Our @A_Jay_Adler's latest at Substack is a lovely meditation to sit with if you're a writer who's been on a long and winding road with their prose.
This was a great salve of a read after my own Patreon post today.
The journey will look a little different for other #WritersOfCoSo, but that deep, gently awestruck, and ever-wondering feeling - a little like the protagonist at the end of John Williams' Stoner, perhaps? - will surely resonate with some here.
https://open.substack.com/pub/ajayadler/p/a-portrait-of-the-artist-from-a-young
I don't know if you've read Stoner, but I think you'd quite like it if not! It's the 20th century's Jude the Obscure: all about living with that spark of literary love in a world where few are able to do more than carry the ember forward in strange, small, but still deep and precious ways.
All best wishes, fellow traveller.
@MLClark I haven't. I started to look into him a little bit ago and then got distracted. Back to him now. But . . . I've written elsewhere of the influence of Jude the Obscure in my life, so even more interest now.
And to you . . .
@MLClark Very good of you to offer these words. And I read your Patreon post this morning, so I know. It's a commitment. It's who we are, and we keep finding a way.