She thinks about her favorite Shirley Jackson quote: “As long as you write it away regularly, nothing can really hurt you.” This had always worked for her. Get hurt. Write your way through it. Death. Heartache. General malaise. Politics. First-world problems. Arguments with store clerks. Highway stress. Fears. Kid problems. Write and you shall be free. Write and the most unmanageable becomes manageable. She knows she should write about Dax and GDOG and the shed and the tree and the dolls and the hair. She knows she should climb those stairs and face the page. “Go up,” she says, but good gracious, she just can’t.
~ Kristin Bair O’Keeffe , Agatha Arch is Afraid of Everything
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