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‘I’m Creatively Blocked!’

Face your fears until you're shitting bricks. Then start building.

Heather Havrilesky
Apr 11, 2022
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Desert Abstraction (Bear Lake) (1931) by Georgia O’Keeffe

Dear Polly,

The fact that the only way I was able to write something today was when I saw your tweet “Looking for Ask Polly letters about feeling creatively blocked!” sums everything up quite well.

I started writing a book in 2011, got nowhere with it, and have had scenes from it rolling around my h…

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