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Monique Wellman's avatar

When I was much younger, I heard an author interviewed (I've long since forgotten her name and/or work) and she said one thing which stuck with me: she said that the older she got, and the more she wrote, the more difficult writing was for her, as she had reached a level where choosing every word, and crafting every sentence had become painstaking. Now that I actually am older, I absolutely relate. In a lot of ways, I miss the ability to simply express my ideas by mindlessly barfing up thousands of words of plain prose without consulting a thesaurus or obsessing over punctuation, for no better reason than I was able to express so many more ideas that way. Sometimes I think my path to becoming a better writer is to stop trying to write well.

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Sean Nordquist's avatar

I want to thank you for the writing mornings! They have been hugely helpful to me in getting my flow back. As I mentioned this morning, my 2025 is about Intentions. I also wrote about it on Monday on my Substack post!

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