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Alcinda Cundiff's avatar

I don't remember reading anything else where I flip-flopped so often between deep recognition of having being in that state(s?) and WTF is this woman talking about? But it doesn't matter because I came away with a resolve to trust that state, those moments when lots of ideas, perceptions, etc, come together as insight that I want to share with others.

Buzzy Jackson's avatar

Ha. - thanks for sticking with me, Alcinda!

Kathy Callaway's avatar

I’m still wondering if I actually have a cat or not. Did I forget to feed it?

Buzzy Jackson's avatar

Haha only the cat knows for sure!

Jon A. Jackson's avatar

... and what about the unavoidable reality that a rough draft, no matter what the state of incompletion, exists in a state that can only be rejected by the author by shit-canning it in its entirety? And it may well be that, in fact, even then it can't be erased from the mind. You have to rewrite it, but where did it go? What happened to those scenes that you can't quite recall? And they say that some books write themselves. Hah!

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