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How Emotional Residue Affects Your Writing

How Emotional Residue Affects Your Writing

The shadow writing space before you stepped in the door.

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Rose Ernst
Jul 04, 2019
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The shadow writing space before you stepped in the door.

Photo by Yannes Kiefer on Unsplash

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike. — Ralph Ellison, a quote from Writers at Work (1963) edited by George Plimpton

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