I have decided to pursue the 1K Words of Summer Challenge… three straight days of 1K words or more! From this AM’s just do it email.
I am pregnant. I am stuck, against my will but with my consent, in a liminal space between two concrete phases of my life: childfree and childed. And it strikes me how similar this feeling is to being in the big swampy middle of a writing project. Writers talk a lot about beginnings and endings, but 90% of our time is spent in this watery space of creation between nothingness and a completed world. We are gods shaping the clay.