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A Calendar of Writerly Fears for Every Day of the Year
Published Jan 18, 2023
Updated Jan 18, 2023
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Workshop Diary 5
Translator: Austin Wagner
I fear the empty page.
I fear the first letter.
The first sentence.
The first paragraph.
Up until the last line I fear, no matter how many times I embark on a new story, that nothing will come together, I’ll just enter into the thick of the forest, into the ever more pervasive darkness, and never make it out. The search dogs will find my fungus-addled corpse.
I fear the things I write about interest only me.
I fear they interest me so much my footnotes will have footnotes.
I fear I won’t have space to think about anything else, I’ll forget birthdays, my taxes, leave my umbrella on the bus, and in the end, others will just shrug and ask: “But why was this so interesting?”
And I fear the other side of the coin even more.
That one
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