When writing anything - fiction, poetry, memoir and so on - it's easy to get caught writing defensively.
What does this mean?
It means that instead of letting your deep, wise writerly-self and your intuition guide the rough messiness of your early drafts, you find yourself writing from a place of control. You keep an energetic distance from the writing; you try to control the narrative and the words, instead of letting them arise and you trying to capture them as faithfully as possible.
The problem with this way of writing is it obscures the truth, rather than reveals it.
When you drop your defenses, your own unique truth is allowed to shine through. Your words become a startling ray of light piercing the darkness.
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