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ON HAVING A STROKE WHILE BEING A WRITER (opens the original)
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On October 6th 2025, I wrote this: “I keep forgetting that telling stories to myself is what I most love doing. I’ve done it all my life because it makes me happy.“Sometimes (often?) I feel ridiculously guilty about it and do all sorts of mad useless things like working for money and doing housework (which I loathe). I sometimes deprive myself of stories out of sheer contrariness which always ends in a dry patch and the stories won’t come and the interstellar idea bats are roosting somewhere els
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