And now for the hard part …

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.” — Stephen King’s “On Writing” I’ve been thinking about that quote a lot recently. Because if the idea of sitting down to write scares an author who seems to exhale written words, it makes sense that right now I am terrified. I’m about to begin an unpaid leave from the paper. This isn’t because I’m going to stop writing. It’s because I’m going to start. I’m taking this sabbatical to write a book. Just seeing that sentence on my computer screen scares me. I have a hard enough time piecing together 500 words...

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