You Know About the Grief
It’s funny— I’m to be finding my way into writing about grief this month for a publication and yet I can not find words for what is happening right now. What I do have are some words about grief from times past, last year, when there was much grieving to be done then too.
To be very honest, I’ve been finding myself more self-conscious sharing my writing. This happens from time to time. When I started LOVE WHAT SURVIVES I was excited to just toss words into the wind, to see where they catch, but lately I’ve felt so muddy and murky.
I am hoping to have more capacity for writing in 2024— in fact I have to. A manuscript I’ve been working on for a decade has begun to move again. I pushed it just a little and wow it has started to move— almost too fast for me but I’m trying to trust. There is work with an editor and an agent in January, submission to a contest in February. A piece of it will be published in an anthology in February as well. For years I have wondered how to keep writing, keep working in the face of so much violence the world over, when what I am writing also wrestles with and gives langauge to violence, to the way it changes a body, changes all relationships. 2024 I will wonder the same and try.
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