HeyJaredWriting in Progress by R. O. Kwon
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A cardinal Korean rule (opens the original)
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Last fall, while I was a fellow at the American Library in Paris, I injured my shoulder during an intense rock-climbing session, and then for months I couldn’t so much as zip my own dress without pretty severe pain. Pretty severe—even now, my instinct is to downplay it, so let me be more precise: the pain ran high, it frequently brought me to tears, and occasionally it got so bad that I was writhing on the floor. Excruciating could be a relevant word. A few weeks ago, though, I got a long-awaite
Obsessing is the best part of writing (opens the original)
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I write to you after a tolerable writing day, which necessarily has me alarmed. For one thing, I start every writing session with the trepidation of a supplicant. It’s bad enough if I had a hard writing session the previous day, the kind of day when nothing went right and I doubt I wrote a single truthful thing: after that, I’m tired and discouraged before I’ve even started. But if my last writing session somehow felt, mirabile dictu, good, it’s all so much worse. Inevitably, what felt solid the
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