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MEMBER BLOG TAG: pine manor college

Sunday, February 14, 2010 6:54AM
 
Groundnut Soup: Location, Location
Tags: laban carrick hill, sri lanka, ghana poetry project, pine manor college
 
Groundnut Soup
February 14, 2010

Location, Location, Location

As all writers know, writing is not like riding a bike. Every time you sit down to write, it feels like the first time. The same anxieties, the same doubts, the same indecisions that you had in the past happen again. It’s no wonder that so many talented and brilliant writers stop writing. I think it takes a kind of stubbornness and unwillingness to let go to be a writer. These traits are not necessarily healthy or admirable, but they are necessary to write. This is especially true when you haven’t written for a period of time. The more time that lapses between the last time you wrote and the next, the harder it becomes...
 
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