Embrace the Unknown: On Trusting Your Daemon

Dear Living Dark reader,

Here is Chapter Eight of Writing at the Wellspring. Its subject is the heady and sometimes harrowing journey of writing and creating as a journey into the darkness of the unknown, where all you can see ahead is your next step on a dimly lit path. As it turns out, that single step is all you ever need to see. In fact, it’s all that you ever can see. Any belief to the contrary is self-delusion. Better get comfortable with writing and living into the dark.

The previous chapte...