What I Must Learn To Do

"And then I learned, most important, to write while not writing. Without jotting a word, I wrote all day long with my eyes and ears and mouth. I didn’t learn boundaries—my office space where I can think, versus my real life. It was all one life, one blur. In a way, because my actual time at the desk was so limited, I learned to write all the time—even in my sleep. And so when I got to the desk, I wrote madly. It all came fast."

- From the writer Julianna Baggott, who has written 16 books in 3 different genres

It seems as though the lesson that keeps getting impressed on me is to continue trying. To write even when I can't. To live even when I am uncertain if it is worth it. To hope even without knowing if it is within the realm of possibility.