The True Secret of Writing

I’ll tell you a terrible truth: I do not like dogs.

Human beings have a gap—between who we think we are and who we really are.

Including writing practice in your daily life cuts through repetitious, obsessive thinking. Writing down those scenarios, pouring out your immediate thoughts on the page, either wipes them out—they’re said, done, expressed—or helps you to make sense of them, integrating them into your synapses and muscles.