How to Write When You Just Don’t Care

Gertrude Highland
Nov 4 · 2 min read
Caaaaaaaan do! (Source.)

I don’t want to write this.

I told myself I’d be accountable, and that means a daily entry to show the world that yes, I can do something I set my mind to, and yes, I can actually follow through with a task I’ve set for myself.

(“You talk like you’ve never been published,” my husband said to me when we took a walk the other day. “You’re in an anthology! You’re online! What…

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Gertrude Highland

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