(Photo by Michaela Stephen) Pre-COVID times can’t help but feel nostalgic; I’d always seen the writing process as occurring in tandem with others: a drink after a reading, discussions about writing as excavation. We learn about subconscious assumptions when we stumble over ourselves. The communal nature of writing is often dismissed because the labour seems solitary. However, writing as accretion requires vulnerable engagement.
(Photo by Michaela Stephen) Pre-COVID times can’t help but feel nostalgic; I’d always seen the writing process as occurring in tandem with others: a drink after a reading, discussions about writing as excavation. We learn about subconscious assumptions when we stumble over ourselves. The communal nature of writing is often dismissed because the labour seems solitary. However, writing as accretion requires vulnerable engagement.