Be Like a Weed

[image error]The book, Writing Past Dark, by Bonnie Friedman has plenty of interesting things to chew on.  It’s not your typical book about writing.  This is more the book about the demons we wrestle with while writing.  While not writing.  In order to write, etc.

She talks about the way our writing can be strangled by too much self-awareness:

If, while writing, you must always be proving that you write well, the writing will suffer.”

If we pay too much attention to the fact that we’re writing, we’ll fuck...