A Writer Is a Gatherer of Bones

Katherine Taylor
Nov 2 · 1 min read
Photo by Jay Heike on Unsplash

A writer is a gatherer of bones.

Gather them as an anthropologist would. No shard too small. Every pebble worthy of being put into the bag.

You can’t be sure until cleaned if it is really bone or not.

Gather more than you think you need, more than you think you want. And when you have all those bones in a pile, you’ll have told yourself a story.

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Katherine Taylor

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Autistic. Disability rights advocate. Film enthusiast and critic. Short story author.

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