usually goes away, but there are times when it looms.

During those times when I feel like quitting, I think about the proverbial miner.

This miner just knows he is going t...