Worry About the Writing, Not About Being a Writer

If you could write a letter to your younger writing self, what would you say? Author Allison Amend has imagined and written such a letter. Here’s how she starts:

I see you worrying endlessly about your future, and I just wanted to write you a letter and reassure you that fifteen years from now you will still worry endlessly. But you will be worrying about the writing, rather than about being a writer.

Read the entire letter over at Glimmer Train.

Also, check out these other pieces from the latest bulletin:

The Political Lives of Characters by Siamak Vossoughi
Humming Fiction by Joshua Henkin

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