REBRIEF: are my desires even mine?
+ the struggle of writing routines
Welcome to debrief! This newsletter is on pause and will be sent out semimonthly while I finish writing my book. Please enjoy this writing and life update, as well as an essay from the archives. Thank you so much for reading—I can’t wait to be back in full force!
Book update: I am this close to being done with my second draft. One of the hardest things about writing a book for the first time is exactly that—it’s your first time. Going into it, I had no idea what my writing process would be like.
Will I be one of those writers who can beast out a near-primetime-ready first draft? (No.) Will I be one of those writers who can go on benders and then churn out hundreds of pages in a trance state? (Definitely not.) Will I be one of those writers who writes 2000 words every day? (LOL.)
It is only through the trial of writing that I can discern what my process for writing is—an infuriating concep…