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Roxane Gay said at the #NationalBookAwards that writers have an obligation to write about times like these. One of my besties and I were working on a book when Bush took us to war and we both veered off to write about it and then we got cancer and I did a book about that instead.
Life overtakes art all the time. You can never prepare for it. I was mid-way through a novel about child abduction and women's losses when I was paralyzed and I haven't stopped being shell-shocked long enough to go back to that because I want to write about paralysis but can't.
Helluva metaphor. Except I am living it. I want to write about having the same view out the same window for 4yrs and that today is day 1,565 of MY quarantine. I thought that would make THIS quarantine easier. It did not.
A lot to take in.
A lot to take in.
