Jane Trombley
Sep 8, 2018 · 1 min read

WF, thank you for such a fulsome, impassioned response! You wrote an article far more worthy of publication than in the “comments” section.

A meek argument, however, for the idea of “commitment” vs. “surrender”:

I focused on the “new” writer — who perhaps hasn’t developed the confidence to “surrender” to the process. I heartily agree that at some point you have to just lean into it. I think in starting out, however, developing that ‘writer’s muscle’ takes a real commitment, and x’ing off the calendar may help develop that muscle, not to mention the habit.

Jane Trombley

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People change and so do profiles. Still a pan-curious traveler and chronicler of life in poetry and in prose. Wiser than before and hopefully a bit funnier.